George Eliot Quotes
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Whether or not we communicate it, I definitely seek my mom's acceptance and approval for everything. She has a strong commercial sense of movies and is a quintessential audience. When she doesn't like something, I know there is reason to worry. When she loves something, there is reason to celebrate.
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I quite like the drama of an encore. I think an encore is for those artists who are inclined to do dramatic gestures, and I certainly would say I am inclined towards them.
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Gandhi's ideas were rooted in a wide experience of a freshly globalized world.
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Of course a woman who decides to work full time as a mother in the home can be happy and deserves full respect from us. Motherhood is one of the most challenging and creative jobs anyone can do. The goal is to remake the world so that our choices are not so stark.
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My dad is a gentle and brilliant Iranian violinist.
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In my household, a Trapper-Keeper was too expensive - we had plain old three-ring notebooks - and I always wanted a Trapper-Keeper.
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I had no desire to crash a man's world.
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I'm hanging out with my New York friends, my Jersey boys, my family and loving every single second of it.
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I moved to New York when I was 21 and worked between 40 and 70 hours a week. Then I invested it all. It was really just a hustle. But I was kind of raised to work like that, so to me, it seemed very normal and natural.
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Black unemployment is twice white unemployment and has been for decade after decade.
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I got into rhythmic gymnastics when I was four years old.
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I'm going to try to tell stories and let each tale skate its own way into dark or light territory as the needs of the story steer me.
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With 'posts' running in the millions, Internet message boards have become an essential part of the savvy investor's arsenal.
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You are the music while the music lasts.
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Graffiti writers were the most interesting people in hip hop. They were the mad scientists, the mad geniuses, the weird ones.
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I think if you play a character that is fearless, then it's boring. I think that's what was so incredible about Harrison Ford, is that he always seemed like he was never going to survive it, he's always scared, and yet he always does survive it somehow.
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Michael is a funny character, for whom I have a great deal of affection. He sat across his desk and seemed to be a bit of a blunt fellow. We began talking about the characters and he opened up about his vision.
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I have a lot of fun writing for artists, but I'm learning to apply that fun to myself.
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We need to go faster on structural reforms in France.
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If your opponent is tapping, your technique is good. If he is not tapping, your technique sucks.
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There is no loneliness like the loneliness of crowds, especially to those who are unaccustomed to them.
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When I write a song and come up with an arrangement and a vocal part, it's always a challenge trying to find a singer who can interpret it sort of the way that I hear it, and it's a very difficult thing to do. I mean, singing is like playing an instrument - everybody does it a little bit different - singing maybe even more so.
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A young wine is like a horse, it is extremely vibrant. It needs taming. It has lots of life, the edges need bevelling and we need to reduce the tannins.
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Creeds of terror.
