George Eliot Quotes
Quotes to Explore
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Women are blessed with energy - a power which is unique. I have been very fortunate to have played strong women and explored their strengths through my films.
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When the 'New York Times' revealed the warrantless surveillance of voice calls, in December 2005, the telephone companies got nervous.
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In writing, as in medicine, there are no short cuts. You need stamina.
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One of the recent love stories I enjoyed was Bhaskar's 'Bommarillu.'
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I listen to music almost any time I'm not sleeping, 'hanging out' with specific people, or showering.
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I've fallen in love in my life a few times. It's the most exciting part of being alive - that I've experienced, anyway.
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I defy any woman that doesn't feel more elegant and more groomed and ready for an evening than if you have a blow dry.
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I started coming up to New York at age 17. There was a girl I met over the summer somewhere; I was chasing her. I would drive up to D.C., where I had made some friends, which was about four hours away, and we would take the bus up to New York.
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A wise human would have an understanding of the supply chain and how the pieces fit together. But it's against our nature to think about it.
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I was ready to get out of the box and play something a little different than what everybody has seen.
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I don't think that genius goes hand in hand with being socially inept or being a sociopath or being a misanthrope, but I do think that it is a mind that can think so differently - so beyond how one is supposed to think.
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When you make your living as a singer, you have to go where the gigs are.
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Something that I think I figured out slowly was if you're playing a show and there's a chatter or there is, you know, a lot of noise - people talking or something - I was never the one whose instinct was to try to be louder than them.
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There are so few roles out there. And even if it is a film that could be led by a black actress, how many times is that film going to get funded? Let's just be real. But it's not just black people. It's Asians, it's Hispanic people if you're not Salma Hayek. It's hard. It's hard to get films funded.
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I don't think God cares what you put in your body or on your body.
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Everything bad that has ever happened to me has been caused by agents or lawyers.
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When I did 'Unforgettable,' it wasn't appropriate for us to take liberties with that music. There had to be kind of a fine line between what had made it so great and the fact that a woman was singing it. We changed some of the arrangements, but not too much.
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Principles and rules are intended to provide a thinking man with a frame of reference.
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Democracy has to be judged not just by the institutions that formally exist but by the extent to which different voices from diverse sections of the people can actually be heard.
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I've played every beer joint tavern from New York City out to PasadenaEvery corn dog fair and rodeoAnd sold out every basketball arenaI like to get down with my boys in Afghanistan and Baghdad city tooI am a red, white and blue blood graduate of Honkytonk U.
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Nobody should expect an actor to have these wonderful ideas and concepts about the world: they pretend to be other people for a living.
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One thing I hate is people screaming at me. If you want me to do something, talk to me.
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I'm still so young, so I feel like people have wanted to keep me in a 'no-makeup' fresh type of look - sometimes artists are a little afraid of really putting the makeup on me.
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We want people to feel with us more than to act for us.
