William Hazlitt Quotes
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I believe that movies are fast becoming antique and dinosauric as a medium. Film is a medium for the over-40s and television has gone the same way. If you're going to look towards the new generation, then of course you're going to have to be a lot more random, spontaneous, irreverent and provocative with your programming.
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My type of basketball is about how to create space, how to maneuver, how to get your shot off.
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I was an expert horseman.
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I don't jog, if I die I want to be sick.
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Every training session, I try to simulate the conditions similar to where I am racing.
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I'm just someone who marvels at God.
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I changed that system in Florida when I was the Speaker of the House - I was the Minority Leader; I saw for 16 years the way a power system works.
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Power says if you are a committee chairman, your idea is good only because you have got power.
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I'd probably describe my sense of humor as 'twisted,' I guess. It's not hard to make me laugh, especially when I'm surrounded by my close friends, especially my bandmates.
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In some weird, warped way, I'm actually convinced that if I got mugged, I could probably take out the guy.
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I didn't record any additional dialogue for this CD, they are excerpts pulled from existing episodes.
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The other aspect of American identity worth focusing on is the concept of America as a nation of immigrants. That certainly is a partial truth. But it is often assumed to be the total truth.
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The beautiful thing about the NFL season is to see a team come together after they get to know each other in the spring and summer. You then go through adversity together and see how you respond. The teams that can respond in a positive way are the teams that are going to be there in the end.
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It used to be that you needed a $500-million-a-year company in order to reach a worldwide audience of consumers. Now, all you need is a Steam account. That changes a whole bunch of stuff. It's kind of a boring 'gee, information processing changes a stuff' story, but it's going to have an impact on every single company.
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I need talk more, call people out. It's not who I am, but I feel I need to do this more to bring more attention for me.
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It's like having astronomy without knowing where the stars are.
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I never met a woman I didn't like. I love 'em all, in their different ways.
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For me, it's not necessarily interesting to play a strong, fearless woman. It's interesting to play a woman who is terrified and then overcomes that fear. It's about the journey. Courage is not the absence of fear, it's overcoming it.
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Public and employer opinion often defeat society's best interests with a prejudice against middle-aged women.
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I saw Damien Rice in Dublin when I was 13, and that inspired me to want to pursue being a songwriter... I practised relentlessly and started recording my own EPs. At 16, I moved to London and played any gigs I could, selling CDs from my rucksack to fund recording the next, and it snowballed from there.
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Silence is absorption, and when you're watching a film and you're that quiet and you're that still, at least from my experience of watching films, that indicates an absorption, where you're really in the moment. You're really present. What you're seeing is vital to you in that moment, and it's tingling, and it's alive, and it matters.
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The first half-dozen or so will be nice, but after that, I'm going to want a pro. (Referring to the Muslim concept of achieving 72 virgins upon arrival in heaven).
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Marriage is actually really terrifying. It doesn't work for many people.
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We grow tired of ourselves, much more of other people.
