George Eliot Quotes
‘Why, what can a man do when he takes to adoring one of you mermaids? He only neglects his work and runs up bills.’
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I liberate minds with my music. That's more important than liberating a few people from apartheid or whatever.
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It was my mother's idea. Her feeling was that I didn't have the intelligence to pick a trade myself.
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I'm not the type of person that is forced.
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I watch 'Entourage.' I aspire the good life that they live and lead. Honestly, I am just trying to be me by trying to do good films, have fun at it and trying to work with good directors, and, of course, I am a bit of a silent party boy, also. I have my share of fun sometime, too.
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You can't just keep recycling revivals. And you can't keep betting on the efforts of guys like me who've been around. You have to take the next step and bet on the next generation.
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For the record, I have long suspected that my favorite book is actually 'Charlotte's Web.'
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Many of us will be obsessed with one or another kind of secret or revelation, be it gossip about friends or ourselves, a fantasy about spies, or a worry about the most personal information now stored in data banks. But few of us think about secrets in general, or about the moral rights and wrongs of hiding or exposing them.
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Embrace the grease, if any, and look fresh and human. I like to look like a glazed doughnut.
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A jackass can kick a barn down, but it takes a carpenter to build one.
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I don't want to go slumming in somebody else's pain just to write a book. I want to go into those darker places to shine a light on that experience and come out with a story that validates the human spirit.
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I kind of stumbled into comics in a roundabout way. One of the first films my father introduced me to was the 1989 'Batman,' the Tim Burton one.
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It is unfair to label me anti-Islam. I am an atheist and a secular humanist.
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I just love writing. It's magical, it's somewhere else to go, it's somewhere much more dreadful, somewhere much more exciting. Somewhere I feel I belong, possibly more than in the so-called real world.
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You want all your books to stick around after you've gone.
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Before Juilliard, I was a schoolteacher for a little bit. I taught in a charter school. I was a substitute teacher for kids ages 3 to 6.
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Christians take Scriptures out of context to try to justify or to vindicate retreat and cowardice.
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I think it's an extremely important factor to have your team together. It goes back to having distractions. When you all stay together for a period of time you're not training people or feeling out different personalities.
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Our enemy is not Islam. Islam is not the enemy of America; Americans are not the enemy of Islam. Our real enemy is extremism and radicalism.
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Public schools were designed as the great equalizers of our society - the place where all children could have access to educational opportunities to make something of themselves in adulthood.
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I don't know if my work is a concerted effort to make kids sad!
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Progress is possible. I know because I've seen it in the lives of people across America who get knocked down and get right back up. And I know it from my own life.
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I read everything, but particularly, growing up in a household where my mom was black and my dad was white, I remember really loving 'Ebony' and 'Essence.' Those magazines were the only place where I could see images of women who looked like me or my mom.
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An amateur can be great in front of the camera, but you need an education to get on stage where you have full control as an actor.
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‘Why, what can a man do when he takes to adoring one of you mermaids? He only neglects his work and runs up bills.’
