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 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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I just worked my own personal thoughts into my music, and just kept at it until I found a way in.
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Education has not traditionally been a large concern in presidential elections, presumably because the president does not run schools.
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Talk when you talk, walk when you walk, and die when you die.
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Alan King, a comedian I adored, was considered society, and I was considered the Jewish kid from the neighborhood.
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A burning desire is the greatest motivator of every human action. The desire for success implants 'success consciousness' which, in turn, creates a vigorous and ever-increasing 'habit of success'.
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Everybody just asks me 'Are you going to make Hollywood movies now?' First, I don't know. Second, I never dreamed about that; I just dreamed about making movies with Tarantino. So if I can make movies with a lot of amazing directors - yes.
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Creeds of terror.
