George Eliot Quotes
If a woman's young and pretty, I think you can see her good looks all the better for her being plainly dressed.
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Happiness is the absence of the striving for happiness.
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Archery requires very sensitive muscles.
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Finding a good band is Iike finding a good wife. You got to keep trying till you find the right one.
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Most people who end up being successful have good grades, but it's orthogonal - there's no extra information than if they put together a website and have bunch of fans who love coming and seeing what they're doing.
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Now there are certain things you have to prepare - like dialect and special skills. But in the moment, interaction between two characters on the page doesn't need - for me, I don't need to prepare that.
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The proper study of Man is anything but Man; and the most improper job of any man, even saints (who at any rate were at least unwilling to take it on), is bossing other men. Not one in a million is fit for it, and least of all those who seek the opportunity.
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I don't believe there is any finer mission on Earth than just to make people laugh.
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Lawmakers misrepresent the facts when they call the manufacturing deduction known as Section 199 - passed by Congress in 2004 to spur domestic job growth - a 'subsidy' for oil and gas firms. The truth is that all U.S. manufacturers, from software producers to filmmakers and coffee roasters, are eligible for this deduction.
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I like naturally occurring film grain, and what happens to film when it's under- and over-exposed.
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I received my doctorate from the University of Vienna in 1910.
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Politicians will talk strategy and tactics and policies and programs until they're blue in the face, or you strangle them and they turn blue.
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The atmosphere at my school was very competitive. Young girls were competing with each other every day for status, for leadership, for the affection of the teachers. I hated it.
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Varieties of angels, like varieties of love, are many.
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It is a process of finding the right music then planning a costume to fit that style of music.
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There's nothing in Chinese culture that is an equivalent of the geisha. It's so different, so special to Japan.
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I've done classical theaters. I played Hamlet myself and Romeo.
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But no nation can base its survival and development on luck and prayers alone while its leadership fritters away every available opportunity for success and concrete achievement.
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Music is a passion of mine. I'm always listening, always learning.
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We have to be aggressive when those we stick up for have no voice. I don't consider it radical to say cruelty is wrong and that animals should be respected. I consider it radical to eat corpses, put electrodes in animals' heads, make elephants live in chains in the circus, and poison animals we consider a nuisance.
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...with like-minded people one cannot discuss. With like-minded people one can only participate in a church service, and, as is widely known, I do not like church services.
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If you want to be an actor or actress out of high school or college, just know what you're getting in for. It's a job. If you look at it like a job, and you make it a career and a profession, then you're bound to do well.
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'Damn you!' Dagenham raged, 'Don’t you realize that you can’t trust people? They don’t know enough for their own good.''Then let them learn or die. We’re all in this together. Let’s live or die together.'
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If a woman's young and pretty, I think you can see her good looks all the better for her being plainly dressed.
