George Eliot Quotes
Quotes to Explore
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Popularity should be no scale for the election of politicians. If it would depend on popularity, Donald Duck and The Muppets would take seats in senate.
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Gains in corporate profits depend in large part on accelerating global economic growth.
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I have never felt anchored when it comes to fashion. I've always had to depend on a stylist helping me to figure it out.
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Of course it would depend on the project, but I don't think I could ever separate myself from my aesthetic.
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We are addicted to our egotism, our likes and dislikes and prejudices, and depend upon them for our own sense of identity.
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Depth of friendship does not depend on length of acquaintance.
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But I've had to act and not depend on my voice so much.
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There's various scenarios and interpretations about that urgency. I think first we have to get the facts. There are too many interpretations of the facts, and those scenarios could change based on the variables incorporated in those projections.
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Good has two meanings: it means that which is good absolutely and that which is good for somebody.
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So difficult it is to show the various meanings and imperfections of words when we have nothing else but words to do it with.
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Necessity is an interpretation, not a fact.
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'Bowling For Columbine' and 'Gus Van Sant's Elephant' really intrigued me. With 'Bowling For Columbine', I think Michael Moore just gave the perfect exploration of both the mass media interpretation of the event and going into the minds of these kids. These were messed-up kids who had hit a point of no return.
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I like to hear what other people's interpretations are, because people come up with things I'd never thought about.
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If you can't get yourself understood, you may have trouble, so you need some interpretation every now and again wherever you might be.
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When you want to put something into your part that is not in the play, you must ask the author-or some other author-to lead up to the interpolation for you. Never forget that the effect of a line may depend not on its delivery, but on something said earlier in the play, either by somebody else or by yourself, and that if you change it, it may be necessary to change the whole first act as well.
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It is a fact capable of amiable interpretation that ladies are not the worst disposed towards a new acquaintance of their own sex, because she has points of inferiority.
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You know, there's a certain irony in the fact that our lives and perhaps the lives of everyone on Earth may depend on Captain Patterson's sex appeal.
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I don't see any point. I'm not sort of playing him as much as I am Glenn's interpretation of him, ... Both Joe and Allison's personalities act as springboards for Glenn's imagination. I don't think we are meant to ape them, or ape their lives.
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There is something cosmic in his interpretation of the movement of earth and sky and weather forms in his paintings...
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Scouting is a game for boys under the leadership of boys under the direction of a man.
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Then she laughed, a bubbling, deliciously girlish laugh, and the Thing relaxed its hold on her heart, turned up its toes, and died.
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I would really have liked to have gone to Broadway with 'A Streetcar Named Desire.' I was proud of that.
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All meanings, we know, depend on the key of interpretation.
