George Eliot Quotes
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Reproof on her lip, but a smile in her eye.
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Now that I have kids, I don't want to do so many daredevily things anymore.
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I have often said one of the reasons more blacks don't support Republicans is because they don't trust the GOP establishment.
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Oh God, my choice of film has never depended on the hero. In fact, you will see that some of my categorical mistakes had nothing to do with the hero in it.
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I had a wonderful mother who wanted my sister and me to have everything, even though money was a very prominent thing we didn't have. But we had a very happy childhood - pretty much ideal, in fact.
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Somebody gave me this drum machine and somebody else asked me to program something for a project. I really liked programming and I was really interested in using the drum machine.
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There are no lines in nature, only areas of colour, one against another.
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I full well realize that politics is a rough and tumble business, but politics should not be reduced to lobbing partisan hand grenades. Politics is not war. Terrorism is.
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Scientifically speaking, if I say something, or it gets misquoted, or people put a spin on it... I mean, are you interested, really, in what people are saying?
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I wrote fiction during my entire childhood, from age 4 to 18, and started writing plays when I went to Yale and Oxford.
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God is decisively drawn to the humble.
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You need to have tremendous confidence in your work, even a touch of arrogance, chutzpah. Many very fine researchers lack intellectual daring. It's human nature to want to be cozy, secure. But that can be a cul de sac.
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I mean, the idea of losing a parent is really inconceivable. I think there's just an undertone of dread about the subject, so people don't talk about it and don't prepare for it.
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The idea of us telling a story where a character doesn't get everything he wants at the end is one of the relatable things - dealing with failures and missteps in life - and it's something that's so rarely dealt with in movies, especially kids' movies.
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I was a fan of Jon Jones. I thought he was great.
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Scientists care deeply about their place in that culture, and their contribution to it.
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I love inventing names, but I also collect unusual names, so that I can look through my notebook and choose one that suits a new character.
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We're paying a lot of attention to the iPad. But we're expanding that to a tablet focus.
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Even when I'm playing a lawyer or a doctor, I want to play a person. A human being.
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When your culture comes from watching TV every day, you're bombarded with images of things that seem cool, places that seem interesting, people who have jobs and careers and opportunities. None of that happened where I was. You're almost taught to realize it's not for you.
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WikiLeaks' disclosures should be protected under the First Amendment.
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One of my favorite days, yes. All day, massaging Harrison Ford. That was rough.
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Like a beast in a pen, I’m cut off From my friends, freedom, the Sun. But the hunters are gaining ground; I’ve nowhere else to run.
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We are all apt to believe what the world believes about us.
