George Eliot Quotes
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Hip-hop is an instant gratification, winners and losers circle, and often those who are losing give up after three or four, five years.
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As a legal matter, my mother is an American citizen by birth.
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When my friends have a health concern, they call me. I've always been a vitamin taker. I also take digestive enzymes and antioxidants, and supplements that help with the thyroid and adrenals for my time-zone changes.
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Before I had a record deal, I was living in New York and playing anywhere I could, from somebody's house to an open mic to coffeeshops.
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I think a lot more people are starting to understand the power of YouTube.
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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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When I think of Emily Dickinson, there's not one particular poem of hers that jumps out, but I do have a very vivid image of an ill woman with giant eyes who wants to write about the sun exploding.
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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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Change will come slowly, across generations, because old beliefs die hard even when demonstrably false.
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Smaller groups of people can establish trusting relationships.
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I have the best husband a wife could possibly have. He's the best father my children could have.
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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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The role of an actor is to make every character believable.
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'Luke Cage' is about a reluctant superhero who lives in the shadows in Harlem. He has to decide if he's going to step up and fight for the heart of the city and defend the people against Cornell 'Cottonmouth' Stokes, my character, who kinda wants to keep everything in order and intact. I'm the criminal element in the story.
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I have so many friends who hate their jobs and man, it's such a struggle trying to find what they love or what they dream of. I feel so lucky that I found what I love and my dreams have started to come true.
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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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It requires a very unusual mind to undertake the analysis of the obvious.
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What society doesn't realize is that in the past, ordinary people respected learning. They respected books, and they don't now, or not very much. That whole respect for serious literature and learning has disappeared.
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To reach a mass audience, you have to offer more than just hostility.
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Why do you need to do a fancy cartwheel for before you hit him? It just looks stupid.
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I figured out that I can't forget. I can't really forgive. But I can live. Live with it. Like you live with a scar or a limp or whatever. You always know it's there. It reminds you never to let yourself do anything so stupid and horrible and wrong again. I step out of my rut, step again, and keep stepping.
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Blows are sarcasms turned stupid.
