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.
Quotes to Explore
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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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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 received my doctorate from the University of Vienna in 1910.
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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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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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Love, friendship, respect, do not unite people as much as a common hatred for something.
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For writing, I get up early in the morning - 5 o'clock, 4:30. I'm a morning person... So I try to do it while people are asleep. The mornings are the nicest.
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The camera was kind to me. But I was never a screen personality like Gable or Flynn. The camera did something with their faces that was special.
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For me, the most enjoyable type of singing is opera. It allows you to move, to wear a costume... to do something with your body. When singing in concert, you have to stand up in front of the audience, next to the conductor, which is less natural.
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It's the equivalent of putting on the brakes suddenly while driving uphill.
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I do have the sense that, although there may be no one way to write a novel, there are many novelists who are in fact part of some sort of larger literary community, whether in the form of a writing group or an MFA program, to name two of the more common forms.
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Hard work spotlights the character of people: some turn up their sleeves, some turn up their noses, and some don't turn up at all.
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I understand that some people like certain things more than others, but by the time you are an adult, you really should be able to sit down and eat pretty much anything.
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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.
