George Eliot Quotes
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I'm very content.
V. S. Naipaul -
I was never the pretty girl at school. I'm tiny and mixed-race. I grew up in a white area. I was always the loner.
FKA twigs -
I think my films kind of walk this line that I'm proud of, that they feel sort of like films of my youth, which were far more commercial.
J. C. Chandor -
Writing for children, you do bear a responsibility to not include overt or graphic adult content that they are not ready for and don't need, or to address adult concepts or themes from an oblique angle or a child's limited viewpoint, with appropriate context, without being graphic or distressing.
Garth Nix -
An artist is born like a priest is born. If they are born an artist, I would tell them art is not a game: it is something very serious which completely requires everything you have to give.
Fernando Botero -
I think the hardest thing about making music now is being a great dad at the same time. There's an insanity that goes with writing - a mad scientist thing that you have to go through - and sacrificing a kid's upbringing to do that is not an option.
Eddie Vedder Pearl Jam
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I've always been an actor, a lowly actor without power, so I've never been corrupted. I've never even directed.
Laura Fraser -
I don't start with a list of historical scenes that I want to include in the book. At a certain point, the narrative totally takes over, and everything that I include I can only incorporate if it answers to the internal terms of the novel.
Rachel Kushner -
No one out there is interested in who did what to whom in Westminster politics.
Iain Duncan Smith -
I don't really like politics, to be honest. But it's other people making decisions about my life and my country and my child's education... I wish we didn't have so much money in politics, but that's not the world we live in. If we don't play here, we forfeit. And I'm not willing to forfeit my rights.
Laura Ricketts -
Progress might have been alright once, but it has gone on too long.
Ogden Nash -
If you fire people, you fire customers.
Ferdinand Piech
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I guess the reality is, everybody today has so many gadgets.
Barbara Broccoli -
True virtue is life under the direction of reason.
Baruch Spinoza -
Kids are very cruel to each other.
Natalie Dormer -
A minister has to be able to read a clock. At noon, it's time to go home and turn up the pot roast and get the peas out of the freezer.
Garrison Keillor -
I had never seen 'Vogue.' I didn't read fashion magazines, I read 'Time' and 'Newsweek.'
Iman -
There isn't a class structure in Nigeria; there's a tribal structure and prestige as far as money is concerned.
Sade Adu
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It's always more comforting to know that in any given corner of any room or any location you're on, you can make a photograph that you'll appreciate.
Herb Ritts -
To read too many books is harmful.
Mao Zedong -
Marriage is a social construct, but I still believe in it.
Talulah Riley -
I can't ever remember sitting around and saying, 'gosh let's hurry up and get these debates going, that'll win it for me.' Nope.
George H. W. Bush -
I've got my head fixed on the next part of life. I know there will be an adjusting period of just not being a rugby player for a while, and over that period I'll get my head around what the next challenge involves.
Brian O'Driscoll -
Wise books For half the truths they hold are honored tombs.
George Eliot