George Eliot Quotes
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I was a dispatcher, flat-tire fixer, changed the oil, fixed the fan belts. There was nothing too good for me.
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In truth, to know oneself seems to be the hardest of all things. Not only our eye, which observes external objects, does not use the sense of sight upon itself, but even our mind, which contemplates intently another's sin, is slow in the recognition of its own defects.
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I've always been a history lover. I've spent a lot of recreational time walking around historical castles and estates, in Britain and Europe, and so I know what the real thing looks like.
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Because with Black Label and all the fans it's just one big family.
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When I'm making a film, I'm obsessive about what I do, and I get totally into it. That's all I'm eating, breathing, living at that moment.
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I love the Royal Family. The Queen, she's fabulous.
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It's incredible what happens when you explain to kids what good food is - they get so excited! They go home and tell their parents... and they're excited to cook the recipes themselves in class.
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'Twilight's got some avid - and rabid - fans.
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I have admired David Bromley's work for years. He possesses such a wild and vivid imagination and really sees the beauty in everything.
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The hero is one who kindles a great light in the world, who sets up blazing torches in the dark streets of life for men to see by.
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After the Soviet Union collapsed, people thought I wasn't funny anymore.
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The United States has grown into a remarkable nation specifically because of our independent spirit and free market.
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Any committee is only as good as the most knowledgeable, determined and vigorous person on it. There must be somebody who provides the flame.
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I don't particularly like L.A.
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I'd like to be curvier.
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I just like doing comedies, and think that my timing and love for the genre set me apart from other young women who look like me.
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You have to defeat a great players aura more than his game.
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You can lead a horse to water and you can even make it drink, but you can't make actresses wear what they don't want to wear.
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I don't like to talk much, even when people speak bad about me. Inside me, I say, 'Why do they have to think of me that way?' But I know how I am. My objective is not that people follow me, but I'm happy that they do.
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The evil that machinery is doing is not merely in the consequence of its work but in the fact that it makes men themselves machines also.
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I have always known what I wanted, and that was beauty... in every form.
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I did not want to go out at 5:30 in the morning with my stocking cap and my navy pea coat on and shoot lines and grades for the rest of my life.
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I think being nice and being safe is unfair to yourself when you have big dreams as a woman. I think you have to prepare yourself that not everyone in this world has the same personality... The one thing I've chosen to be great at in my life is singing - so why not be proud that I'm great at it?
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Life began with waking up and loving my mother's face.