George Eliot Quotes
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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.
Vidya Balan -
When the 'New York Times' revealed the warrantless surveillance of voice calls, in December 2005, the telephone companies got nervous.
Barton Gellman -
In writing, as in medicine, there are no short cuts. You need stamina.
Abraham Verghese -
One of the recent love stories I enjoyed was Bhaskar's 'Bommarillu.'
Ram Charan -
I listen to music almost any time I'm not sleeping, 'hanging out' with specific people, or showering.
Tao Lin -
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.
Patrick deWitt
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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.
Tamsin Egerton -
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.
Garth Risk Hallberg -
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.
Paolo Bacigalupi -
I was ready to get out of the box and play something a little different than what everybody has seen.
Ice Cube -
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.
Hanya Yanagihara -
When you make your living as a singer, you have to go where the gigs are.
Natalie Cole
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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.
Feist -
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.
Octavia Spencer -
I don't think God cares what you put in your body or on your body.
Tammy Faye Bakker -
Everything bad that has ever happened to me has been caused by agents or lawyers.
Orson Welles -
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.
Natalie Cole -
Principles and rules are intended to provide a thinking man with a frame of reference.
Carl von Clausewitz
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We live in a time where we're made to feel guilty about overeating, oversleeping, and not exercising. Garfield not only does all that, but he doesn't apologize for it.
Jim Davis -
If at first you don't succeed, try, try again. Then quit. There's no point in being a damn fool about it.
W. C. Fields -
I don't think the scientific method and the science fictional method are really analogous. The thing about them is that neither is really practiced very much, at least not consciously. But the fact that they are methodical does relate them.
Frederik Pohl -
Most people live uncomplicated lives. They have work and quietly rear their children. There is an order and sanity about them that keeps the world going. There is an outer disorder and insanity about my life which makes me a victim. One of the disorders is that they won't give us citizenship here.
Bessie Head -
Facebook and Twitter have changed how people follow ski racing. In past Olympics, you couldn't stay in touch with the fan base that followed you during the Olympics. They thought they had to wait four years to reconnect.
Lindsey Vonn -
We want people to feel with us more than to act for us.
George Eliot