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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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 went in reverse with this whole thing. People I've toured with were kids who consumed as much hip-hop as they could. I didn't do that until I started rapping.
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I'd never seen rain like that, ... It was just pouring. I'll never forget it: As they would squeegee the green, you would put your ball down and putt it.
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I don't think people cry reading 'Midnight's Children,' but a lot of people seem to cry watching the movie.
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I'm from working-class, blue-collar America, and I don't believe that people in that socioeconomic strata wait until they're 40 to have children.
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The effort of every time I put out a video, it was like, 'Okay, I've got to put it on my Facebook, I've got to put it on my website, what's the view count now? What's the view count now? What's the view count now?' You get obsessive with it.
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Having the choice at the end of my life has become incredibly important. It has given me a sense of peace during a time that otherwise would be dominated by fear, uncertainty and pain.
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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.
