William Hazlitt Quotes
He is a hypocrite who professes what he does not believe; not he who does not practice all he wishes or approves.
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To worship the product and ignore its development leads to dilettantism and reaction.
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I would say the secret is to be enthusiastic about everything that comes into your life. To care, to care about people. To be excited about everything that comes close to you. I love to read. And I love to write, mostly.
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The North American intellectual tradition began, I maintain, in the encounter of British Romanticism with assertive, pragmatic North American English - the Protestant plain style in both the U.S. and Canada, with its no-nonsense Scottish immigrants.
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I was born technically in D.C., and then my family moved to the Columbia area when I was in elementary school. It was right on the line between Clarksville and Columbia in Howard County. I remember it being just like a peaceful, safe atmosphere. I always felt connected to the woods and that whole suburban feel.
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One of the strange things about violent and authoritarian regimes is they don't like the glare of negative publicity.
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I have a Rhodesian Ridgeback dog named Lola.
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With 'Smoke Signals,' the character was so much like me growing up. I lost my parents, and I wish I'd had an opportunity to find out where they were. So I was reflecting on how I grew up, that feeling of abandonment. That whole film was a reality that I always held back and kept to myself.
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I was about nine years old when a teacher administered my IQ test. Unfortunately, as I was nine, I didn't know that I needed to keep the paperwork for future reference.
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All the animals I've painted always have a relationship with man. I have been told that part of the knowledge of the human anatomy comes from animals.
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Originally I had planned to revert to nuclear physics there, in particular the structure of the deuteron.
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I love to see a wood full of bluebells. Growing up in the Kent countryside, I have special memories of this brief annual spectacle.
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I'm portable. I carry a laptop and a little recording studio on my back.
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I'm quite British; I've got big, flat feet, and I can't wear heels. I've got very, very pale Celtic skin, so my legs are always a frightening blue color. So when you take out clothes that reveal your legs, shoes that have any kind of heel, no shop will actually take my money.
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I've had a few conversations with people who are horrified: who tell me my work is demeaning, is sexist, is negative.
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Acting has always existed alongside my normal life. It's been a case of learning on the job. I've worked in so many styles, with so many people, so I've picked bits up from everyone and everything.
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If we knew about the real facts and statistics of mortality, we'd be terrified.
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No good opera plot can be sensible, for people do not sing when they are feeling sensible.
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There are many women who came before me who didn't really have the same opportunities that I have had. That's why I always wanted to be a great ambassador - not only today's generation - but for the women who really didn't have a voice, but who paved the way for me.
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There has to be a level of intuition involved in what I do, and the more you use that intuition, the more honed it is.
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It is very rare in the life of an intellectual to see your support network show up all at once.
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My children know not to shout before Mummy has warmed herself into something human with her coffee.
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I'm no Buddhist monk, and I can't say I'm in love with renunciation in itself, or traveling an hour or more to print out an article I've written, or missing out on the N.B.A. Finals. But at some point, I decided that, for me at least, happiness arose out of all I didn't want or need, not all I did.
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He is a hypocrite who professes what he does not believe; not he who does not practice all he wishes or approves.
