William Hazlitt Quotes
It is only necessary to raise a bugbear before the English imagination in order to govern it at will. Whatever they hate or fear, they implicitly believe in, merely from the scope it gives to these passions.
Quotes to Explore
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There is a recurring temptation for any nation, and for any writer who operates within its field of force, to make an ornament of the past: to turn the losses to victories and to restate humiliations as triumphs.
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I'm already more famous than I want to be. And yet at the same time, fame feeds your potential as a creative person. You're in a vacuum if you don't have a certain amount of fame.
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The Beduin could not look for God within him: he was too sure that he was within God.
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When you've won a gold medal and you're at the top of your sport, everyone's trying to beat you. I find that incredibly motivating.
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My brothers and I love playing outside and climbing trees. We really love sports, too - I think football's probably my favorite.
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I believe that stories find writers, writers don't find stories. With the 'Pendragon' series, I actually had multiple story ideas and decided that instead of writing them individually, I would create a character whose journey would thread them all together.
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Once a Cubs fan, always a Cubs fan.
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I made a very slatternly mother, notably unkeen on housework, unaware that homes need to be cleaned now and then, and too often to be found with a cigarette in one hand and a drink in the other.
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The best advice my dad ever gave me is that acting is believing. Acting is not acting. It isn't putting on a face and dancing around in a mask. It's believing that you are that character and playing him as if it were a normal day in the life of that character.
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If there's a rift in the marriage - if someone feels neglected, frustrated, tempted by others, or unsure - then trouble can easily arise.
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If you don't know much about the field, you're able to ask a set of questions that an expert would never ask, and that allows you a very different thought process and a fresh approach.
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Two cheers for Democracy; one because it admits variety, and two because it permits criticism.
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I can only hope that my future movies will do well.
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I'd been brought up on musicals. Instead of cartoons, we watched videocassettes of musicals at home.
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It's better to be skinny than to be fat.
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Sentimentality is the only sentiment that rubs you the wrong way.
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A woman doesn't care if she hasn't a stomach, provided she looks as if she hasn't.
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It's an infinite creative universe to explore so why chase conservative options?
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We must be the great arsenal of Democracy.
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I hate the giving of the hand unless the whole man accompanies it.
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I believe if a private citizen is able to affect public opinion in a constructive way he doesn't have to be an elected public servant to perform a public service.
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I believe that a different therapy must be constructed for each patient because each has a unique story.
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Art is one of the prime ways we have of opening ourselves and going beyond ourselves. That's what art is: it's the product of the human being in the world and imagination, all coming together.
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It is only necessary to raise a bugbear before the English imagination in order to govern it at will. Whatever they hate or fear, they implicitly believe in, merely from the scope it gives to these passions.
