William Hazlitt Quotes
Fame is the inheritance not of the dead, but of the living. It is we who look back with lofty pride to the great names of antiquity.William Hazlitt
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A lot of actors in my age bracket look at being still standing as pretty good.
Gary Cole -
I loved history because to me, history was like watching a movie.
Quentin Tarantino -
With a project like 'The 5th Wave,' you do something you would never do in your normal life; I would never have had S.W.A.T. training or boot camp, and there's something really cool about learning stuff like that that's really fun about our job.
Maika Monroe -
Still to this day, I don't know when I write something whether it's good or not.
Watt Key -
I always had dreams as a kid. I definitely sat at home and watched the Oscars every year and got emotional every year at everyone's speeches.
Yvonne Strahovski -
People don't remember each tree in a park but all of us benefit from the trees. And in a way, artists are like trees in a park.
Yoko Ono
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Literature at its fullest takes human nature as its theme. That's the kind of writing that interests me.
Damon Galgut -
I was only interested in my scene, and I had to go through thousands and thousands of other scenes. I got my scene and I read it many, many, many, many, many times. That was my research.
Ralph Fiennes -
If I wasn't performing, I wasn't alive. That's the truth. My parents had absolutely no interest in the business, but they knew it made me happy, so they said 'Go for it, girl!'
Samantha Barks -
I have two children who died before reaching 30, so who am I to complain about being alive?
Carlos Fuentes -
I was always active as a kid. I was a professional figure skater for many years and I was a dancer, so it's just been part of my life, and I think that creates a certain body type.
Malin Akerman -
I often look at places and kind of mentally convert them to fantasy versions of themselves.
Samantha Shannon
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I understand that people want to just listen to a track and put it on their iPod, and that's fine, there's nothing wrong with that, but why can't that exist hand in hand with an album? They're such different experiences.
Kate Bush -
I think a lot of people of my generation are discomfited by the assertion of neutrality in the mainstream media, this idea that they're the voice of God. I think it's just honest to say, yes, you know where I'm coming from but you can fact-check anything I say.
Rachel Maddow -
I admire an actor that can do a lot with doing nothing really, for the most part. I like doing a lot by doing so little.
Taylor Kitsch -
I like to improvise.
Iris Apfel -
It was a weak spot in any nation to have a large body of disaffected people within its confusion.
Zora Neale Hurston -
Crime against the individual is the equivalent of crime against humanity.
Mahmoud Ahmadinejad
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When I see people on the street, I look at how they walk. It's like a signature, a fingerprint.
Mikhail Baryshnikov -
Putin recognized that if he could get enough money, everything would be under control.
Garry Kasparov -
I can hire out for editing, proofreading, formatting, and cover design, and those are fixed, sunk costs. Once those are paid, I can earn 70% on a self-pubbed ebook.
J. A. Konrath -
Purpose is the thread that connects the dots to everything you do that leads you to an extraordinary life.
Oprah Winfrey -
Fame is the inheritance not of the dead, but of the living. It is we who look back with lofty pride to the great names of antiquity.
William Hazlitt