William Hazlitt Quotes
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I'm from Houston. I think I was thirty-seven before I ever set foot in Dallas, and that was just in the airport. So I've never really been there. Dad grew up in Port Arthur, Texas and all I can ever get out of him is, 'I wanted my first son to be named Dallas.'
Dallas Roberts
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I've never rejected the world I came from. To be rejected by it is horrible.
Salman Rushdie
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An interview has become such a confrontational thing. It makes you very defensive.
Francesca Annis
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There is no debate that social media is a great tool for networking with others in our industry. It can lead to friendships, support, and serendipitous connections with reviewers, agents, reporters, or editors.
M. J. Rose
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When service members are discharged, we should express our gratitude for their profound personal sacrifice, not hand them a bill for their hospital food.
Barbara Boxer
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I don't think it's possible to separate out the strands of a writer's history, circumstances, life events, and that writer's themes.
Dani Shapiro
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Sometimes when you're making more errors you want to pull back, but I just need to keep going forward.
Venus Williams
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Women are responsible for their children, they cannot sit back, waste time and see them starve.
Wangari Maathai
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One time I got dressed in all black, Rambo-style, and took a massive pair of bolt-cutters and nicked a military bike.
Zlatan Ibrahimovic
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Ages when custom is unsettled are necessarily ages of prophecy. The moralist cannot teach what is revealed; he must reveal what can be taught. He has to seek insight rather than to preach.
Walter Lippmann
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It's a little strange when part of your family is in the public eye, and you're being put into a box that you're not necessarily in. That's when it starts to feel a bit odd: When you're being told who you are, but it's incorrect.
Gabriella Wilde
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Well, there's just some universal truths in a way that I've just observed to be true. You read Voltaire. You read modern literature. Anywhere you go, there's these observations about romantic love and what it does people, and these rotten feelings that rarely are people meaning to do that to each other.
Feist
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When someone steals a person's clothes, we call him a thief. Should we not also give the same name to the one who could clothe the naked but does not?
Saint Basil
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The think that we hung the film version all on was 'Hedwig' on tour. On stage, it's one theatre, one show. It just seemed natural to change it. In the film, we were able to go to flashback rather than have her talk to the audience. And we had the play to practice and to see where we had made mistakes.
John Cameron Mitchell
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You can't argue with someone who believes, or just passionately suspects, that the poet's function is not to write what he must write but, rather, to write what he would write if his life depended on his taking responsibility for writing what he must in a style designed to shut out as few of his old librarians as humanly possible.
J. D. Salinger
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Feminism has taught women to sue men for sexual harassment or date rape when men initiate with the wrong person or with the wrong timing; no one has taught men to sue women for sexual trauma for saying 'yes,' then 'no,' then 'yes.' … Men are still expected to initiate, but now, if they do it badly, they could go to jail.
Warren Farrell
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I think women are just as gifted when it comes to science as men are. But I think their wishes and desires are different and this is also shaped by the society in which they live.
Christiane Nusslein-Volhard
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No young man ever thinks he shall die.
William Hazlitt
