George Eliot Quotes
The worst service, I fancy, that anyone can do for truth, is to set silly people writing on its behalf.
Quotes to Explore
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I was certainly a better actor after my five years in Hollywood. I had learned to be natural - never to exaggerate. I found I could act on the stage in just the same way as I had acted in a studio: using my ordinary voice, eliminating gestures, keeping everything extremely simple.
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Susan B. Anthony must be turning in her grave if she knew that millions of women who have the right to vote are not exercising it. Why? Because they haven't got the interest or the time, or they have just given up hope.
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God is like the sun. When the sun shines, it shines for everyone. God is for everyone.
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To me, a critic is some loser who has no idea... someone with an opinion. We all have opinions. No offense, but what makes them dictate what is cool and what is not.
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I had no interest in sports so I didn't make friends in that traditional way where kids are in public school and they go and they join clubs, and play sports. So I kind of had to find my own way to make friends and get attention and so I just was the class clown.
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I go to all these photo shoots, and each time I figure out something new about myself and what I want to wear.
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National independence, and the preceding political struggles, helped create the space for literary creation in many post-colonial countries. Much of modern Indian or Chinese literature is inconceivable without the political movement for freedom from foreign rule.
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No, you never get any fun out of the things you haven't done.
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Those boos really motivate me to make something happen.
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Ain't no place like New Orleans. It's one of kind.
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What I care about is readers because without readers I can't make a living... And I think it's a bad thing for the world if people don't read anymore. I want people to read a lot.
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I think that designers and architects need to educate the people who don't quite know what they do and make a strong case for why it's valuable and why it changes the game. I think waiting for people to come around to it just won't do.
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My grown man crush is Morris Chestnut. He's just timeless!
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I love Mickey Mouse more than any woman I have ever known.
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The world I travel is my inspiration. I name my dresses after cities that inspire me.
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The legal bias for special protection for women has begun to wreak havoc with the Constitution's guarantee of equal protection.
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We have Christians against Muslims against Jews. They're making incompatible claims on real estate in the Middle East as though God were some kind of omniscient real estate broker parsing out parcels of land to his chosen flock. People are literally dying over ancient literature.
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The adulation from viewers is a huge stimulant for me, and it keeps me going.
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The character of Johnny Drama was a lot of fun to play.
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Now, when I was in the Army, writing was my hobby.
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Growing up, I loved to play. Writing was a natural outtake of play. I realize now, having kids, that maybe that's unusual. Living out in the middle of nowhere, I entertained myself by writing.
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One in whose head is conceit, Think not that he will ever listen to truth.
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I acted before I sang. And I did The Cosby Show, and things like that. But the music kind of came first. And it was a part of my essence. So I knew that I would evolve into this world.
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The worst service, I fancy, that anyone can do for truth, is to set silly people writing on its behalf.
