George Eliot Quotes
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As a legal matter, my mother is an American citizen by birth.
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Music is not a work for me - it's a form of meditation, and you don't need to work hard for it.
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So never lose an opportunity of urging a practical beginning, however small, for it is wonderful how often in such matters the mustard-seed germinates and roots itself.
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I definitely got to a point where I realize how unusual it is to be able to play large, sold-out shows 30 years into a rock and roll career. I don't take it for granted.
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Limitations can be hugely creative and hugely inspiring - so long as they are the ones you choose for yourself. I will not allow anyone to take anything off my palette, but if I do, then within that, I can be creative.
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You learn to read the audiences after a while, and there are all different kinds of gigs.
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Us comics guys tend to get really good at the things we draw a lot. I'm good at creepy old forests, Victorian houses, underground goblin cities, and beautiful but creepy fairies.
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I stuck out more in an English public school than I would have had I marched in a May Day parade with the Red Army in Moscow or sashayed the Yves St. Laurent catwalk with supermodels or hunted seals with the Inuit or - well, you get the idea.
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I think the most un-American thing you can say is, 'You can't say that.'
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I have a terrible tendency to lick my fingers when I cook. So much so that I got a telling off from my pastry teacher years ago, who said it would hinder my prospects.
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There's no wrong way to experience a film.
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To me, writing an ongoing series feels like driving a freight train downhill. All you can do is steer and pray.
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I got all my politics and culture and my sense of the great wide world of adults from 'Mad Magazine.' But all other comic books literally gave me a headache.
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In my early professional years I was asking the question: How can I treat, or cure, or change this person? Now I would phrase the question in this way: How can I provide a relationship which this person may use for his own personal growth?
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So I have four daughters, about ten granddaughters, and five grandsons.
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In the '50s, critics used to say I had a 'dangerous' act.
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No, we have not destroyed it. Let it sit. We cannot change its fate.
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It takes brains to make money, but any dam fool can inherit. P.S.: I never inherited any money.
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Facts are, directors are not thinking of me; they think I only act in my films, because they're stupid. Or they think I'm a control freak, that I will try to, I don't know, pimp their scripts and just change everything, which I will never do.
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People don't understand that when I'm on the show I'm totally relaxed, hanging out, having a fun time, watching videos, and being goofy. Sometimes I say stupid comments, just being funny, and people think I'm a dumb person.
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There is a large element of me in every role I do.
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I'm pursuing film and TV, and it's exciting because I feel I can write in almost any genre now.
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The arts are the best insurance policy a city can take on itself.
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... one always believes one's own town to be more stupid than any other.
