William Hazlitt Quotes
So I have loitered my life away, reading books, looking at pictures, going to plays, hearing, thinking, writing on what pleased me best. I have wanted only one thing to make me happy, but wanting that have wanted everything.
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There's always the risk that there are unknown unknowns.
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I really enjoy getting to go and play on other people's shows for an episode or two. It adds such variety to my repertoire.
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What brought the British to the Gambia in the first place - which was bigger than it is now - was trade in ivory because the Gambia had a lot of elephants. They wiped out all the elephants and ended up selling Africans.
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At some point, you grow out of being attracted to that flame that burns you over and over and over again.
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Language is the most extraordinary invention in the history of humanity, the one which came before everything and which makes it possible to share everything.
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Both my parents are Scottish, and although I grew up in Canada after moving over, all of my family are proud to be Scots.
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Millions of people are married. I've never picked up a paper and seen a headline that says, Man Gets Married!
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I love the creativity of New York, but I don't enjoy the city - I don't like living here.
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I'm a kind person; I don't have a really nihilist streak in me, but I respond to that kind of humour.
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I've got a PowerPoint deck that I use for internal presentations, and there's a slide on it that asks, 'What percentage of your game is combat versus exploration versus puzzle solving versus platforming,' and I refuse to answer that question.
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As a very young writer - kindergarten through about fifth grade - I most often wrote about black characters. My very early stories were science fiction and fantasy, with kids stowing away on spaceships and a girl named Tilly who was trying to get into the 'Guinness Book of World Records.'
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I was always used to being centre stage - something that had its good and bad points.
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I am not ever in the business of making anyone feel bad.
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I personally don't even try to compare New York and L.A. To me, they are just way too different.
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When you're actually making the film, you're constantly battling to maintain its integrity.
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I knew I wanted considerable education so that I wouldn't have to work as hard as my parents.
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Money is neither my god nor my devil. It is a form of energy that tends to make us more of who we already are, whether it's greedy or loving.
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Give the peasants neither life nor death.
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The most important thing to do as an artist is to get out of your comfort zone and work with different people: people who can't read a note of music, people who have incredible classical skills, blues and jazz musicians, pop artists, visual artists, dancers and actors. Learn from people who are creative in a different way to you and you'll keep evolving.
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And it has to do with having no inventory or stockpiles on the shelf, but items arrive as you need to build your product. What that means is that it's much more difficult to actually find stockpiles of already built weapons.
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The imagination is fertile. From seeds of the imagination, much is made manifest.
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My reason for leaving 'Beautiful', because I had such an amazing time on that show, was by the time I left, I had been doing the show for almost two years. I was a little burnt out.
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Life is about balance, and we all have to make the effort in areas that we can to enable us to make a difference.
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So I have loitered my life away, reading books, looking at pictures, going to plays, hearing, thinking, writing on what pleased me best. I have wanted only one thing to make me happy, but wanting that have wanted everything.
