William Hazlitt Quotes
The assumption of merit is easier, less embarrassing, and more effectual than the actual attainment of it.
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First of all, I try to be a positive role model.
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You can mostly forget ethnic or religious differences. The competition for a bigger share of the oil proceeds is behind much of the fighting.
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My first name, with the rare two-r spelling, came from a sportswriter named Garry Schumacher. My parents didn't know him personally, but my mother liked the spelling.
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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 that young women and little girls need to see that they don't have to be the damsel in distress. They don't have to not show their strength. They don't have to be whatever the stereotype is or the tropes that we go to in our minds.
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There are fans of Twenty20 cricket, and we need to ensure that we give them the cricket they want to see. We need to keep Test cricket alive, because there is a section of fans who love and worship Test cricket and have basically helped this game grow, and they are as important as anybody else.
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Sometimes, I sit down to sketch at the unearthly hour of 3 in the morning!
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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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We need an unambiguous rule - a law - that nobody will step between the publisher and the consumer, full stop.
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My dad wouldn't let me date until I was 16.
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I would like to be in a superhero movie where I do martial arts.
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No man was ever great by imitation.
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Poetry, fiction as novels or short stories - these are autonomous as created by their authors. They should stand on their own, like pieces of furniture that should be judged as to their usefulness, elegance.
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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 always thought that you breathe, you eat, you go to sleep, and you draw.
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You could give the best audition ever and not get the role or not get a callback because you just weren't what they were looking for.
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I don't know if a government bailout will rescue America's auto industry, but I do know that if there is a bailout, it better come with a big, bright stop sign and lots of strings attached.
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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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There is no way to stabilize the markets other than through government intervention.
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Hollywood is very much an industry town. Your life becomes caught up in all of the parties and this list and that list. That's not something that I respond well to.
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The assumption of merit is easier, less embarrassing, and more effectual than the actual attainment of it.
