George Eliot Quotes
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My dream as an actor growing up was always to challenge myself to different genres, different roles, and it's actually rare that an actor's given that opportunity to do that.
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I was a Labour Party man but I found myself to the left of the Labour party in Nelson, militant as that was. I came to London and in a few months I was a Trotskyist.
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Art is the window to man's soul. Without it, he would never be able to see beyond his immediate world; nor could the world see the man within.
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Go West, young man.
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There is no such thing as a little country. The greatness of a people is no more determined by their numbers than the greatness of a man is by his height.
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The American Dream is that any man or woman, despite of his or her background, can change their circumstances and rise as high as they are willing to work.
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I believe that in the historic and religious nature, marriage is between a man and a woman.
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Scientology is the study of knowingness. It increases one's knowingness, but if a man were totally aware of what was going on around him, he would find it relatively simple to handle any outnesses in that.
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When a man knows he is to be hanged in a fortnight, it concentrates his mind wonderfully.
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What's an expert? I read somewhere, that the more a man knows, the more he knows, he doesn't know. So I suppose one definition of an expert would be someone who doesn't admit out loud that he knows enough about a subject to know he doesn't really know how much.
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A good man would prefer to be defeated than to defeat injustice by evil means.
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The true measure of a man is how he treats someone who can do him absolutely no good.
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In mid-life the man wants to see how irresistible he still is to younger women. How they turn their hearts to stone and more or less commit a murder of their marriage I just don't know, but they do.
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I consider no man honest who does not observe towards other nations the principles which he desires to be observed towards his own: and therefore I will not interfere in your domestic questions.
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The man who lets himself be bored is even more contemptible than the bore.
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Man is always looking for someone to boast to; woman is always looking for a shoulder to put her head on.
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To measure the man, measure his heart.
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As a heterosexual man, I've never really doubted my sexuality, but I've had men in my life and thought, 'If I was gay, I'd be with him' - you know?
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Don’t worry about being normal. It’s an awful thing to aspire to.
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I have never yet exercised the privilege of voting, but had I been called upon at the last presidential election to do so, I should most certainly have cast my vote for Mr. Clay.
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Actors are always looking for actor-proof parts. A part so good you can't screw it up!
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At school, I was the classroom clown - I was always being thrown out for being naughty. Before I left, a teacher called me in and suggested I became an actor.
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I see you laugh, and rightly so. What is this silly old fool rambling on about? Good for you. Never respect years, only deeds.
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But what is opportunity to the man who can't use it?
