George Eliot Quotes
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I would like to be remembered as someone who did the best she could with the talent she had.
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I didn't want to be a number. I didn't want to be an object.
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It is true that when there's a drone attack, those - that the - the terrorists are killed, it's true. But 500 and 5,000 more people rises against it, and more terrorism occurs, and more - more bomb blasts occurs.
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Still, records are documents of a period of time. Most records are documents of two or three years, and I just approached it as a record I was doing over a 20-year period of time.
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For me, it's hard to keep up with trends. I just go for the roles and movies that I feel I could add value to, or contribute to, that I feel I could portray.
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When we cover a Chainsmokers song in our live show with ZBB, people are dancing and going crazy.
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Of course, in the United States, which at the time was a very young country, there were also class distinctions. They weren't as pronounced, but they quickly evolved as well.
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I'm very pro-American - my entire family escaped poverty in Italy because they rightly believed in the American dream.
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The power structures in fashion used to be limited to western Europe and the States. That's changing.
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If Queen Elizabeth knighthooded me and I would get the title Sir Usain Bolt. That sounds very nice.
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My doctors warned me repeatedly that if you don't stay positive, you don't do well.
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You see, nature will do exactly what it must, and if we are a hindrance to its development, to even its destructive powers to reform itself and we are in a way, we will go.
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When it comes to peaking at the right time, I have to thank my coach Mike Holmes: he is a genius.
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Dishonesty in a woman is a thing you never blame deeply - I was casually sorry, and then I forgot.
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The world is shrinking together; it is finding itself neighbor to itself in strange, almost magic degree.
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I have never had to look up a definition of honor. I knew instinctively what it was. It is something I had the day I was born, and I never had to question where it came from or by what right it was mine. If I was stripped of my honor, I would choose death as certainly and unemotionally as I clean my shoes in the morning. Honor is the presence of God in man.
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‘…Women I do not much care for myself - I prefer little Greek shepherd-boys…’
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If you read a lot of books, you're considered well-read. But if you watch a lot of TV, you're not considered well-viewed.
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'Son of Frankenstein' is never talked about in the same tone as James Whale's 1931 'Frankenstein.' But it should be. It was Boris Karloff's last appearance in the Frankenstein series and stars Donnie Dunagan, then a child actor.
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We are very near the end, but have not and will not lose our good cheer.
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Reverie is the groundwork of creative imagination; it is the privilege of the artist that with him it is not as with other men an escape from reality, but the means by which he accedes to it.
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When the writing is going really well, whole days and weeks go by, and I suddenly realise I have all these unpaid bills and, my God, I haven't unpacked, and the suitcase has been sitting there for three weeks.
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As they who make Good luck a god count all unlucky men.
