George Eliot Quotes

I easily sink into mere absorption of what other minds have done, and should like a whole life for that alone.

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I remember reading the cruelest, most awful thing about my hair online. A person speculated about who I was as a person and even read into my personal life based solely off my hairstyle. He or she said I must be lazy because I have short hair. It was just devastating.
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These rules may seem simple enough, but it will require great morale and physical courage to adhere to them. But if carried out in the strict sense of the word it will surely lead to a greater success than could otherwise be attained.
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With all the chaos, pain and suffering in the world, the fact that my adoption of a child from who was living in an orphanage, you know, was the number one story for a week in the world. To me, that says more about our inability to focus on the real problems.
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You don't do things right once in a while. You do things right all the time.
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Acting was just another part of my life, as it still is today. It's 1 of the 10 things I love doing. It's never just been my life. As cheesy as it sounds, all my eggs were never in just one basket. I had a thousand baskets going on.
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I've been training quite hard.
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I played ping-pong with Prince. That's pretty surreal. He gave me a lesson before we played; like, he's great. He's a master at it, so I took the free lesson.
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Whenever I tell people I'm from Miami, they always ask me about the beach. But I can count on one hand the times I went there as a kid.
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There's always pressure playing in the NHL. You want to play your best game every game. Expectations are always gonna be there; it's just important that you know how to handle expectations.
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I think encouraging young people to twerk might be a bad thing. It's a stripper's move. If I had a daughter of nine, I wouldn't want her twerking.
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My home has to feel airy and bright with natural light. I don't switch on lamps until it is literally black outside.
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One of the satisfactions of a genius is his will-power and obstinacy.
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I've been a ballerina since I was two, but I've always wanted to be an actress.
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It's not that we poor men are so powerful to be able to banish the devil. It's that God gives us the power.
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I don't think I ever really knew the right words to 'Hava Nagilah,' which isn't great for a Jewish singer.
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I'm not sought after. I never get enough work. It's the history of my career. There just isn't anything to turn down, let me put it that way.
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Spine transplants are what we really need to take Reagan on.
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I know as I'm taking my dying breath, the ambulance guy will ask me why they cancelled Action.
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I feel really proud of my work on 'Sullivan & Son.' It's a really different character for me. I was excited to play this really tough, sweet smart, quirky girl because that's who I am at my core, but that's never who I was playing. The show is like my pride and joy.
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In some ways, I feel like I've always dabbled in nostalgia. It's just what I do; it comes naturally.
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Despair swallows up cowardice.
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Life is a gift horse in my opinion.
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The way out of the maze of whiteness and blackness that led inevitably, repeatedly, to violent conflict was through the simple recognition of and respect for blacks and whites as not two races but one: the human race.
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I easily sink into mere absorption of what other minds have done, and should like a whole life for that alone.