George Eliot Quotes

Childhood has no forebodings; but then, it is soothed by no memories of outlived sorrow.

Quotes to Explore
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If I asked for a cup of coffee, someone would search for the double meaning.
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Save yourself some grief. Check with the publicist you hire to see what other books he/she has coming out at the same time as yours.
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We did a lot of high school productions. My first was 'Twelfth Night.' I played Viola. We did 'Much Ado About Nothing' and 'Taming of the Shrew,' and a lot of musicals: 'The Wiz,' 'Bye Bye Birdie,' 'Oliver.'
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Yoga is a life-saver.
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One thing any DJ needs in his crate, especially at a barbecue, is a selection of 15-minute-plus jams.
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I write novels and other things.
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I feel very, very lucky that George has got a little sister.
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I was four when I first stood at the helm on my own.
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If you really do want to be an actor who can satisfy himself and his audience, you need to be vulnerable. You must reach the emotional and intellectual level of ability where you can go out stark naked, emotionally, in front of an audience.
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I do secret stand-up shows around New York. I announce and tweet this to nobody - I get onstage and I do a quick five minutes.
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I may as well say it, I have been married three times.
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A child who does not play is not a child, but the man who doesn't play has lost forever the child who lived in him and who he will miss terribly.
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A tree grows. If you're staying the same, something is wrong. You're not alive.
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As the Cold War melts into history, our first concern should be the preservation and extension of human rights and democracy.
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I haven't seen much socially redeeming about religion. I'm an atheist. I don't here want to get into the Hitchens- or Dawkins-style attack on religion. I was raised on that. It's boring.
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I have lots of memories of my father. He was an incredible father. We all loved him to death.
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My mom was dying for me to write a book, she was my biggest advocate.
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In New York I pretty much live in diners - I order French Fries, Diet Coke floats and lots of coffee.
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My first reaction to Trump being elected was a visceral one. I cried for black people in general but, more particularly, for those of us at the margins who have been struggling and who have never received enough support.
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I always wanted 'Sideways' to be like a great 1960s Italian film.
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Speak not, move not, but listen, the sky is full of gold. No ripple on the river, no stir in field or fold, All gleams but naught doth glisten, but the far-off unseen sea. Forget days past, heart broken, put all memory by! No grief on the green hillside, no pity in the sky, Joy that may not be spoken fills mead and flower and tree.
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Bianca Nazario stands at the end of the world. The firmament above is as blue as the summer skies of her childhood, mirrored in the waters of la caldera; but where the skies she remembers were bounded by mountains, here on Sky there is no horizon, only a line of white cloud.
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I really believe that when you're playing a character that everything is contained in the script. If I'm pulling from things from my own life, then I think I'm being disingenuous to the character and the story.
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Childhood has no forebodings; but then, it is soothed by no memories of outlived sorrow.