George Eliot Quotes
when a man had deserved his good luck, it was the part of his neighbours to wish him joy.
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I consider music to be storytelling, melody and rhythm. A lot of hip-hop has broken music down. There are no instruments and no songwriting. So you're left with just storytelling and rhythm. And the storytelling can be so braggadocious, you're just left with rhythm.
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I try to talk about policy issues intelligently, I try very hard to avoid thought bubbles. I make sure my speeches are well researched and footnoted. I make sure I am not talking through my hat.
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Like baseball, food will never go out of style; we will always need to eat and we will always find it entertaining. I think of food TV this way - all the fun and none of the calories.
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Home to me is the world because my books have been translated into more than 30 languages.
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There are many reasons I feel at home in the U.K., but if I were asked to pinpoint the moment I knew I'd arrived, it might well be when I realised the British shared my love of fritters.
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I'm not going to lie; the most fun of writing these books is just saying, 'Where am I going to write about? Let me go there!'
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If you're not kind, then you won't be attractive to me personally because that spirit shines through and makes people attractive.
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I don't think we should do anything that should make the people hate the American people more.
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I remember being a teenager and seeing Seymour Cassel across a crowded room and being incredibly star struck, and not having the courage to say, 'Hello.'
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I've been designing since I was 8. I started sketching dresses I could wear when skating. I was always involved in all aspects of skating, not just the technique, the choreography, the music, but the visual aspects, too - what I should wear.
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My whole thing is being sexy without showing too much, because that's my comfort level.
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The actors that I admire are able to step into so many different roles.
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You have friends, and they die. You have a disease, someone you care about has a disease, Wall Street people are scamming everyone, the poor get poorer, the rich get richer. That's what we're surrounded by all the time.
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You walk on a set, and you have no idea - that's why I don't storyboard. It's all possible.
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My style has been pretty much like a newspaper. It's got politics in it, it's got media, sports, family relations, you know, all the sections you would expect, and wonderful religion things.
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I still don't know what Episcopalian means.
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Sometimes I think that there's a fine line between impressionistic and messy.
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When I started studying tenor saxophone as a kid in Belfast, I did so with a guy named George Cassidy, who was also a big inspiration.
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The three great moments of my life had to be the concerts of Ellington in 1938, Dizzy in '48, and Ella in '52.
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People who insist on telling their dreams are among the terrors of the breakfast table.
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If you want to achieve a high goal, you're going to have to take some chances.
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Our strategy should be not only to confront empire, but to lay siege to it. To deprive it of oxygen. To shame it. To mock it. With our art, our music, our literature, our stubbornness, our joy, our brilliance, our sheer relentlessness – and our ability to tell our own stories. Stories that are different from the ones we’re being brainwashed to believe.
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The trick is, when you try a good pair of jeans on, you may not think they're that great, but you wear them two months, and they become your favorite jeans. They're tricky. You gotta let them live.
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when a man had deserved his good luck, it was the part of his neighbours to wish him joy.
