Philip Gilbert Hamerton Quotes
Thackeray and Balzac will make it possible for our descendants to live over again the England and France of to-day. Seen in this light, the novelist has a higher office than merely and amuse his contemporaries.
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I feel like I want to and have to do everything once.
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If you say something that undermines the stability of the country, then you have to be held accountable.
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My interior is very, very dense - Proustian-looking, sort of Henry James. The walls are covered in pictures, and I transformed the big drawing room into a library lined with books.
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I have a family to support. And I'm not always going to be doing exactly what I want to do.
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I think that a lot of women that know they're going to be part of history somehow decide to have a character to be remembered by.
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Shakespeare's villains are fabulous because none of them know that they are villains. Well, sometimes they do.
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I'm excited that I get to do what I love, and I'm benefiting through projects that speak to me.
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The last episode of Dallas was in '1991.' Unfortunately, it was a terrible episode to end the show on: it was a sort of 'It's a Wonderful Life' with Larry as the Jimmy Stewart character. In that episode, I was an ineffectual-schlep kind of brother, who got divorced three or four times and was a Las Vegas reject.
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I let characters be human and flawed and relatable. When we do things that aren't that great, we can understand it.
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Humility is the gateway into the grace and the favor of God.
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Let us unite the world through the compassion for our children.
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It was really impossible to break through in Russia. We couldn't buy any balls. We really didn't have any courts, no rackets, nothing. And no people to practice with.
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I run a solid 4-6 miles at a time, and over the last year two years I've gotten really into SoulCycle. It's sort of an evolved form of spinning.
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A spirit of innovation is generally the result of a selfish temper and confined views. People will not look forward to posterity, who never look backward to their ancestors.
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Funding for the original manned Voyager Mars Program was scratched in 1968, before humans had gotten out of Low Earth Orbit. Mid-'60s plans for a Venus fly-by with astronauts actually flying by it met the same fate.
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I feel like I'm not the greatest general manager in the history of general managers, but I do OK, and I'm learning as I go. I try to just do my best with it.
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There's an awful lot of terrible television which I could do, but I mostly stick to Have I Got News for You.
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I decided to build a studio in my house. We built it in my basement kitchen. I had the drummer up by the fish tank. I was in the toilet singing. The bass player was out by the shelves in the living room, and the guitarist was on the couch by the telly.
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De Lubac discusses an atheism which means to suppress this searching, he says, 'even including the problem as to what is responsible for the birth of God in human consciousness.'
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Having been connected with industry during my entire life, it seems eminently proper that I should turn back, in part, the proceeds of that activity with the hope of promoting a broader as well as a better understanding of the economic principles and national policies which have characterized American enterprise down through the years.
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This was released I think in February and so it is a great deal of fuss being made, it hasn't in fact been given public release, it was released in February ...
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You go into any recording studio in the world, and you see candles, lights, and that Apple light from a Mac.
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Thackeray and Balzac will make it possible for our descendants to live over again the England and France of to-day. Seen in this light, the novelist has a higher office than merely and amuse his contemporaries.
