George Eliot Quotes
There is a great deal of unmapped country within us which would have to be taken into account in an explanation of our gusts and storms.
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I love the immediacy of an audience being there and reacting. I'm spoiled, having grown up in theater.
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When I was in jail, I was a lot of people's favorite person. I practically ran the jail. I had more freedom than the police.
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Science and religion are the two most powerful forces in the world. Having them at odds... is not productive.
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I am not in politics to make more money.
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I'm so bad at baseball, I can't even hit now.
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Unquestionably, there is progress. The average American now pays out twice as much in taxes as he formerly got in wages.
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Man's enemies are not demons, but human beings like himself.
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You wouldn't recognize me from one project to the next.
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The promotion of family continuity and stability is a legitimate state interest.
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I worked with young directors all my life, only young directors.
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I have a degree in European history, which didn't necessarily have any direct impact on my career, but I'm grateful I studied something other than acting in college.
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For years, I have repeatedly said that Maryland taxpayers were being overtaxed and overcharged.
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Dance has always been my passion, and I love it.
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I can't do choreographed movement. It has to come from my heart... and my pelvis.
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There's a lot of activism that doesn't deal with empowerment, and you have to empower yourself in order to be relevant to any type of struggle.
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I never bought the commercial thing, at any stage of the game.
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Homosexuals reject the process of healing because it's too painful and time-consuming.
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I now realize that I am a gay man before anything else. Other gays may think they're a Jew first, or black, or a banker, but I'm gay.
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While I did not get any formal training in acting, every summer vacation, from the age of five, my father would take me to Ooty with him, and I would do films as a child star. I did over 10 films like that, and it was understood that post finishing my education, I would become an actor.
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Old age: I fall asleep during the funerals of my friends.
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You have record companies that sign acts that they think are great, and then they never do anything. Acts that they don't think are really going to do much end up having a career. I don't think anyone really knows what it is that drives somebody to get on their computer and want to download a song.
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I was 46 when 'Cold Mountain' came out. I was settled. We had a nice house in Raleigh and a horse farm.
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To fight the Empire is to be infected by its derangement … Whoever defeats the Empire becomes the Empire; it proliferates like a virus … thereby it becomes its enemies.
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There is a great deal of unmapped country within us which would have to be taken into account in an explanation of our gusts and storms.
