Elizabeth Gaskell Quotes
Oh, Mr. Thornton, I am not good enough!' 'Not good enough! Don't mock my own deep feeling of unworthiness.
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One of the ideas that I wanted to highlight, which is actually a very bipartisan idea - it's not just about conservatives - is this worship of wealth, the CEO saviour.
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Hollywood, the business, would be just fine if someone were to destroy the Hollywood sign. The city's there is the airport - its point of entry and exit, and in some ways its identity.
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'The Road' is about that fear that all parents can have. What's going to happen to your child if you're not around? It takes those concerns to an extreme. In the film, without me the boy has no food, no shelter, no resources at all.
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I've always thought of fat as just a descriptive word.
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I love singing. It's who I am. When I act, I take a small part of myself and just magnify it, but when I'm singing, that's who I am. I don't write music, so I choose songs that I would have written.
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What is needed in the theater, in fact for all our art forms, is a vibrant critical tradition.
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The greatest discovery of all time is that a person can change his future by merely changing his attitude.
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In his enigmatic and cunning story 'The Crown of Feathers,' Isaac Bashevis Singer refuses to produce uncontradictory evidence of God's will but rather mixes all signals, jams the evidence, stalls every conclusion.
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My dad was vehemently opposed to electric guitars. He did not look on that kind of music as legitimate in any way.
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Cyclists need to help themselves and should not jump red lights. I would ride in London, but I certainly wouldn't ride like that; you just have to be careful. I can understand going down the outside of traffic, but you should obey the rules of the road because we're all road users.
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From the time of independences until the end of the Cold War, in spite of the participation of a considerable number of African states in the non-aligned movement, everyone in fact chose to align with one or another of the two major blocks.
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I can imagine that the Iraqis undertake the destruction out of fear. If they had denied it, if they had said no, that certainly would have played into the hands of those that would like to take armed action immediately. I have no illusions in that regard.
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Across the board, women are unhappy with our industry.
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I think all writers write from the time they're really young, and you just start asking the question, 'What if?'
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The public's perception of your show is what it is, and you don't get to complain how people perceive your show or talk about it.
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I think the deepest problem is between my parents and me. I just don't know if it will ever be the same.
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For me, it's not about being the best designer. I'm interested in being the best partner. The best collaborator.
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It takes a couple of years just to get the background and knowledge that you need before you can go into detailed training for your mission.
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I'm someone who'd never base how happy I am on how much money I have, or how good a restaurant is because of how posh it is.
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It's about very talented writers, directors, producers, and actors being in a position for their projects to be supported, but there's just not enough black projects being made.
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When Charles Dickens arrived in Boston Harbor, where he started, they had to keep it secret because there was such a mob of people expecting him, and they actually chased down his carriage at the hotel, the Parker House Hotel.
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I had the fortunate experience to play with people from different schools of music. Sam Rivers is from the fundamentalist school of music.
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There should be a straight-forward, comprehensive and affordable Medicare drug benefit. We do not have that now.
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Oh, Mr. Thornton, I am not good enough!' 'Not good enough! Don't mock my own deep feeling of unworthiness.
