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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Science is organized knowledge. Wisdom is organized life.
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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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I drive a Yukon Flex Fuel, and there's baby seats in the back.
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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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No culture on earth is as heavily narcotized as the industrial West in terms of being inured to the consequences of maladaptive behavior. We pursue a business-as-usual attitude in a surreal atmosphere of mounting crises and irreconcilable contradictions.
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Should hostilities once break out between Japan and the United States, it is not enough that we take Guam and the Philippines, nor even Hawaii and San Francisco. To make victory certain, we would have to march into Washington and dictate the terms of peace in the White House. I wonder if our politicians, among whom armchair arguments about war are being glibly bandied about in the name of state politics, have confidence as to the final outcome and are prepared to make the necessary sacrifices.
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The Grateful Dead played for three hours on a given night, plus sound check.
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The 19th-century pure capitalist model of society was a pyramid, concentrations of enormous wealth in a small group at the top, a not very big middle-class in the middle, and an enormous percentage of the population in the bottom part of the pyramid.
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The cloud never comes from the quarter of the horizon from which we watch for it.
