Elizabeth Gaskell Quotes
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What I've learned is that people have a desire to talk after the first line of reporters go away, and they are no longer speaking out of shock.
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I became fascinated by marionettes, which I first saw in Venice. They were so haunted and so alive. You walked by them, and you could feel their presence, with their beady eyes just fixed on you.
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I'm not on Twitter, and I don't read the papers day to day, so I am somewhat protected. There's this weird separation between your private and public persona.
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There's the wonder of being able to do research from your own living room, of course. I do find that my biggest research issue, though, is how to frame my questions.
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I have a cousin called Flirta D who was big in the grime world, which made me really cool at school. 'Flirta D's your cousin?' 'Yeah, buddy.' 'He must be a millionaire!'
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I had nothing to offer anybody except my own confusion.
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Directing 'Fifty Shades of Grey' has been an intense and incredible journey for which I am hugely grateful. I have Universal to thank for that.
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A thick head can do as much damage as a hard heart.
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I very much admire Uri Ariel. I think he's a man of principles, and effective, and I love him.
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When you're old, you are more certain of who you are, and that may be a good thing or a bad thing.
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Climate change is a global problem. The planet is warming because of the growing level of greenhouse gas emissions from human activity. If this trend continues, truly catastrophic consequences are likely to ensue from rising sea levels, to reduced water availability, to more heat waves and fires.
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Happiness is when what you think, what you say, and what you do are in harmony.
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I just wrapped a new show for Amazon called 'Transparent.'
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The times may have changed, but the people are still the same. We're still looking for love, and that will always be our struggle as human beings.
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There came into the world an unlimited abundance of everything people need. But people need everything except unlimited abundance.
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My mother had early-onset Alzheimer's, and it took her four years to die. She was only 44; I was 14.
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The most important thing to me is that it's all really raw.
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I travel the world visiting global health programs as an ambassador for the global health organization, PSI, and sometimes the disconnect I see is truly striking: people can get cold Coca Cola, but far too infrequently malaria drugs; most own mobile phones, but don't have equal access to pre-natal care.
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He bade me observe it, and I should always find that the calamities of life were shared among the upper and lower part of mankind; but that the middle station had the fewest disasters.
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Lenscrafters is upset with Tea Partier Michele Bachmann because she called Planned Parenthood 'the Lenscrafters of abortion.' Lenscrafters released a statement today calling her 'the Costco of crazy.'
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I am very glad not only to complete the grand slam, but to become Olympic champion alone makes me happy.
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A pre-emptive war in 'defense' of freedom would surely destroy freedom, because one simply cannot engage in barbarous action without becoming a barbarian, because one cannot defend human values by calculated and unprovoked violence without doing mortal damage to the values one is trying to defend.
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Who are we? Whom do we want to become? How do we perceive ourselves? How do we want to be perceived? These questions of identity are often at the core of our own internal struggles. Resolve them, and you are closer to being free.
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The cloud never comes from the quarter of the horizon from which we watch for it.
