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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I remember my mother taking me as a very little kid to the roof of our home in Phnom Penh, Cambodia, to look at the bombs exploding in the distance. She didn't want us to be scared by the booms and the strange flashes of light. It was her way of helping us to understand what was happening.
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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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Some people need sequins, others don't.
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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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After World War I the resentment of the working class against all that it had to suffer was directed more against Morgan, Wall Street and private capital than the government.
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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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My mom always told me, 'You're very smart; you're very funny.' She never told me, 'You're very beautiful.'
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I'm just not one of those people who thought having biological children was that important, to me it was more about wanting to raise a child.
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Traveling and other cultures provide me with great inspiration, especially unusual people and cultures totally unlike my own. They generate many new ideas for me.
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I strongly believe that fundamental science cannot be driven by instructional, industrial, governmental or military pressures. This was the reason why I decided, as far as possible, not to accept money from the government.
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Do we not all agree to call rapid thought and noble impulse by the name of inspiration?
