William Hazlitt Quotes
It is only those who never think at all, or else who have accustomed themselves to blood invariably on abstract ideas, that ever feel ennui.
Quotes to Explore
-
I have to be realistic about what I can and can't do. So whatever I do has to really be worth it. I like to master the things I do.
-
As an actress, I think it's important to look back and realize that we aren't always quite as original as we think we are. There's this grand, textured history for us over the last 100 years of incredible writers, directors, and performers.
-
If you go to India the roads are being built almost entirely with private sector money and by the private sector. If you look at many, many countries in Europe that's how they're doing it.
-
It's nice to have some distance with your family. As long as you're closer to them by love.
-
If there's a trait for not sleeping, I probably have it.
-
I've always said that I benefit, as an actor, from not having the illusion of security.
-
Seemed like everything I tried to do in broadcasting and as a player before that turned out successfully. I was succeeding. I got to the top of the heap in every facet of broadcasting.
-
Sweet is good. I'm not a fan of deep-fried things.
-
I want to be different and have a good story. If it's a good story, then everybody is trying to tell it, everybody is better for it, and it's just more fun.
-
Music is my heart, but I see television and more movies in the next stage of my life.
-
I had to figure out how to bring the world into my work.
-
Those edges and turns teach control and discipline, just like finger exercises on the piano.
-
I don't have the luxury of having a dog myself because I travel too much, but I love walking and cuddling somebody else's dog.
-
I am not hungry for roles on TV or in films. I am happy being a social media sensation.
-
The middle of 'America's Women' is about the Civil War, and how women, black and white, confronted slavery and abolition. As in every other period of crisis, the rules of sexual decorum were suspended due to emergency.
-
Music in movies is all about dissonance and consonance, tension and release.
-
My clerkship with Justice Douglas was tremendously important. He told me, Christopher, get out into the stream of history and see what happens. I've tried to follow that advice.
-
All reading was done in the early years out loud, there was no such thing as silent reading because you had to read out loud in order to figure out you know, where was a word ending and where is the word beginning.
-
I keep thinking someone's gonna show up and say, 'There's been a big mistake. The guy next door is supposed to be drawing the cartoon. Here's your shovel.'
-
Family relationships trigger childhood wounds, and those wounds often trump our rational thinking. We can't 'rationally' transcend the kind of primal pain that such relationships can arouse.
-
I think people who come into my home feel comfortable and welcome and loved. And the biggest thing in my living room (the fireplace) is in and of itself an expression of love.
-
My girlfriend knows that if I'm acting weird at home to go to one of my shows to see what's on my mind.
-
It is only those who never think at all, or else who have accustomed themselves to blood invariably on abstract ideas, that ever feel ennui.
