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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When parents or gamers ask me, 'What's the best game to play?' I say that playing face-to-face is more beneficial than playing online.
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It is impossible to get out of a problem by using the same kind of thinking that it took to get into it.
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I've noticed that in the U.S., when the president hits the three-year mark in office, he goes into re-election campaigning.
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I always disliked that anytime you had gays represented in - and there were some exceptions, certainly - but represented in popular fiction, they were usually the goofy neighbor next door, you know? And I just thought, 'Well, I know a lot of gay people, and they're just as varied as the heterosexual people I know.'
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People who have money have an obligation. I wouldn't say I'm entitled to tell them what to do with it but to use it wisely.
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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.
