George Stillman Hillard Quotes
If liberty with law is fire on the hearth, liberty without law is fire on the floor.
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My parents came to see me in a play at Eton when I was 16. And then, when I said I wanted to try for drama school, they knew there was enough passion there for them to be brave and back me.
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Our concern is to heal. Our concern is to bring together.
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If I could only give three words of advice, they would be, 'Tell the truth.' If I got three more words, I'd add, 'All the time.'
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Cooking and eating at home is made even better by the fact that you don't have to worry about driving after a couple of bottles of very nice wine. For me that's the ideal combination: working hard and enjoying the fruits of your labour.
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What is a weed? A plant whose virtues have never been discovered.
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I would lie in bed, and I was nine years old, and say to myself: 'I want to be the richest man in the world.' I've come a long way from there.
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Animation is tremendously resilient. Animation will recover, as art always recovers. There's always cycles of good art.
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It's morally wrong to allow a sucker to keep his money.
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How beautiful maleness is, if it finds its right expression.
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Being inspired is one thing, but completely knocking off a design is another. There is a big difference.
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I do have too many eight-inch heels which I never get to wear.
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In the 1990s, we were certain that Saddam Hussein had a nuclear arsenal. In fact, his factories could barely make soap.
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My work is not my life. I started writing quite late, I didn't have that 'writing is everything, my art is all.' You have to be able to recognise the difference between the two.
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The course of the United States in World War II, I said, was dishonest, dishonorable, and ignominious, and the Sunpapers, by supporting Roosevelt's foreign policy, shared in this disgrace.
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My goal as an actor is always to be as truthful as possible, and to find the truth in the material I am representing. So I think that it’s the same with performing music. But in a way, performing your own music, it’s easier to find the truth in it, because it’s coming from yourself. There’s no translation needed.
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So poisonousAre the ravishments of truth, so fatal to The truth itself, the first idea becomes The hermit in a poet’s metaphors,Who comes and goes and comes and goes all day.
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Ah, how unjust to Nature and himselfIs thoughtless, thankless, inconsistent man!
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I specialize in murders of quiet, domestic interest.
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Young people are being elected for School Boards all over the country.
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To be a contrarian, you've got to be a contrarian against your own people.
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In the 1960s, people like Bob Dylan, his music and words were a threat to the society and mainstream of the time. It shook people alive, and directly and indirectly things changed. But, as I see it, the change is never through the music alone. It's also the circumstances around the music that will cause/create the effect. And sometimes it's just strictly accidental that a piece of music becomes a form of protest.
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The world is slowly evolving into a place where the things that we have seen as being taboo are starting to open up a bit more.
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Man takes his law from the Earth; the Earth takes its law from Heaven; Heaven takes its law from the Tao. The law of the Tao is its being what it is.
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If liberty with law is fire on the hearth, liberty without law is fire on the floor.
