George Eliot Quotes
It is painful to be told that anything is very fine and not be able to feel that it is fine--something like being blind, while people talk of the sky.
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A woman who demands further gun control legislation is like a chicken who roots for Colonel Sanders.
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I read about violent things. I think what I get out of that is entertainment by learning about different things, and reading the genre and getting an understanding of motivations. But at the end of the day, it's still a book, and I can walk away.
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You're not a baby boomer if you don't have a visceral recollection of a Kennedy and a King assassination, a Beatles breakup, a U.S. defeat in Vietnam, and a Watergate.
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People are really paying attention to the comic-book genre, and there's a lot of time and attention being invested in these projects with a wonderful sense of quality control.
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The primary problem in many modernizing societies is not liberty but the creation of a legitimate public order. Men may, of course, have order without liberty, but they cannot have liberty without order.
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I'm the worst person to be stuck with in a traffic jam.
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Your barber always knows everything that goes on in the town, doesn't he?
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I put Tabasco sauce over everything. Or I put it on pretty much anything that wouldn't taste gross - I mean, I wouldn't put it on salad, but I like it on fried chicken, nachos... a lot of stuff.
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My mother is the reason I'm in fashion. She worshiped it. Unfortunately, she infected me.
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We're so marriage-obsessed, we think that only married people are families.
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Victory Over Violence is an organization that was created to help fund shelters for women and children.
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I started boxing for exercise, and on the very first day, the trainer got in the ring with me and said, 'Whoever controls the breathing in the ring controls the fight.' I immediately passed out.
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If you don't really have a dream, you can't really push yourself; you don't really know what the target is.
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Only when I came to America did I think of myself as British.
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The sixty-minute drama form has become very rich.
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I have been absolutely hag-ridden with ambition. If I could wish to have anything in the world it would be to be free of ambition.
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I do not have one theme for each season, I just try to make beautiful clothes all year round.
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Beauty of whatever kind, in its supreme development, invariably excites the sensitive soul to tears.
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I'm pretty athletic and I play basketball a lot.
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There's something about some of my favorite musicals that they put me in a sort of heightened state where I feel like I'm floating out of the theater rather than walking out.
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There's a tree that grows in Brooklyn. Some people call it the Tree of Heaven. No matter where its seed falls, it makes a tree which struggles to reach the sky.
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Some deeply untrusting actors - the kind that need to know exactly what's what and are completely insecure - might be quite good within the parameters of a certain sort of acting.
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It didn’t pay very much, but it enabled me to get other jobs doing art criticism, which I didn’t want to do very much, but as so often when you exhibit reluctance to do something, people think you must be very good at it. If I had set out to be an art critic, I might never have succeeded.
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It is painful to be told that anything is very fine and not be able to feel that it is fine--something like being blind, while people talk of the sky.
