William Hazlitt Quotes
Talent is the capacity of doing anything that depends on application and industry and it is a voluntary power, while genius is involuntary.
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First of all, I try to be a positive role model.
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What I remember most about high school are the memories I created with my friends.
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I never gave it that much thought to pursue acting or anything, but I would definitely be a Bond girl if they asked me. For sure - I would make a great evil Bond girl!
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Fiction should be about moral dilemmas that are so bloody difficult that the author doesn't know the answer.
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I think, by and large, the level of acting is mediocre. When I go to the theatre, I get so angry. I don't go.
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With my sunglasses on, I'm Jack Nicholson. Without them, I'm fat and 60.
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Modern psychology has pointed to the need of educating people to use a much larger portion of the mind. Transcendental meditation fulfills this need. And it can be taught very easily.
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Sometimes, I sit down to sketch at the unearthly hour of 3 in the morning!
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I once rode a motorcycle across Tunisia, Algeria and Morocco!
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Politics exist in the boardroom, as well.
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If anything, game development is even more of a team effort than making a movie, so for individuals to get credit for making a game is absolutely insane.
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Print-on-demand and electronic self-publishing options have made it easy for anyone to set up a business as a publisher whether they know what they're doing or not.
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During the holiday season, it's easy to forget that sometimes the best gift of all is simply the gift of time. I can't think of anything a writer would appreciate more than being given time and space to work.
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We need an unambiguous rule - a law - that nobody will step between the publisher and the consumer, full stop.
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The harder you work, the harder it is to surrender.
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I would like to be in a superhero movie where I do martial arts.
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Any radical change or trauma always makes for interesting subject matter, but then all stories deal, to some extent, with the disjuncture between past and present.
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If a company is profitable, the founder is in control. If it's not, investors are in control.
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I started writing songs when I was real young, when I was 3 years old. The piano spoke to me - I don't remember when I wasn't playing piano. My second grade talent show was the first time I performed my own thing. I dressed up as Dracula and played a song called 'Monster Rock' that I wrote. And I won.
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Eakins rejected gentlemen athletics as his theme. Instead, he took a subject that had been the stuff of illustrated weeklies and the penny press and turned it into fine art. Eakins celebrates not fire from heaven but honest sweat, not genius but hard work.
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I intend to work until the day I die. I retired from feature-length films but not from animation. Self-indulgent animation. It's nice that I have the mini-theater in the museum. Most of the museum visitors attend the mini-theater screenings and we've never had a complaint about the quality of the films. I'd like to continue to make films that leave the audience satisfied, but I also think it's pointless unless I offer them the kind of animation they can't get anywhere else. They're fun to do. They're short so it's less stressful.
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Talent is the capacity of doing anything that depends on application and industry and it is a voluntary power, while genius is involuntary.
