William Hazlitt Quotes
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People think I look odd onstage. But the way I deal with being incredibly nervous is by concentrating really hard.
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People are told their rights when they're arrested. Consumers getting collection letters are entitled to the same courtesy.
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My earliest books focus almost entirely on psychological tools to help readers employ effective commonsense approaches to problems. There are no references to God or a higher self in the first 15 or so years of my publishing history.
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We don't need bigger government. We need to shrink the size of government.
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If somebody says they really like my playing I say thanks a lot.
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Look for yourself, and you will find in the long run only hatred, loneliness, despair, rage, ruin, and decay. But look for Christ, and you will find Him, and with Him everything else thrown in.
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Love is the ability and willingness to allow those that you care for to be what they choose for themselves without any insistence that they satisfy you.
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Mind is everything. Muscle - pieces of rubber. All that I am, I am because of my mind.
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The Schindler Jews were off-limits in Brunnlitz.
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I have a company called Earl Campbell Foods. I got into the meat business in 1991.
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Unrequited affection is very painful for the lover, but it can have unexpected, creative consequences.
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The greatest happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved; loved for ourselves, or rather, loved in spite of ourselves.
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A well begun is half ended.
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I wish I had invented blue jeans. They have expression, modesty, sex appeal, simplicity - all I hope for in my clothes.
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Always just remember that you can never know all; you're always going to be learning; there's always going to be something new. I don't think you'll ever have it all figured out.
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Maybe if I'd had more direct contact with death, I wouldn't find it so fascinating and I wouldn't write about it so much.
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I de-stress with my family, just at home pruning roses, cutting, working in the garden.
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If only we'd stop trying to be happy we'd have a pretty good time.
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Term limits aren't enough. We need jail.
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The thing I love about acting is that you can bring something very personal into the open and at the same time remain hidden because you're always playing a character in a story that someone else has imagined. You're always protected.
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But Shakespeare knows what the sphinx thinks, if anybody does. His genius is penetrative as cold midwinter entering every room, and making warmth shiver in ague fits. I think Shakespeare never errs in his logical sequence in character. He surprises us, seems unnatural to us, but because we have been superficial observers; while genius will disclose those truths to which we are blind.
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I try to do a lot of research beforehand so I know where I want to go with a scene. I try not to get too stressed about it, because I find that's the worst thing.
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There's such an immediate intimacy with film that you just don't get in theater.
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Anyone is to be pitied who has just sense enough to perceive his deficiencies.
