George Eliot Quotes
To fear the examination of any proposition apears to me an intellectual and a moral palsy that will ever hinder the firm grasping of any substance whatever.
Quotes to Explore
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My mum wouldn't have had any time for fantasy stuff; she's more practical.
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Every writer I know got their start in a library somewhere. We read a book, and we thought, 'I want to do that.'
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I think depression creates in me an urgent need to write, but I also believe that daily stress, and even the positive 'stress' of intense happiness, can compel me to express myself through the written word.
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I didn't have a long-term plan or goal. If there would have been a road map showing me the way to my dreams becoming reality, I might have given it a second thought.
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I don't listen to the radio too much, but usually I listen to Stanley Brothers and Ralph Stanley more than I do anybody!
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Cinema gives you the opportunity to be both a grandparent and a grandchild whereas in life you cannot be both at the same time.
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With a warm drink, in a rocking chair and family and friends around, I am working on finding peace and joy in the moments we have been given. It doesn't have to all make sense. I don't have all the answers.
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I don't think we should do anything that should make the people hate the American people more.
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People on television have trouble with fame because audiences think they're their mates.
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If people don't like me for whatever I do, for being me, then that's too bad. I don't want to change to be something that I'm not for other people to like me.
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In dwelling, live close to the ground. In thinking, keep to the simple. In conflict, be fair and generous. In governing, don't try to control. In work, do what you enjoy. In family life, be completely present.
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I'm doing what I do for the right reasons. I love the music that I make.
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I've made the decision not to do radio anymore.
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My mom and my dad were married 56 years, and the fact that I reconciled with my dad I think made their marriage a little bit better as well.
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I pretty much preach, teach and nag.
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My father used to sing to me in my mother's womb. I think I can name about any tune in two beats.
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We asked our friends and relations to lend us their children, and, because we lived in London, children loved to come and stay for their half-term holidays.
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I would love to go to film school.
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I'd just love to see a great love story, and nobody makes them anymore. You have great actresses like Cate Blanchett - she's fabulous in Pushing Tin and Elizabeth - and you don't use them.
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I think sometimes when you have 24 episodes, you almost have to stretch things out too much.
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An amateur can be great in front of the camera, but you need an education to get on stage where you have full control as an actor.
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The easy way to make money is to get special political privilege. From the beginning of time, business has cozied up to government and gotten restrictions on competition and subsidies and stuff.
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Moral #1: "If you work hard, stay focused, and never give up, you will eventually get what you want in life." Moral #2: Sometimes the things we want most in life are the things that will kill us.
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To fear the examination of any proposition apears to me an intellectual and a moral palsy that will ever hinder the firm grasping of any substance whatever.
