Terence
Terence
Publius Terentius Afer, better known in English as Terence, was a playwright of the Roman Republic, of North African descent. His comedies were performed for the first time around 170–160 BC. Terentius Lucanus, a Roman senator, brought Terence to Rome as a slave, educated him and later on, impressed by his abilities, freed him. Terence apparently died young, probably in Greece or on his way back to Rome. All of the six plays Terence wrote have survived...
NationalityRoman
ProfessionWriter
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As a writer, I've tried to avoid strong opinions about morality. You just want to present things as they are and let the viewer come to their own conclusion.
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It used to be that you had to do a certain number of episodes to hit syndication in order to try to keep a show on, because it's important to the network because it sells good commercial time. That's really not how HBO does things.
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In the case of Elektra I really wasn't sure I could pull it off. There were so many intellectual leaps. My character, Stick, is blind, but he can see better than most people. So I had trouble kind of finding the logic.
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I live up at about the 2000 feet level on a five acre piece of forest that I built a small house on.
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In fact, I think when we carry out a complete analysis of time, I think what we're going to discover is that like matter, time is composed of elemental, discrete types.
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What harsh judges fathers are to all young men!
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I am a human being; nothing human can be alien to me.
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Perhaps believing in good design is like believing in God, it makes you an optimist.
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How often things occur by mere chance which we dared not even hope for.
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She ne'er was really charming till she died
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He makes a great mistake... who supposes that authority is firmer or better established when it is founded by force than that which is welded by affection.
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There is a demand in these days for men who can make wrong appear right.
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Human nature is so constituted, that all see and judge better in the affairs of other men than in their own.
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I am a man, and whatever concerns humanity is of interest to me.