George Eliot Quotes
Quotes to Explore
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I liked the fact that my father had a lot of expectations from my brother. I probably wanted to be that person who he could be proud of.
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That's my suggestion for kids who want to act, by the way: Make sure it's really your choice, get out of it when it stops being fun, and get an education.
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I look forward to representing the voters of District 30 and moving the state in a new direction.
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An arts education helps build academic skills and increase academic performance, while also providing alternative opportunities to reward the skills of children who learn differently.
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I've always written about things that cause me to feel something.
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Of all the forces that are exerted on us over our lifetime, at least for me, love has been the most powerful of all.
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Fear of emotional contact with men out of fear of being a sexual suspect makes boys, ironically, even more powerless before girls. Homophobia is like telling the United States it will be a sissy nation if it doesn’t get all its oil from OPEC.
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Suffered from alienation,carried the weight on my own,had to be so strong,so I believed,and now I know I've succeeded,in finding the place I conceived.
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The stars are forth, the moon above the tops Of the snow-shining mountains. Beautiful! I linger yet with Nature, for the Night Hath been to me a more familiar face Than that of man; and in her starry shade Of dim and solitary loveliness, I learn'd the language of another world.
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I don't even know what Instagram is, All of this high-tech stuff is supposed to set us free and make life easier. To me, it makes it more difficult and demanding.
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The people who oppose your ideas are inevitably those who represent the established order that your ideas will upset.
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My wife and I are art collectors and architectural crazies.
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I want to earn a reader's capacity to be moved.
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Attitude is more important than the past, than education, than money, than circumstances, than what people do or say. It is more important than appearance, giftedness, or skill.
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Science is objective. And in my view we cannot take any experimental results seriously except in the light of good explanations of them.
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I love drama. I love to play an arc.
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Can you explore real issues as a fake character? Yes - it's called acting. Or fiction. But acting is not a method of engaging with the actual world, just as pretending to know what a character might eat does not a novel make - much less make that make-believe real.
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When I look back on what I've done, I think I'm drawn to obsession, perhaps.
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Selectively choosing what gets condemned and forcing people to join sides while hiding behind semantics is pure evil.
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If you fall in love, it's because it captures you and sweeps you off your feet.
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Mystery and disappointment are not absolutely indispensable to the growth of love, but they are, very often, its powerful auxiliaries.
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I am truly at my happiest not when I am writing an aria for an actor or making a grand political or social point. I am at my happiest when I've figured out a fun way for somebody to slip on a banana peel.
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I feel like one of the things that is central to American life is the religious experience, and I think that the experience of being Muslim in America is as valid and as important a perspective on the religious experience of America as evangelical Christianity or Judaism - whatever it may be.
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Might, could, would - they are contemptible auxiliaries.
