"No one is better born than another, unless they are born with better abilities and a more amiable disposition."

-- Seneca the Elder

#Birth Quotes #Disposition Quotes #Born Quotes

“If a movie isn't released, it's one thing, but if you know it will be, it's nice to have closure and see it come out.”
“Unfortunately, a lot of people are stupid. They take drugs. They get drunk and do all the wrong things in life. I just played it straight.”
“By all means listen to other people's advice, but when in doubt go with your gut instinct.”
“Public opinion, - a tyrant, sitting in the dark, wrapt up in mystification and vague terrors of obscurity; deriving power no one knows from whom ... - but irresistible in its power to quell thought, to repress action, to silence conviction ...”
“The research reading I did for Fascination and Liberation included some Jung, and I noticed that he had a similar impression of Buddhism to myself, that, if it weren't for certain qualifying clauses, the philosophy would be downright suicidal.”
“I don't think I responded very well to the sudden celebrity, the sudden fame, and the loss of privacy.”

Source : "With Friends Like These". Interview with Warren Littlefield, www.vanityfair.com. May 2012.
“It is not that Shakespeare's art is in technicolor and fancy, and that real life is black and white and tedious. The life that Shakespeare was living was the only life he had, and he had to use it to create what he was doing.”
“Shane Watson seems to have recovered very well from his hamstring injury.”

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