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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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 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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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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Everyone dreams of living in Paris.
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I drink a gallon of water a day.
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Cue actor platitude, but I've been very fortunate and worked pretty consistently and have felt rather annoyingly grateful that I got to do what I got to do.
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The whole process of music for me is something absolutely honest and really naked and bare, so I never forced myself to write in French.
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When money was plentiful, I was the first one who told you to stack it. Live your life with it. Now that money slowed up, I'ma be the one telling you to save it like they ain't gon' make it no more.
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There is no such thing as ugly.
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Actually, the language in Shakespeare is wonderfully musical. You need to hear the music to connect with the words.
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I always carry prayer cards to St. Jude and St. Martha with me.
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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.
