George Eliot Quotes
No story is the same to us after a lapse of time; or rather we who read it are no longer the same interpreters.
Quotes to Explore
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I'm not a great fiction reader. I love history. I love history and philosophy.
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It is my first preference to do films with social significance. Art cinema has given me credibility and status as an actor, but commercial cinema has given me a comfortable living.
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I think you need brains to do any Shakespeare with any authority. I could do Shakespeare, but not with any authority.
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I can't take the theater side out of myself.
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The formula for achieving middle-class success is simple: Finish high school; don't have a child before the age of 20; and get married before having the child.
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We don't need bigger government. We need to shrink the size of government.
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When I went to the 'Rush' audition, I was blown away by the script. I thought it was fantastic.
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Life is like the ocean, it goes up and down.
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To rise from error to truth is rare and beautiful.
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Apparently, Daniel Craig said I'd be a great Bond. Daniel, why did you say that? Dropped me right in it! What an honor it would be, but also, what an indication of change.
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The Soviet Union was a very useful ally in the defeat of Nazi Germany.
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That's what you want to do as an older artist - you want to reinvent, but there has to be that vein in there for why people were listening to you before in the first place.
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By a lie, a man... annihilates his dignity as a man.
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There's always a source for humor.
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To expect for me to be one-way every time you see me is to expect me to be a one-dimensional man, which I've never been. I've always applauded my efforts to be diverse and multi-faceted.
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I never envisioned when I was reading that comic as a 17-year-old that I would have the opportunity to actually play the character.
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You'd never look at a Rembrandt and say, 'That's just wood and canvas and paint - how much?!' It's all about how many people want it. It works on a pair of jeans as well - they're just material and stitching, and as soon as you walk out of the shop, they're worth nothing.
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You can be arrested and not charged. You can be arrested and have no right to counsel.
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But to be the best, you must face the best. And to overcome your fear, you must deal with the best.
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I'd love to have a program like 'Dr. Laura.' I studied psychology at the University of Miami, and when I rode the bus home from school, perfect strangers would strike up conversations with me and end up telling me their life stories. I think they could sense that I was studying to help people. That, or I have a face like a priest.
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Directing made me realise what I do as an actor that's extraneous, it focuses your mind on story, story, story.
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I don't necessarily believe in the ideology of cinema verité. I think by the very fact that you have a camera there you are affecting the story and you are influencing it.
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Philip Kitcher thinks that mathematics is surprisingly like empirical science. Few mathematicians would agree; philosophers too, from Socrates on, have held the opposite opinion.
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No story is the same to us after a lapse of time; or rather we who read it are no longer the same interpreters.
