George Eliot Quotes
Gossip is a sort of smoke that comes from the dirty tobacco-pipes of of those who diffuse it: it proves nothing but the bad taste of the smoker.
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Music was a way of rebelling against the whole rah-rah high school thing.
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The problem, when comparing contemporary television to television in 1974, is that TV has become not just bad but sad.
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Actors in general have some place in them that can be sensitive and easily damaged: not damaged in a bad way, but insecurity, because that's what it breeds, especially in females and female-lead types.
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The air is dirty because of the electricity monopolists. They have powerful money lobbyists.
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I want to make sure that people know that I can only be myself - I can't be a spokesperson for people with disabilities, because everybody has a completely different experience. I'm glad that I'm able to inspire parents to see one way to deal with it, but at the same time, I tell a lot of dirty jokes.
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Playing good girls in the 30s was difficult, when the fad was to play bad girls. Actually I think playing bad girls is a bore; I have always had more luck with good girl roles because they require more from an actress.
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The nature of the Catilinarian conspiracy was bad and bloody.
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We are on red alert when it comes to how we are perceiving ourselves as a species. There's no desire to be an adult.
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A person who publishes a book willfully appears before the populace with his pants down. If it is a good book nothing can hurt him. If it is a bad book nothing can help him.
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You learn a whole lot more about a person if they have bad breaks and all those kind of things.
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The keynote of simple folk is bad manners, familiarity. They intrude on one's private soul.
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It's weird how people who are the least close to me or who've never even met me purport to be experts on the real me; and then, sadly, there are those who could be in touch with me but prefer to gossip with strangers about me instead.
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Whenever someone says something bad about you, just confront them on it and just be a man and own up to it. If you said something you shouldn t have said, and it's important to somebody you need to talk to, you need to go talk to them. Be a man. Step up.
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I can discern that certain things have an effect on certain other things, but I don't view those effects as good or bad. If a context and a goal is defined, I could say if it's good or bad. But overall, I don't view things as good or bad.
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I was raised by two actors in a moment in time - the Seventies - when there was no judgment of characters, no heroes and bad guys.
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Even when bad things happen you have to try to use those bad things in a positive manner and really just take the positive out of it.
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Dullness in matters of government is a good sign, and not a bad one - in particular, dullness in parliamentary government is a test of its excellence, an indication of its success.
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I couldn't get that same feeling during the day, with my hands in dirty dish water and the hard sun showing up the dirtiness on the roof tops. And after a time, even at night, the feeling of God didn't last.
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It doesn't matter how good or bad the product is; the fact is that people don't read anymore.
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It is a stupid observation, but the Labour Party are not an smart lot, are they? I mean, if all those people were born in the same town, you would blame bad parenting, wouldn't you all?
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There's a tendency, especially among academics, to see politics as deeply dirty and deeply egotistical.
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If I believed in it, and it wasn't productive for the team, I wouldn't do it.
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Gossip is a sort of smoke that comes from the dirty tobacco-pipes of of those who diffuse it: it proves nothing but the bad taste of the smoker.
