George Eliot Quotes
'Character," says Novalis, in one of his questionable aphorisms - character is destiny'.
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There's nothing wrong with a thick eyebrow; Frida Kahlo had them.
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By the usual reckoning, the worst books make the best films.
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You gotta understand, you can't look at no pictures and look at the media and the critics and what they saying on no Internet.
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It is nasty. You can think that you know someone in this business and you really don't. You can be stabbed in the back very easily. You can be praised very easily. It doesn't matter who you are or what you do.
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Corruption is in society and in every strata of society.
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Nature builds things that are antifragile. In the case of evolution, nature uses disorder to grow stronger. Occasional starvation or going to the gym also makes you stronger, because you subject your body to stressors and gain from them.
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The one thing you can ask, I think, is that actors get paid a living wage. I would like it if all the repertory theatres that currently exist could do that. It would make a huge difference.
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I was inspired to spend an entire year - my 65th year - reading, researching, and meditating on Lao-tzu's messages, practicing them and ultimately writing down these insights as I felt Lao-tzu wanted us to know them.
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I never look at how many songs I have or how many girls are there in a movie. If I like my character, I play it.
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None of us, remember, knew that 9/11 was gonna happen. We didn't live in a state of anxiety and fear about Osama Bin Laden. The CIA might have, and they failed to prevent it. But the general public didn't have any knowledge. Now we have knowledge of it, and it's a very clear and present danger in our lives.
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I hate being called a pop star. I hate that.
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You can be very famous without being a great actress, and that's not good for me.
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At the moment I am a little bit politician, yes. I think that could be my next step. It is not because I want power, it is because of what I think I could do for the people.
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I never participated in far-reaching political decisions, since I never belonged to the circle of the closest associates of Adolf Hitler, neither was I consulted by Adolf Hitler on general political questions, nor did I ever take part in conferences about such problems.
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When in doubt, do it.
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I do things because I enjoy it. That used to be my downfall, but now it's the upside.
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Globalization is a fact of economic life.
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I think of myself as an entertainment arsenal. Like I have my acting bazooka and my music machete. And you don't know what I'm going to come at you with.
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There are ministers who never speak of repentance or self-denial. Naturally they are popular, but they are false prophets.
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He who hates vice hates men.
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Sometimes I feel the only way I can get a major publisher interested in mental illness is if I find a character who has bipolar disorder and is also a love-sick vampire attending an English school called Hogwarts. But I'm not giving up.
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'I always play with everybody,' said Honoré. 'It is my vocation. God put me on the earth to do with people what cats do to mice. Play with them, chew the last bit of life out of them, them pick them up in my mouth and drop them on people’s doorsteps. That is the business of literature.'
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'Character," says Novalis, in one of his questionable aphorisms - character is destiny'.
