George Eliot Quotes
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I know that I was put on this planet to be an athlete.
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My diet is mostly chicken and fish. I make sure I get a lot of vegetables, a lot of fruit. I am a big fruit man, I am a vegetable man anyway. And I also get a lot of rest. That's the key I may be up early, but I'm in bed early too.
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There are some forms of religion that are bad, just as there's bad cooking or bad art or bad sex, you have bad religion too.
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I completely get the drag thing.
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I don't consider myself a celebrity. That would be kind of sad.
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In the Great Depression, you bought something if you had the cash to buy it.
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I had to quit ballet because it felt like a part of me was dying inside.
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Lead us not into temptation. Just tell us where it is; we'll find it.
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Nobody likes a child to die or losing an election.
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Twenty percent of students in Israel's schools are haredim; another 20% are retired; another 20% are Arab. I have no problem with any of them.
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I left Beijing in 1987, shortly before my books were banned there, but have returned continually.
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I enjoy my life.
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If you've got a plot the size of a car or a tiny yard in Italy, you're going to be growing tomatoes and basil and celery and carrots, and everybody is still connected to the land.
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I'm not on the radio all day long. I'm not on TV.
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I am doing characters that have so many layers. And I am very lucky that I show a lot of variety.
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Both villains and heroes need to have a steadfast belief in themselves.
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Writers who have nothing to say always strain for metaphors to say it in.
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The trick to being a novelist is to act like an iceberg. Make it seem as if you're displaying only one-tenth of what you know, and the other nine-tenths isn't visible and never mind if that part is pure styrofoam!
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The cat, it is well to remember, remains the friend of man because it pleases him to do so and not because he must.
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The simplest questions are the most difficult.
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Whenever I see that ball coming my way I am just hungry to get it. When I get the chance to take it I try to score as much as I can.
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Think about 'GoodFellas': It could be a textbook on how not to write a screenplay. It leans on voice-over at the beginning, then abandons it for a while, then the character just talks right into the camera at the end. That structure is so unusual that you don't have any sense of what's going to happen next.
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Your heavenly home was bought for a price, and that payment results in a title deed that can never be lost through foreclosure.
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It's a father's duty to give his sons a fine chance.
