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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Harry Dresden: Took cover. In the action business, when you don't want to say you ran like a mouse, you call it 'taking cover.' It's more heroic.
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Which are you?...competen t, inspiring, passionate, obsessed, provocative, impatient, hungry, driven, adoring, inspired, an artist, a genius, someone who cares...? With all these remarkable, powerful, important options available to each of us, why do so many of us default to competent?
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To me, I approach a small-budget, artsy, European movie the same way as a big commercial Hollywood movie. That's the most important thing. Hollywood usually represents this big dream in people's minds, but to me, it's just hard work.
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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.
