William Hazlitt Quotes
The book-worm wraps himself up in his web of verbal generalities, and sees only the glimmering shadows of things reflected from the minds of others.
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I love to cook. I could never give that up.
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I approach these people from a standpoint of love. How were they loved? How do they love? What's going on in their heart? There's that that I think about with every role.
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I try not to picture a reader when I'm writing. It's like trying to make a great table but not picturing anybody sitting at it.
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I think it's always easy to be sympathetic to parts of the government in detail; in their concrete manifestations. Because obviously, we don't have government for no reason.
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I don't want people to know what I'm actually like. It's not good for an actor.
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I would like to do a duet with Taylor Hanson, because I have loved Hanson since I was 8.
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It was really impossible to break through in Russia. We couldn't buy any balls. We really didn't have any courts, no rackets, nothing. And no people to practice with.
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I don't understand why there aren't more powerful female directors. I don't have the answers, but I hope that things may start to shift and that studios will employ more women to handle strong and interesting material.
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Unending was the stream, unending the misery, unending the sorrow.
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If you want, you can have a coffin made out of cardboard or wicker or papier mache. There's one like a seed pod, or you could buy one that doubles as both a bookcase and a coffin. During your life, you stand it in your living room, and then after you die, the books are taken out and your body put in their place and the whole thing buried.
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I sort of understood that when I first started: that you shouldn't repeat a success. Very often you're going to, and maybe the first time you do, it works. And you love it. But then you're trapped.
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I would like to have the original ending to my Lord of the Rings instead of the one they released. In my original cut I had the victory at Helm's Deep as the final sequence.
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I don't think I realized the extremes of my proportions until I moved to Paris. I thought I'd be 'normal' as a model, but actually, even in that world, I was at one end of the spectrum.
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So, I have my own horse and two ponies. I grew up around horses, and that really is my passion.
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People's lives have to change as a result of this legislation.
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A new bubble will replace the old one. A new technology will come along to fix the messes we made with the last one. In a way, that is the story of the settling of the Americas, the supposedly inexhaustible frontier to which Europeans escaped.
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Ricky Martin is one of my idols in the industry.
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I don't have any regrets. I consider myself really privileged to belong to medicine and do what I do. I would do it all again.
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There can be an energy in a populist campaign that isn't always in the best interest of the party.
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Our little time of suffering is not worthy of our first night's welcome home to Heaven.
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As funny as it sounds, the best thing I got out of making a solo record was to realize how much I love being in a band.
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You tell me your favorite novelists and I'll tell you whom you vote for, or whether you vote at all.
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The book-worm wraps himself up in his web of verbal generalities, and sees only the glimmering shadows of things reflected from the minds of others.
