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William Hazlitt Quotes

The public have neither shame or gratitude.

William Hazlitt

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: critic
Nationality: english
Birth: April 10, 1778 - September 18, 1830

Topics

Gratitude Shame Public Neither

To play someone when the character masks their own emotions, doesn't understand their own emotions, has no release for their own emotions, and yet is full of emotion - that is a much harder character to play than someone who has somewhere to put it.

Character Someone Emotions Play Own

What is important, I think, is to reach as many people as you can and do it as well as you can. Reach them and inspire them or amuse them, or maybe in some odd moments help them to discover something they hadn't thought of before.

People Inspire Think Thought Help

We all have challenges. You can let them be obstacles or roadblocks, or you can use them.

Challenges Obstacles You Roadblocks

I would have preferred to have been in a film where I could've been more authentic or more human, where the dialogue and my approach to the part could have been more real.

More Human Real Dialogue Where Film

In the late '70s, maybe just before I started, there was still an attitude that if you did film you didn't do TV and vice versa, but that's gone now.

Attitude You Late Now Vice Gone

I don't mind being distracted. I don't want to sit there in utter silence and type. If the phone rings, I usually answer it, speak for a few minutes and return to writing, or go for a walk in and out of the rooms. I don't mind a break.

Walk Silence Mind Writing Speak Go

Obviously the imagination is fueled by emotions beyond the control of the conscious mind.

Joyce Carol Oates

Imagination Mind Control Emotions

It's not like I am a junkie that wants to throw himself from very tall buildings, but some people are, and I love them kind of people.

Love I Am People Buildings Kind

When I was 23, I climbed this mountain in Alaska called Devil's Thumb alone. It was incredibly dangerous, and I did it because I thought that if I did something that hard and pulled it off, my life was gonna be transformed. And of course, nothing happened. But I get the search for purpose.

Life Alone Purpose Mountain Thought

I see people as haunted by the selves they don't know... I don't have children, but I have nieces and nephews, and one thing I notice is how fascinated they are by stories of their lives before they can remember.

Diane Setterfield

Children People Remember Know See

I am a deficit hawk.

I Am Hawk Am Deficit

I think since I was kid people told me that they thought I was funny.

Funny People Me Think Thought Kid

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