George Eliot Quotes
Women should be protected from anyone's exercise of unrighteous power... but then, so should every other living creature.
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Novel writing is far and away the most exhausting work I know.
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Indeed the three prophecies about the death of individual art are, in their different ways, those of Hegel, Marx, and Freud. I don't see any way of getting beyond those prophecies.
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We had a good time mucking about during 'Band of Brothers' when we were young and single.
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I went on to Harvard and got very interested in computers and studying the earth's landscape.
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It's understandable why TV hasn't been diverse because a lot of TV writers are white dudes from Harvard. And white dudes from Harvard aren't going to immediately want to write about trans issues. They're not immediately going to want to write about a Filipino family.
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'Heartbeats' is a film on people magnifying and subliming reality when they're in love. Hence the overstylized look, the aesthetics, the robes, the dresses, the vintage, hipster-ish look: All of this is voluntary. I'm not a hipster. I'm not!
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The dove act? I'm still working on it. I don't think it's perfect yet. I got my first pair of doves when I was 14 years old. That was the beginning of the formation of that act. So it's been 24 years now that I've been working on it.
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I think mobile homes are a blight on the planet. Attractive, affordable housing is possible, and I'm out to prove it.
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The first and simplest emotion which we discover in the human mind, is curiosity.
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I travel around the world, and there are so many beautiful girls, but that's not going to make you a supermodel. You have to have something more than just a pretty face.
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I think when you're doing good work, you don't necessarily need to be validated.
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I say that Pakistanis should not consider girls as weaklings.
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I don't do the super-clean-living L.A. thing.
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I'm not in front of the camera, they are. I encourage them; I build up as much of their confidence and ego as possible. They've got to take control; I can't act it out.
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Sure, I have a lot of friends that are actors. Just because I guess I run into a lot of actors in my work.
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To love beauty is to see light.
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I think of each new season as an evolution, not a change in style.
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I like smudgy black eyes and pale lips for evening. Red lipstick looks great on other girls, but it's too much on me.
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The key to beauty is always to be looking at someone who loves you, really.
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It's rare to find women who have that balance between work and life, who are really psyched for another woman's success.
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Pioneer women were very tough - they had to be, because the men go off for long periods of time, and the women would have to be able to protect themselves and their homes.
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Women need real moments of solitude and self-reflection to balance out how much of ourselves we give away.
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We [women] are the majority of the population, majority of the electorate, majority of the workforce... and yet we're still doing majority of family unpaid or low paid labor. And we live longer. Our stuff is not "special interest" stuff. Our stuff is the stuff of the future, of the whole.
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Women should be protected from anyone's exercise of unrighteous power... but then, so should every other living creature.
