William Hazlitt Quotes
Our opinions are not our own, but in the power of sympathy. If a person tells us a palpable falsehood, we not only dare not contradict him, but we dare hardly disbelieve him to his face. A lie boldly uttered has the effect of truth for the instant.
Quotes to Explore
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If I started worrying about how my constituents are going to react to every move I make, I wouldn't be able to do my job here. I'll do what I think is right and explain it later.
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To receive everything, one must open one's hands and give.
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I feel like I became an artist by default. I went to art college, but my interest was always more towards film than painting or sculpture.
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You need someone to see what you've done, to read it and to understand it and to appreciate what's gone into it.
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I have got prostate cancer, and I have to keep monitoring that. It's no problem, it's under control and I'm very cool about it, but other people are dying from it.
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Since I played a warrior in 'Magadheera,' my character sported shoulder-length hair and a thick beard.
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Gautham was a premature baby. I remember when doctors said that his health condition was critical, I was tense. I could afford the treatment, but a lot of commoners can't. I believe more children's lives can be saved if we work towards it.
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If I didn't write, I'd be like a duvet cover; I have no other marketable skills. Clearly I'm not meant to do anything else.
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The magic of landing my first role on Broadway went 'poof' in a matter of a few weeks.
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Anybody can do a deal. The tough part is doing the deal at the right time, being strategic.
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What led me to be an actor is that I have a strange something in me that can drastically change the way I appear to the world. Growing up, I couldn't understand why people would always have different ideas of me - but because of that I became aware of how you can manipulate your own ability to change. And then I learned to make a career of it.
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Play for Canada? Why not? I have a Canadian passport.
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As a kid, my grandma would be dancing all the time.
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Night fell clean and cold in Dublin, and wind moaned beyond my room as if a million pipes played the air.
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Follow that will and that way which experience confirms to be your own.
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My father worked, and my mother played bridge. Every time I went out of the house, I was chauffeur-driven with my nanny next to me to stop me being kidnapped.
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My least favorite subject? Uh... I didn't have a least favorite subject because, I mean, high school is so much fun.
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When I began writing, I didn't read any other children's poets... I didn't want to be influenced until I'd found my own voice. Now I read them all.
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How comes it that a cripple does not offend us, but a fool does? Because a cripple recognizes that we walk straight, whereas a fool declares that it is we who are silly; if it were not so, we should feel pity and not anger.
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I try and sit on the fence because as soon as you voice any kind of opinion, people begin to think you're an idiot.
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Reduce your plan to writing. The moment you complete this, you will have definitely given concrete form to the intangible desire.
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Mere change is not growth. Growth is the synthesis of change and continuity, and where there is no continuity there is no growth.
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The world goes on, as stupid and brutal as tomorrow as it was today. And though I am shuddering with pain, and twisting with pain, and sobbing with pain, i laugh.Because I know now. I know the answer. I know the truth. Oh,dead man, you are dead wrong, I tell him.Can't you see? The world goes on, stupid and brutal, but I [do not. I do not.]
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Our opinions are not our own, but in the power of sympathy. If a person tells us a palpable falsehood, we not only dare not contradict him, but we dare hardly disbelieve him to his face. A lie boldly uttered has the effect of truth for the instant.
