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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Concepts of justice must have hands and feet to carry out justice in every case in the shortest possible time and the lowest possible cost. This is the challenge to every lawyer and judge in America.
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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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Detroit's a good investment because, first of all, the entry fee for everything is lower. And, you've got the talent that is here that is ambitious and motivated, so you're going to get in on a much lower cost structure in every way, shape, or form from labor to buildings to whatever.
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Getting older is not nice for anyone, not for men, not for women, and even more difficult for people who depend on their physical appearance. But it's not a drama. I know some people who are much more stressed than I am. And also, I live in Europe; I think it would be much more difficult if I lived in America.
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You have been compelled to cultivate your reflective faculties, for want of occasions for frittering your life away in silly trifles.
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To go wrong in one's own way is better than to go right in someone else's.
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When a man makes a specialty of knowing how some other fellow ought to spend his money, he usually thinks in millions and works for hundreds.
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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.
