William Hazlitt Quotes
Man is the only animal that laughs and weeps; for he is the only animal that is struck with the difference between what things are, and what they ought to be.
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Women can't be afraid to look like action heroes. It's not always pretty, but when it's on the screen, it translates well to the audience.
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I was brought up with beautiful music - Nat King Cole and Glen Miller from my dad, and my mum loved Judy Garland and Doris Day - brilliant stuff. Through my brothers and sisters I heard David Bowie and The Specials, The Carpenters, Meatloaf and The Rolling Stones.
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Loyalty will not permit envy, hate, and uncharitableness to creep into our public thinking.
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I do not suppose I shall be remembered for anything. But I don't think about my work in those terms. It is just as vulgar to work for the sake of posterity as to work for the sake of money.
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For me, my home is a peaceful place where I can rest, and it gives me back energy.
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I ain't just collab-ing with anybody. Because I don't care about making friends. I got enough friends.
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I never wrote my books especially for children.
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Now, everybody knows my music. So that's really cool. A lot of kids know it. Now, when I go to a sports game, everybody knows my name.
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The best part of being blonde is forgivable momentary lapses of common sense.
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When I first wrote 'Papa Hemingway,' there were too many people still alive, and the lawyers for Random House didn't want to OK it. But now all that's been filtered away by the passage of all these people. And having the fortune of surviving, I now feel that I am the custodian of what Ernest wanted the world to know about him and these women.
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I went to an all-girls Catholic high school. The three things that they focused on were reading, writing, and arithmetic. My goodness, this is a novel idea in this modern society. I was really good at all three of these things. I was particularly good at math.
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The great thing about Gospel is that you don't have to have an album every year in order to keep working.
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I think every girl's dream is to find a bad boy at the right time, when he wants to not be bad anymore.
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Family and friends and faith are the most important things in your life and you should be building friendships.
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I'm not in this sport to say a guy can beat me.
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It costs a great deal of money to do a musical, and the more money involved, the more big business influences the artform.
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Give the peasants neither life nor death.
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Movies can't ruin books. They can only ruin movies.
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Today's date, the eighteenth of May, should sometime become an occasion of great international celebration, for on this day ten years ago the first Peace Conference opened at The Hague.
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A fellow from Texas can tell the difference between grass-roots and AstroTurf.
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I hope to read a Harry Potter novel soon, to see what it's all about. I admit to being annoyed that many good light fantasy writers have had trouble getting published, in England and elsewhere, when it is obvious the readers were waiting for us all along.
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I do not want to be admired. I want to give, to be given, and solitude in which to unfold my possessions.
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My life has often been described as 'from rags to riches' but in fact, the Ross's were never raggedy.
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Man is the only animal that laughs and weeps; for he is the only animal that is struck with the difference between what things are, and what they ought to be.
