William Hazlitt Quotes
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Homer's work hits again and again on the topos of the inexpressible. People will always do that.
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The only important thing about design is how it relates to people.
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When Californians see something we truly believe in, we say so and act accordingly - without evasiveness or equivocation.
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It's a pretty brutal process, having a baby.
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Pakistanis can't trust. They've seen in history that people, particularly politicians, are corrupt. And they're misguided by people in the name of Islam. They're told: 'Malala is not a Muslim, she's not in purdah, she's working for America.'
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To try to create a character without a whole lot of information can be taxing. At the same time, it's fun to just stay on your toes and let the next bit of dialogue come in, and turn the page as you read the next script and see what they have in store for you next.
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The world, as a rule, does not live on beaches and in country clubs.
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I grew up being taught, 'Do unto others as they would do unto you.' I would get scolded for not being polite.
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In this world, with thy earthly life, thou art under heaven, stars, and elements, also under hell and devils; all ruleth in thee, and over thee.
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The Blue Dogs are a group of conservative Democrats in the House of Representatives.
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When Kennedy could not get the civil rights bill passed - and he was the big liberal - Lyndon Johnson came in and it got passed, and he was the conservative and the southerner. So sometimes in politics, to get something done, it takes a special kind of knowledge and a special kind of person, but it doesn't always follow the party lines.
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You have to work with what you are given, even in Shakespeare. we have our form and it is important that we free ourselves through it.
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Publishers have published women's fiction into a corner, and now we are all trying to punch our way out of it. We just have to write the best books we possibly can and hope that, once the pink covers and Bridget Jones have faded from memory, we might finally be allowed just to be called writers.
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Something amazing happens when you tell people you write about sports for a living. You begin to feel like you're in a scene from 'Dawn of the Dead.' The way people change when talking about 'their team' can be nothing short of zombiefication.
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I'm trying to make work that is reflective and is encouraging of reflection.
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I've always been the most vocal person socially about things that I feel are important.
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I got these big coffee table books about Chinese opera from the local library, and I loved looking through them. I loved studying the intricate costumes and figuring out how to 'cartoonify' them.
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You would always beat me; not so much because you are a better fighter as because you will not accept defeat.
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The only tough thing is admitting to my wife how much a certain article of clothing costs.
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When I was younger, not being accepted made me enraged, but now, I am not inclined to dismantle my history. If you banish the dragons, you banish the heroes-and we become attached to the heroic strain in our personal history.
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Tallulah [Bankhead] never bored anyone, and I consider that humanitarianism of a very high order indeed.
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History proves abundantly that pure science, undertaken without regard to applications to human needs, is usually ultimately of direct benefit to mankind.
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...if you fall into a lion's pit, the reason the lion will tear you to pieces is not because it's hungry-be assured, zoo animals are amply fed-or because it's bloodthirsty, but because you've invaded it's territory.
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We must be doing something to be happy.
