George Eliot Quotes
Quotes to Explore
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All institutions have lapses, even great ones, especially by individual rogue employees - famously in recent years at 'The Washington Post,' 'The New York Times,' and the three original TV networks.
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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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I love 'Trading Places,' but 'Coming to America' has one of the things I like to do - I like the multiple characters.
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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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You look rather rash my dear your colors don't quite match your face.
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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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Apparently, the city of Delhi is a 'character' in my novels. I'd argue that it's a ... city... in my novels.
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When I was in college there was a girls' flag football league. The girls were extremely aggressive.
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Whatever you are, you have the right to get married.
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If you give people nothingness, they can ponder what can be achieved from that nothingness.
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I don't mean to be presumptuous that men don't feel this, I don't mean this, but I found that when my child was born, my first child, it felt like my heart broke.
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Your neighbors will make judgments about you based on how your lawn and house look, and people who see you passing will judge you based on how clean you keep your car. It's not always fair, but it has always been true. Appearances matter, so make yours a good one.
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We want people to feel with us more than to act for us.
