William Hazlitt Quotes
There are few things in which we deceive ourselves more than in the esteem we profess to entertain for our firends. It is little better than a piece of quackery. The truth is, we think of them as we please, that is, as they please or displease us.
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My son's a West Point cadet.
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I had the good fortune of having a happy, closely knit family.
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My dad's a Jew, and my mom's a WASP, so that should pretty much say it all. It was a comically dysfunctional family.
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I wanted a bronzer so I could look like I just came from Ibiza everyday.
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Since first starting my career, I've grown accustomed to working with actors older than me. I'm always the youngest.
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It's insane to me to ask anybody to be what they're not. Know what you know the best, love the most. That's always going to be the answer to the thing that you have the best shot at winning at.
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You didn't hear anything about 'Celtic Pride' when they had Sidney Wicks and Curtis Rowe and they were only winning 32 games a year.
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My idea for 'BoneMan's Daughters' came from the loss of my own daughter when she left home to live with a monster at age 18. I wanted to throttle the man, but she was in love, so all I could do was hope, pray and cry.
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As for the Canadians - good actors and good directors are sometimes taken by the American market, you know, if they're good enough.
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Nine times out of ten, in the arts as in life, there is actually no truth to be discovered; there is only error to be exposed.
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When I first moved to New York, all I did was musical theater. That's what I studied at Carnegie Mellon University.
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Why if I had half a chance, I could make an entire movie using this stock footage. The story opens on these mysterious explosions. Nobody knows what's causing them, but it's upsetting all the buffalo. So, the military are called in to solve the mystery.
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That's all you can do as an actor - take the best thing available.
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If we were the team that won out, then life was good and we felt that we were worth something.
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I didn't have a childhood.
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My goal from being a child was to have a happy home life.
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Everyone puts all of the advances that we've made on Dr. King, but there's a lot of people who were part of the civil rights movement.
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I work to create systems that can accurately detect pandemics early, determine their likely importance, and, with any luck, crush those that have the potential to devastate us.
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And I've been walking 'round with memories way too long.
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It's fun singing with other people who are really good singers. There's something kind of poignant about braiding a couple vocals.
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You study all your life, you work really hard to do your best work onstage and onscreen, and then you make your best money playing an ant.
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There are few things in which we deceive ourselves more than in the esteem we profess to entertain for our firends. It is little better than a piece of quackery. The truth is, we think of them as we please, that is, as they please or displease us.
