George Eliot Quotes
Do we not all agree to call rapid thought and noble impulse by the name of inspiration?
Quotes to Explore
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Star Wars was magnificent, but you could tell Darth Vader's ships were glued together.
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'Heroes' really changed the game for me in a way that nothing before it had.
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If I wasn't going to be a surgeon, I wanted to be a farmer or grow oranges or something like that. I grow flowers now - orchids. That is something that I find very interesting.
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It's time for some common sense from federal agencies.
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If your mom is still around, you're so lucky.
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All my life I had feared to-morrow, until I decided to have faith and to live to-day in courage.
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I'm lucky to be getting a lot of good work in Tollywood. And I won't say I'm choosy, but of course, you have to select the best, and I'm trying to grab as many good films as I can. There was a time when I had to let go of some films which I regret now.
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Sometimes when you're writing a song and that song comes into your head, it definitely comes from somewhere, like a real experience.
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In the end, you have to write like you're not afraid of the critics.
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I never wrote just straight women's roles. I liked the strong characters. I don't mean women who have masculine qualities about them, but something that has some intestinal fortitude, some guts to it.
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When you're in prison, and we're left to our own devices, you're stripped of everything, and you really get to see who these people are, the good and the bad.
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'Extraordinary' is an original fairy tale, a contemporary story. But like a traditional fairy tale, it heads quickly into frightening, bloody territory. I am afraid for my book, as it goes out alone into the world, just as I was frightened for Phoebe as I wrote and rewrote her story.
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When you're starting up a show, you don't really know what direction it's going to go.
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Hold a picture of yourself long and steadily enough in your mind's eye, and you will be drawn toward it.
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In no case can I permit myself to be a candidate of any party or yield myself to any party schemes.
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Just keep challenging yourself. I think that's a great thing.
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Some friends are better shots than are casual enemies.
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It was around the summer of 1982 when the drug problem really impacted. It became a lifestyle rather than a recreation. When you start lying and stealing, you cannot con yourself you're in control any more.
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In real life, coincidences happen all the time. In novels, they are leapt upon with fury.
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Wisdom sits with children round her knees.
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An idea is a point of departure and no more. As soon as you elaborate it, it becomes transformed by thought.
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But I think we need to remember that democracy everywhere is by its nature incomplete, a work in progress.
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Do we not all agree to call rapid thought and noble impulse by the name of inspiration?
