George Eliot Quotes
in certain crises direct expression of sympathy is the least possible to those who most feel sympathy.
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I've always performed. I've done plays at home.
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I play PC and Xbox games at home, and I just got a PSP as a birthday present.
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It's important for me to think I'm mixed-race.
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There is so much good music in the U.S. and there is just a small section that gets recognised at the Grammys.
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I'm no more or less antisocial than the next person.
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I went up for the first time when I was 18. It's a great place - I love L.A.; I mean, in Ireland it just rains all the time, it's crap weather, so it's nice to go to L.A. where it's just sunshine every day, and then it's kinda easier to live a kinda healthy lifestyle.
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What I've discovered and try to integrate into my show is when you're up there, and you are loud and more visible, you're setting a tone for how people can behave and how they can feel comfortable behaving.
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Whether you like the look or not, that tailcoat is a tough shell, a suit of armour. The posh boy is a hardy species.
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I want to become more famous, even more famous.
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Singing is my entire life. I nearly lost that. I am so blessed to be able to do this. It's the only thing I've ever wanted to do.
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I do not want to respond to leaks that concern things that have to do with state secrets of the first degree.
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All societies that have survived have survived based on their ability to prepare their sons to be disposable, in war and at work-and therefore as dads.
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All mankind, right down to those you most despise, are your neighbors.
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I had very little in common with and knew even less about a generation that I was supposed to be the voice of.
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As anyone who has the slightest knowledge of my work knows, I have little in common with Larkin, who was tall, taciturn and thin-on-top, and unlike him I laugh, nay, sneer, in the face of death. I will concede one point: we are both lesbian poets.
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'I throw my hand up in the air sometimes' is when you don't get your way - when you give up, and you're handing it over.
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I haven't made a movie for a while, but I've watched a lot. It's my major waste of time. I like to work, but also to be waiting for work.
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In truth, I have always been amazed by a group of people who all work toward putting one person's vision forward - that's an interesting story for me.
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There are no factions in the Liberal Party.
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Lucy swayed in shock. A gust of wind moaned through the conservatory and blew out all but one of her candles. Simon must have done this. He’d destroyed his fairyland conservatory. Why? She sank to her knees, huddled on the cold floor, her one remaining flame cradled in her numb palms. She’d seen how tenderly Simon had cared for his plants. Remembered the look of pride when she’d first discovered the dome and fountain. For him to have smashed all this . . . He must have lost hope. All hope.
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Genre-spanning is the effort to make the live show interesting. It's also a great way to challenge yourself as a writer.
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As an actor, you're always worried about getting stuck on a show that's not good because working actors need the paycheck. So being cast on a regular procedural, where everything gets wrapped up by the end of the episode, was always a fear of mine because that doesn't really test you as an actor.
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You can help me by advancing equality, supporting arts and education, and saving this goddamn planet.
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in certain crises direct expression of sympathy is the least possible to those who most feel sympathy.
