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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When evil acts in the world it always manages to find instruments who believe that what they do is not evil but honorable.
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I'm always aware of various audiences, as a part of my training as a journalist and as part of my training as a citizen of Negroland.
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I was too ashamed and afraid to confide in friends, and wanted to convince others and myself that my marriage was a success. I lost myself in my writing. Finding ways for my characters to overcome their problems and make their relationships work helped plaster over the wound caused by my inability to make things right at home.
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If I fell down and hurt myself, I never cried. There was no one to hear me.
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Somebody needs to invent a shower for the mind, not just the body.
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The cloud never comes from the quarter of the horizon from which we watch for it.
