William Hazlitt Quotes
Grace is the absence of everything that indicates pain or difficulty, hesitation or incongruity.
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The only thing I have learnt over the years is that if you enjoy your work and put in the best efforts, it will show. If you follow this process, things work out. But if you go chasing a formula, success will elude you.
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You aren't your work, your accomplishments, your possessions, your home, your family... your anything. You're a creation of your Source, dressed in a physical human body intended to experience and enjoy life on Earth.
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Because of where I come from, I never thought I'd see in my life a black candidate running for President.
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It was failing part of my Ph.D. that led me into novel-writing. By then I was 29, had remarried and had a second baby. It struck me that I'd lost my path in life and I felt frustrated. That's when I started to write.
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I'm half living my life between reality and fantasy at all times. It's best not to ask questions and just enjoy.
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Instead of reading a paper, we now read the news online. Instead of buying books at a store, we buy them on-line. What's so revolutionary? The Internet has mainly affected our leisure life.
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When you meet the love of your life, it's just obvious and natural and easier.
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To have courage for whatever comes in life - everything lies in that.
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I think I was just lucky to be brought up in a very musical family. My two older brothers were, and still are, very musical and very creative, and music was a big part of my life from a very young age, so it is quite natural for me to become involved in music in the way that I did.
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You must go after your wish. As soon as you start to pursue a dream, your life wakes up and everything has meaning.
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As an assistant operations officer for a helicopter task force in Iraq, I saw my fellow Guardsmen and soldiers risk life and limb to maintain diesel fuel supply lines.
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I don't think of myself as a gearhead or a motorcyclist. I'm not that young, and this is like another life of mine. But the people I know from that era think of me that way.
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The only living works are those which have drained much of the author's own life into them.
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What really interests me is how a woman who has had a bad experience with a man comes through it and gets a new life. I feel you have to be positive. You have to say, 'Look, okay, he's ditched you, but there's life after.'
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I never aimed to be on television or in the press. We all have a personal life, and being a public figure disrupts that.
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Kindness, I've discovered, is everything in life.
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Life is one long jubilee.
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But if technique demands the participation of everybody, this means that the individual is reduced to a few essential functions which make him a mass man. He remains 'free', but he can no longer escape being a part of the mass. Technical expansion requires the widest possible domain. In the near future not even the whole earth may be sufficient.
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So often when Black men have to play roles on TV, we're either the noble savage or we're completely a savage, and there's no nuance.
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I think my younger self would be more amazed to know I was doing an interview for 'The Spectator.'
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For me, imagination would always provide a means of escape.
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Grace is the absence of everything that indicates pain or difficulty, hesitation or incongruity.
