George Eliot Quotes
Quotes to Explore
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My parents divorced when I was seven. Because divorce is messy, for good or ill, they sent me to boarding school.
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The most striking development of the great depression of 1929 is a profound skepticism of the future of contemporary society among large sections of the American people.
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A church is a place in which gentlemen who have never been to heaven brag about it to persons who will never get there.
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In Art, man reveals himself and not his objects.
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I think this happens to a lot of people, men and women, where you reach a point in your life and all of a sudden realize that things have changed. You suddenly realize that people are coming up behind you, that maybe somebody might want to replace you for less money.
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I find the whole situation of confronting an audience terrifying.
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From a spectator point of view, Test cricket is not important; people hardly watch Test cricket. But as a player, Tests are the real thing. You have to concentrate for five days. It's a lot of time, and not easy to do it day in and day out. If people have played 70-100 Tests, it's a lot of cricket, a lot of concentration and dedication.
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The ability to calibrate risk doesn't happen rationally.
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Bikes and planes aren't about going fast or having fun; they're toys, but serious ones.
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I had no ambition to go to America and be in a TV show. It's not like I've rejected something or decided that I've found something better. Your life just takes you off in strange and different directions.
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I was in a music class when I was little, and they discovered I had a talent and could sing. From there, I joined this singing troupe in California, and I would just go sing at festivals in this girl group and perform as much as I could.
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My family are my friends.
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Say there are three identical-looking pizza joints on a street. Two of those will always be empty. The third will have a line of people patiently waiting, checking their phones. There's always one place that's the place. That's how it works.
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Blemishes are hid by night and every fault forgiven; darkness makes any woman fair.
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TV news has largely given Trump editorial control.
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I do know some missed tackles usually that comes down to leverage, and I know those are correctable and fixable.
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I see these guys, they throw a guy into the ropes and they do a back flip and then clothesline the guy and it looks stupid. Why don't you just clothesline the guy?
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If I was sad or afraid, I would sit in a corner and sing. If I was happy I would jump into the middle of the room and sing. It was how I expressed my emotions.
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I suppose because I do and can work in the theatre, I don't see work as closing down as an older woman.
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Yoga is an inner experience - a workIN within a workOUT.
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Men move through a much different process before commitment than women do.
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Kids are soft these days, period, end of the story in every respect. People coddle them too much. I'm sick of that; it's irresponsible parenting. Taking care of them is one thing, but turning little boys into little girls because you're coddling them so much, kids need to have experiences on their own.
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Ay, in the catalogue ye go for men; As hounds, and greyhounds, mongrels, spaniels, curs, Shoughs, water-rugs, and demi-wolves, are 'clept All by the name of dogs: the valued file Distinguishes the swift, the slow, the subtle, The housekeeper, the hunter, every one According to the gift which bounteous nature Hath in him closed.
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If art does not enlarge men's sympathies, it does nothing morally.
