William Hazlitt Quotes
Poverty, labor, and calamity are not without their luxuries, which the rich, the indolent, and the fortunate in vain seek for.
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Clark Gregg and I are around the same age. He has been an actor and is a writer. But with a first-time director, there is a way to talk about things they might not know. Because Clark was an actor, though, he knew more about the process than most first-time directors.
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A true champion is one who sweats from exhaustion when no one is watching.
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I'm the most Colombian of the Colombians, even though I've lived 47 years outside of Colombia. I've lived 13 years in New York, and I never did a painting about New York. I've lived in France more than 30 years, and I've never painted Paris.
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I've performed Schoenberg's 'Pierrot lunaire' many times.
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I didn't make any money from my writing until much later. I published about 80 stories for nothing. I spent on literature.
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I have said a hundred times, and I have no inclination to take it back, that I believe there is no right, and ought to be no inclination in the people of the free States to enter into the slave States, and to interfere with the question of slavery at all. I have said that always.
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Pasta with melted cheese is the one thing I could eat over and over again.
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Having a couple really great basics makes it easy to dress well every day.
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A little recognition is not a bad thing because it means people appreciate your work. The only problem is when you can't walk down the street or have a meal without people looking at you. I want to be the one looking at people.
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At the end of the 19th century and the first half of the 20th century in Austria, there was a lot of anti-Semitism. Anti-Semitism in Austria was much more pervasive than in Germany. And Austrians took to Nazi ideas and anti-Semitism much more readily than Germans did, really.
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Young men should prove theorems, old men should write books.
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Anger begets more anger, and forgiveness and love lead to more forgiveness and love.
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For me, when I picture the person I want to end up with, I don't think about what their career is, or what they look like. I picture the feeling I get when I'm with them.
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It would be a sad story to get rid of religious belief, national identity, family, and even sexual identity. That's not freedom.
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A team without hope fizzles: no flameout, no fire.
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We lived in a one-bedroom apartment in Northwest D.C. I was essentially raised by a Panamanian man and a Jamaican woman. That's why I have such a fascination with Jamaican food.
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The true humanist maintains a just balance between sympathy and selection.
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I had never auditioned for Broadway - any play - and I was not familiar with what you're supposed to do.
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In real terms, there is a greater disparity of earnings between the very rich and the very poor.
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I don't know what a supermodel is. If they call me that, I might have to punch them. It's just so vain and so unreal.
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It's difficult to write about poverty in a way that doesn't feel cliched.
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Use the creative process - singing, writing, art, dance, whatever - to get to know yourself better.
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Poverty, labor, and calamity are not without their luxuries, which the rich, the indolent, and the fortunate in vain seek for.
