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Ancient Rome was as confident of the immutability of its world and the continual expansion and improvement of the human lot as we are today.

~Arthur Erickson

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My mother's father taught English literature. When I was about ten or eleven, I could recite Macaulay's 'Lays of Ancient Rome.' While other kids were playing pedestrian war games, I'd be Horatius keeping the bridge.

~Bernie Taupin

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I write about times and places I would visit in a time machine, like ancient Rome or the Wild West.

~Caroline Lawrence

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But, ancient Greece and ancient Rome - people did not happen to believe that creativity came from human beings back then, OK? People believed that creativity was this divine attendant spirit that came to human beings from some distant and unknowable source, for distant and unknowable reasons.

~Elizabeth Gilbert

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In 'Roma,' I wanted to get across the idea that underneath Rome today is ancient Rome. So close. I am always conscious of that, and it thrills me. Imagine being in a traffic jam at the Coliseum! Rome is the most wonderful movie set in the world... As was the case with many of my film ideas, it was inspired by a dream.

~Federico Fellini

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