William Hazlitt Quotes
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Now I'm back home, living in London, running my theater. I just want to enjoy all that.
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Once every five hundred years or so, a summary statement about poetry comes along that we can't imagine ourselves living without.
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A lot of times when you play... you get this adrenalin that blocks pain.
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The man who has no money is poor, but one who has nothing but money is poorer. He only is rich who can enjoy without owning; he is poor who though he has millions is covetous.
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I can assure you we are all strong-willed, forceful personalities and the president encourages vigorous debate.
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I believe that my parents did wonderful things for us.
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In general, I tend to laugh too much. I always try to tell myself not to, but I think that's just part of getting through the job. It's not rocket science. I want to have a good time!
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The bad boy: always more fun.
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I love just walking around New York. It's like a whole world in one place.
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Those edges and turns teach control and discipline, just like finger exercises on the piano.
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I hear my songs being sung by females before I change them and make them into my voice.
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When you go on an audition it's very frightening.
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Youth is really in your attitude, not in what you look like.
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He who sells what isn't his'n, Must buy it back or go to prison.
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One of the strategies for doing first-person is to make the narrator very knowing, so that the reader is with somebody who has a take on everything they observe.
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The voice of conscience is so delicate that it is easy to stifle it; but it is also so clear that it is impossible to mistake it.
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For a scientific theory of him to be possible, man, including his habits of valuation, has to be taken as determined by causal laws, as an instance and part of nature.
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I saw a sign one time that said 'hemorrhoids awareness week' at the doctor's office. Let me tell you, if you got hemorrhoids, I'm sure you are aware of it. You don't need a sign to tell anybody about it.
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I never was interested in politics. I'm quite unable to work up any kind of belligerent feeling. Just as I'm about to feel belligerent about some country I meet a decent sort of chap. We go out together and lose any fighting thoughts or feelings.
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You can be an ordinary athlete by getting away with less than your best. But if you want to be a great, you have to give it all you've got-your everything.
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"Ego," sayest thou, and art proud of that word. But the greater thing - in which thou art unwilling to believe - is thy body with its big sagacity; it saith not "ego," but doeth it.
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I like major theology. I like Karl Barth, and I like John Calvin, and I like Martin Luther. The scale of thinking and the power of integration that they're capable of from thinking in that scale is something that's really unique to theology.
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My little 8-year-old brother drew a picture of three cats and he wrote 'Cat Empire' under them. When we were looking for a name, I saw that drawing and it stuck with us.
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We never do anything well till we cease to think about the manner of doing it.
