George Eliot Quotes
It is always good to know, if only in passing, charming human beings. It refreshes one like flowers and woods and clear brooks.
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Hollywood is the only thing more ridiculous than Silicon Valley. There's nowhere else where it's stranger.
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I've been working on this feature script for Master Class, a play by Terrence McNally that won a lot of Tonys.
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I shall produce nothing that will offend the proprieties, whether applied to children or grownups. My pictures are turned out with clean hands and, therefore, with a clear conscience which, like virtue, is its own reward.
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Nobody was my support. You have to support yourself, and I think that is the beauty of being a woman. You can handle anything and be ten times better than men.
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I read a lot of poetry, and I love what it does with language. I love music, too, and I think there's probably no coincidence there, that the rhythm of the words is almost as important as the words themselves, and when you can get the two working together, which usually takes me about 20 goes, I feel a huge satisfaction.
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People deal with models like they are children. They think they can pull one over on you. It's actually funny. I'm always like, I'm about to pull something on you, and you're so focused on thinking I'm dumb, you're not even going to know.
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I don't believe in strong-arming people.
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My primary influences were the best jazz players from the 50's and 60's and later some of the pop people from the same time period along with the better of the well known blues musicians.
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I don't know, a lot of people go crazy about 'Breaking Bad,' but I don't like the soap opera aspect of it and only following one character. I like the context to all of it, all the pieces, like 'The Wire.' It's more about the state of things; it's not about the narrative of a person.
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My schedulers keep getting driven crazy by the fact that they can't fit hikes in my schedule.
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I'm rebelling against being handed a career, like, 'You're the next this; you're the next that.' I'm not the next anything, I'm the first me. I can't be myself, I can't just be Idris Elba. But that's just the nature of the business.
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I love yoga and hiking - I think that's the perfect combo.
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Growing up, I had a terrible pudding-bowl haircut. I used to cut it myself, and I'd sew my own clothing, too. I looked a little strange compared to the other kids. But the thing was, I felt I looked amazing, so what other people thought never bothered me.
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By now it is evident that the Soviet Union must gain control of Europe to maintain its empire.
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Sadly, in the name of progress, we have polluted the air, water, soil and the food we eat.
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I turned Compaq from a small company with troubles into a computer powerhouse. We can do the same at Intershop.
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The importance of the arts to the societies in which they thrive is well documented.
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I love punching the ceiling with my fists when I'm lost or I can't find a parking space.
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If I went to somewhere busy, I wouldn't last very long. I can't go to a museum - I'll last 10 or 15 minutes in a museum. The problem is that when one person asks for a photograph, then someone sees a flash goes off, then everyone else sort of... it's sort of like a domino effect.
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We're going to hear a lot of spirited discussion about the President's plan in the next few days and weeks and that's fine as long as everyone comes ready to talk and not just snipe, complain and argue.
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I studied neuroscience at the cellular level, so I was looking at learning and memory in the visual cortex of rats. Neuroscience mainly exposed me to a way of thinking - about experimentation, about what you believe to be true and how you could prove it - and how to approach things in a methodical manner.
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I want my performance to be at the highest level of anybody in the company. I want to make everybody step up to me.
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I don't have friends, I have thousands of acquaintances. No friends. I figured I had a wife and children.
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It is always good to know, if only in passing, charming human beings. It refreshes one like flowers and woods and clear brooks.
