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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Unless we increase our economy's productivity-its vitality and competitiveness-we will face pressure for increasing controls.
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I utterly reject the view that the Third World is doomed to poverty and starvation. Not only is this wrong, I think this attitude verges on the immoral, like thinking that slavery is an unalterable facet of the human condition so why bother doing anything about it?
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Imagination can't create anything new, can it? It only recycles bits and pieces from the world and reassembles them into visions... So when we thing we've escaped the unbearable ordinariness and, well, untruthfulness of our lives, it's really only the same old ordinariness and falseness rearranged into the appearance of novelty and truth. Nothing unknown is knowable.
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I think a lot of ladies found me so attractive because I was different, and I acted on that in a way.
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If you think about it, Washington's overwhelming power in the world is founded on death, the awesome arsenal for killing people.
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We never do anything well till we cease to think about the manner of doing it.
