George Eliot Quotes
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I know I'm in the exceptional position of having money, but I didn't have it for many decades. I'm always trying to get shows put on for 25 per cent less production costs.
Cameron Mackintosh -
I don't think the media circus has ever been a shock to my life seeing as I was with Richard Burton and Elizabeth Taylor when I was 17.
Francesca Annis -
I like being my age. I kind of have a political thing about it.
Frances McDormand -
I've always believed that a good twist is one that, when it is presented to the audience, half of them say, 'I saw that coming.' And half of them are completely and totally shocked. Because if you don't have the half that saw it coming, then it wasn't fair: You never gave the audience a chance to guess it.
Damon Lindelof -
I am a Zionist.
Yair Lapid -
It is a debt we owe to the purity of our religion to show that it is at variance with that law which warrants slavery.
Patrick Henry
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There's a monster outside my room, can I have a glass of water?
M. Night Shyamalan -
I probably follow all sports a little bit. I like hockey quite a bit. I like football. I like college basketball when it gets down to March Madness. I like baseball. I enjoy them all. I watch them all.
Vince Vaughn -
The greatest power that a person possesses is the power to choose.
J. Martin Kohe -
You can't get there alone. People have to help you, and I do believe in karma. I believe in paybacks. You get people to help you by telling the truth, by being earnest.
Randy Pausch -
And when you look at the Turtle's movie there is something there, definitely something there.
Eddie Campbell -
Clothes are not frippery. Properly done, they can be an art form.
Iris Apfel
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The great problem there is we have to have the cooperation of those other Asian countries.
Samuel P. Huntington -
Therefore, if we are a Nation of laws and a Nation of immigrants, immigration should occur within a legal framework, not through the machinations of illegal schemes and scams that threaten our national security.
J. D. Hayworth -
I always believe that every one of us is working hard not only for our own performance but also to give something significant back to the societies we live in.
Yani Tseng -
'Halo' I wrote with my grandpa in his nursing home. When I went to visit him, he'd often comment on my halo. But of course, I couldn't see. And he always - he had pictures of Jesus with these beautiful halos. And so I asked him if he'd write a song with me about Jesus' halo.
Abigail Washburn -
I had great mentors in my parents who always sought to understand the world around them. And they would push me to really think things through.
Mae Jemison -
If supporters of equality for women want to vote for the best candidate, they must look to a person regardless of gender and must disregard the gender of political opponents.
Karen DeCrow
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I just think there's a general interest in the world of computers.
Irwin Winkler -
I have a green thumb. I really like to get into the shrubs, the bushes, and really cultivate.
Jeffrey Donovan -
When my wife's Aunt Caroline was in her nineties, she lived with us, and she once remarked: 'Remembrance is sufficient of the beauty we have seen.' I cherish the remembrance of the beauty I have seen. I cherish the grave, compulsive word.
E. B. White -
The most destructive element in the human mind is fear. Fear creates aggressiveness.
Dorothy Thompson -
I am just getting into Zora Neale Hurston, who is possibly a much better writer than the critics and rivals who tried to erase her from history, resulting in a life in which she worked as a maid and died in a welfare nursing home. She's clever. She does something modern to the sentence.
Rachel Kushner -
"Abroad," that large home of ruined reputations.
George Eliot