George Eliot Quotes
Quotes to Explore
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The measure of a man is not how great his faith is, but how great his love is. We must not let government programs disconnect our souls from each other.
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I think with 'Skinwalkers,' the success of it spoke for itself. Meaning a lot of people wanted to see something new on television.
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Sometimes his methods are questionable, and even his morals are questionable, but his intention is always to protect Sydney. So in that way I think he's a good parent.
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Youth is really in your attitude, not in what you look like.
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Life is a wildly transient thing with people coming into your life and dropping away. It definitely takes work to maintain relationships.
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I think I'm a people person. I get very attached to people. And I've become so attached to all the people on my show, the cast, the crew and the producers.
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Growing up, I was not told that there were women's areas of preoccupation or male ones.
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We are two abysses - a well staring at the sky.
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I have been in this business for over 30 years. I've seen a lot of development programmes. They don't all run smoothly.
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As a writer, you have to believe you're one of the best writers in the world. To sit down every day at the typewriter filled with self-doubt is not a good idea.
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'Cosmos' wouldn't deserve its place in primetime evening network television were it not a landscape on which compelling stories were told. People, when they watch TV in the evening, want to see stories, and science simply tells the best stories.
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The only shibboleth the West has is science. It is the premise of modernity and it defines itself as a rationality capable of, indeed requiring separation from politics, religion and really, society. Modernisation is to work towards this.
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I always kind of think if The Beatles were still around now, people would've lost interest quite a long time ago. Seven years of recording - it's there forever. I think not outstaying your welcome is a vital ingredient.
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I practice a personal meditation and have a gala apple before each show.
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I'm extremely ambitious. I don't know why people are afraid to say that. I won't sell my soul to the devil, but I do want success and I don't think that's bad.
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I like a girl with a good personality that I can have fun with. If I am taking you out on a date, let's eat burgers and cheese fries.
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The biggest regret I have about 'Rubicon' is that we didn't end it. Sometimes you do these shows and you don't have the opportunity to get closure. Stories are supposed to have a beginning, middle and an end.
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There seems to be a pattern. I get one good script every two years.
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We expect teachers to handle teenage pregnancy, substance abuse, and the failings of the family. Then we expect them to educate our children.
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When you see what you express through photography, you realize all the things that can no longer be the objectives of painting. Why should an artist persist in treating subjects that can be established so clearly with the lens of a camera?
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New York, forever the port of em- and de-barkation en route to Adventure.
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I write because it's my way of finding cool ideas, thinking through hard problems and things I don't understand, and getting better at something.
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I think we shape God in our own image a lot of the time.
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To my thinking, it is more pitiable to bore than to be bored.
