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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I don't particularly like L.A.
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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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Without coffee, nothing gets written. Period.
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In this digital age, there is no place to hide behind public relations people. This digital age requires leaders to be visible and authentic and to be able to communicate the decisions they've made and why they've made them, to be able to acknowledge when they've made a mistake and to move forward, to engage in the debate.
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I have always been a Monarchist. In sentiment I still am. Now it is too late for me to change. But it is not for me to say that the new way is not the better way, the right way. So it may prove to be.
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You always need younger guys if you're going to be successful in the long term.
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The windiest militant trash Important Persons shout Is not so crude as our wish.
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Single-mindedness is all very well in cows or baboons; in an animal claiming to belong to the same species as Shakespeare it is simply disgraceful.
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I think I'm known as an adventuress. Even generally in life, I have no fear. It's not that I'm not afraid of things, but when I am afraid of something, I don't back away - I approach it and try to understand what makes me afraid.
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Life began with waking up and loving my mother's face.
