William Hazlitt Quotes
The severest critics are always those who have either never attempted, or who have failed in original composition.
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We talk a lot about hope, helping, and teamwork. Our whole message is that we are more powerful together.
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I remember, around age three, peas growing in the back garden. Pinching them from their pods and popping them in the mouth was my first realisation that food came from somewhere other than a shelf.
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If you only do issue-based drama, you can become a boring wanker.
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The biggest segment of our audience is 18 to 34, and, believe it or not, they still speak Spanish, and they still watch novellas and soccer games and news.
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India may be the only country in the world that has been free of anti-Semitic prejudice throughout its history.
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It's a risk casting anyone against type or what they're known to do. But there's one thing better than having a great actor, which is having a great actor who's never done what you're asking him to do. He's hungry to get out of the trailer every day and hungry to test himself.
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Don't you think this outlaw bit has done got out of hand?What started out to be a joke, the law don't understand.Was it singing through my nose that got me busted by the man?Maybe this here outlaw bit has done got out of hand.
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While trade agreements are negotiated in secrecy, behind-closed doors, we have learned enough from leaks to know that the result of passing TPA to 'fast track' these trade agreements would affect everything from food safety to environmental protection to consumer financial protections.
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Now they have banging guitar and no bass and call it rock, but that's not what I call rock.
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If you're watching a film on your television, is it no longer a film because you're not watching it in a theatre? If you watch a TV show on your iPad, is it no longer a TV show? The device and the length are irrelevant; the labels are useless, except perhaps to agents and managers and lawyers, who use these labels to conduct business deals.
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All the lonely people, where do they all come from?
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Excuse me? You're a lady?" "I bought a title on the Internet. I own one square inch of Scotland. And you're changing the subject.
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I photograph continuously, often without a good idea or strong feelings. During this time the photos are nearly all poor, but I believe they develop my seeing and help later on in other photos. I do believe strongly in photography and hope by following it intuitively that when the photographs are looked at they will touch the spirit in people.
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When will the state of the country be sound?... When its people believe that the end result of cowardice is more disastrous than that of behaving with integrity.
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I'm interested in designing for posterity.
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If we have been pleased with life, we should not be displeased with death, since it comes from the hand of the same master.
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It is important to learn as much as you can about the person and then throw it all away so that you're not in any way doing some sort of mimicry.
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I knew all along that the prize I had set my life on was not worth the winning.
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I am tired of the position of the dried-up critic and doubter. The believer is the true full man. (from a biography of James by Robert D. Richardson)
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Critics are already made.
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The severest critics are always those who have either never attempted, or who have failed in original composition.
