George Eliot Quotes
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The first 'Monsters, Inc.' represents starting at Pixar for me, I have a special place in my heart for it. So to be able to tell a story with those ideas is an honor.
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I just have to go out and fight my fight and fight to win.
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My day-to-day look is inspired by comfort, color and just how I'm feeling that day.
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Those who speak up, those who use their connections, are more likely to succeed than those who sit and wait.
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It feels nice to be loved, but let me tell you there are 10 times more better looking, stylish and talented guys than me. So there's no solid reason for me to be proud! I don't think I have done anything extraordinary to change people's lives.
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I always said punk was an attitude. It was never about having a Mohican haircut or wearing a ripped T-shirt. It was all about destruction, and the creative potential within that.
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You must photograph where you are involved; where you are overwhelmed by what you see before you; where you hold your breath while releasing the shutter, not because you are afraid of jarring the camera, but because you are seeing with your guts wide open to the sweet pain of an image that is part of your life.
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Avoid any specific discussion of public policy at public meetings.
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Most people don't know how to tell stories.
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I'm very, very lazy. I love to sit in a chair and look out the window and do nothing.
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The moving finger writes, and having written moves on. Nor all thy piety nor all thy wit, can cancel half a line of it.
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There is a healthy fraternal rivalry, but nothing serious and we both have been looking for a project to do together. I guess he may direct me in a project some day.
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They talked about me as if I were Mother Teresa, and that every time I get a paycheck I go and send it to poor people and that we spend every free moment helping out people less fortunate. That was an enormous exaggeration.
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I have only recently got interested in film, and it is a strange way of working in many ways. But actually, when it is at its best, it's quite an extraordinary way of working between a director and an actor, to really explore an inner life.
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I had all of one nanosecond to savor the news before we had to move on to other problems.
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I've started doing yoga and meditation, but I'm not very good at that kind of thing and turning my brain off.
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My worlds collide. When one things happens, it just starts a domino effect - everything else goes on.
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I am trying to persuade my family to spend more time in China. It's no fun to be in exile. I can't even figure out the basic 26 letters, let alone operate, in English. I often feel that although I've found the sky of freedom above my head, I've lost the soil I stand on. I need to be back in my motherland, where I can find inspirations.
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Elvis, heal me, save me. Elvis, make me be born again in the perfect Elvis light.
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There's no road map. There's no textbook on how grief works and when your heart will be open - or if it ever will.
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It is fascinating to watch legislators turn away from their usual corporate grips when they hear the growing thunder of the people.
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You know, John Coltrane has been sort of a god to me. Seems like, in a way, he didn't get the inspiration out of other musicians. He had it. When you hear a cat do a thing like that, you got to go along with him. I think I heard Coltrane before I really got close to Miles [Davis]. Miles had a tricky way of playing his horn that I didn't understand as much as I did Coltrane. I really didn't understand what Coltrane was doing, but it was so exciting the thing that he was doing.
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There is no sense of ease like the ease we felt in those scenes where we were born.
