George Eliot Quotes
Quotes to Explore
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I'm trying to have some longevity in this business. If that means not working for a while and just picking the right job, so be it.
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Books are humanity in print.
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A lot of people can be cheerleaders for songs and go, 'Oh, that's great,' and they don't think it.
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I love to read, and TV seemed more like a good book, with these incredible series unfolding like chapters in a novel.
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I got beat real hard and heavy in the Olympic Games in 1968 by a guy who swam an incredible race one time in his whole life, but he did it right at the right time. I'd like to be that guy now. Maybe that's what I'm going to have to pull out of my hat to make the Olympic team.
Mark Spitz -
Look at the computer industry. I've watched a lot of companies come and go, some that were right at the pinnacle of their success.
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I love doing television.
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Aha! The Alien Planet Canada series, where the planet the characters are marooned on seems to be Manitoba. Bad bad world building.
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The novel is not so much a literary genre, but a literary space, like a sea that is filled by many rivers.
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If I had ever learnt, I should have been a great proficient.
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What happens is people go, 'I want to play the guitar,' and the first thing they do is hit Google: 'How can I play this?' and the next thing you know, you've learned all these tricks, but you've never learned how to play rhythm guitar with a groove.
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That man's the best cosmopolite Who loves his native country best.
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There's a high level of frustration with the two-party system out there.
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Don't look at all at what other people are doing. Think of what you're doing as completely fresh because if you imitate you're dead.
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Uncle Richard went to the café where he had been going for twenty years. It now had a Jewish side and an Aryan side, and he sat on the Jewish side. Because he had fair hair and didn’t look Jewish, a waiter, who did not know him, said he had to move to the Aryan side. But on the Aryan side, a waiter who did know him said that he had to go back to the Jewish side. He finally gave up and went home.
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Though finally overwhelmed by a preening lassitude, 'Hotel' is never less than fascinating, breaking into multiscreen scenarios like Mr. Figgis's 2000 experiment, 'Timecode.'
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But sometimes imperfect tools lead us toward perfect ends.
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When you see fair hair Be pitiful.
