William Hazlitt Quotes
The soil of friendship is worn out with constant use. Habit may still attach us to each other, but we feel ourselves fettered by it. Old friends might be compared to old married people without the tie of children.
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I found the offer of a knighthood something that I couldn't possibly accept. I found it to be somehow squalid, a knighthood. There's a relationship to government about knights.
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I talk every day about doing the right thing.
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The character I play is a wonderful compilation of things I hate about myself and things I love about myself and things that I've invented to make her even more interesting than me.
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I'm confident in who I am. I've come to a place in my life where I've accepted things that are me, as opposed to feeling pressure to explain myself to people around me. That's just the way I've always tried to be. It didn't change when I became a star.
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There is a humanitarian impulse that one aspires to and there are days when one doesn't do it very well.
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If I were president, I am not sure that I would offer Ed Rendell the job of chief of staff.
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Everybody in the black community must organize, and then we decide whether we will have alliance with other people or not, but not until we are organized.
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My spelling is Wobbly. It's good spelling but it Wobbles, and the letters get in the wrong places.
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Every decent man is ashamed of the government he lives under.
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I don't mind what Congress does, as long as they don't do it in the streets and frighten the horses.
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It excites me to go to a movie and be reminded that I'm human, and I'm filled with opposites, and I'm built with flaws. Part of growth and healing is recognizing that.
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The kids from the streets don't want preaching or messages. They want what they can identify with. They want to hear about the reality of their situation, not fairy tales. They don't care if it's ugly; they just want reality.
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At the end of the day, you can't have a vision; you have to have a hope. This is where the miracle comes in.
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One of the recent love stories I enjoyed was Bhaskar's 'Bommarillu.'
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I like movies about longing and desperation, and dark and light things, stories about people struggling to raise children, and to have relationships and be intimate with each other.
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I think what it really is, is that I date creative people. And I think that what intimidates them is not my purse; it's my mind.
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The more research you do, the more at ease you are in the world you're writing about. It doesn't encumber you, it makes you free.
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It's important to be able to keep things fresh, no matter what age you are, or how many years you've been in the industry.
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What I like about acting is that you can be a different person every day.
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I'm only as good as my next appearance and my next match.
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Unfortunately, what many people forget is that judges are just lawyers in robes.
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As I've often said, Wisconsin's greatest strength continues to be the dedicated, hardworking people of our state. They go to work everyday, pay their taxes, and raise their kids with good, Midwestern values.
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Language is such a powerful thing. After the earthquake, I went to Haiti and people were talking about how [they] described this feeling of going through an earthquake. People really didn't have the vocabulary - before we had hurricanes. I'd talk with people and they'd say, "We have to name it; it has to have a name."
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The soil of friendship is worn out with constant use. Habit may still attach us to each other, but we feel ourselves fettered by it. Old friends might be compared to old married people without the tie of children.
