- William Hazlitt
(04/10/1778 – 09/18/1830)
English writer
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| Died 04/09 | Died 04/10 | Died 04/11 | Death Dates |
"Though familiarity may not breed contempt, it takes off the edge of admiration."
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"One is never more on trial than in the moment of excessive good fortune."
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"There are men so incorrigibly lazy that no inducement that you can offer will tempt them to work; so eaten up by vice that virtue is abhorrent to them, and so inveterably dishonest that theft is to them a master passion."
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"Put it before them briefly so they will read it, clearly so they will appreciate it, picturesquely so they will remember it and, above all, accurately so they will be guided by its light."
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"Being a woman has only bothered me in climbing trees."
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"No woman has ever so comforted the distressed—or so distressed the comfortable."
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"We called him 'mumbles.' He didn't speak his words very loud. The sound man was always saying, 'Kid, speak up!' But he mumbled his way to a fortune."
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"Walk the street with us into history. Get off the sidewalk."
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"Working gets in the way of living."
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"The road to Easy Street goes through the sewer."
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| "Writing is pretty crummy on the nerves." |  |
"It doesn't work if the bad guys kill his mother's uncle's friend's neighbor's pet dog. You've got to make the stakes high."
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| "I try to keep away from being bigheaded. That's what causes people to lose the acting thing. They start being commercial, and then they stink for the rest of their life. But there are several respected adult actors who were child actors that started very young. I'm going to try and model myself after Kurt Russell and Jodie Foster. Just keep learning from the role and not just go for the money." |  |
| Born 04/09 | Born 04/10 | Born 04/11 | Birth Dates | |
| Died 04/09 | Died 04/10 | Died 04/11 | Death Dates |