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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Wanting to be understood by an audience that didn't know Russian, I tried to paint musical pictures by emphasizing the phrasing, using voice color more boldly, and varying the shade and nuance.
Galina Vishnevskaya
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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
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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
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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
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I have two children who died before reaching 30, so who am I to complain about being alive?
Carlos Fuentes
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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
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It was a weak spot in any nation to have a large body of disaffected people within its confusion.
Zora Neale Hurston
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My mom is an experimental chemist and physicist, so she is a cut-and-dried, nuts-and-bolts kind of woman, and my dad is a theoretical chemist, so we were definitely raised with his philosophical point of view: imaginary numbers and dimensions beyond our own. That's the kind of thing we would talk about.
Andrew Sean Greer
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I'd always wanted to do something about the Second World War, but I didn't want to do another combat film, whether it was air, land, or sea.
Michael Apted
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Binding emissions targets for the developing nations are out of the question.
Eileen Claussen
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I'm an attacker, and forwards always want to score.
Stephan El Shaarawy
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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