George Eliot Quotes
What novelty is worth that sweet monotony where everything is known, and loved because it is known?
Quotes to Explore
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Are you loving having these great iconic stories back as much as I am? 'One Life' is back in action and I love putting my 'Blair on' again.
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I have to satisfy my audience.
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I didn't really feel that there were any filler tracks on 'The Red Shoes,' but if I were to do that album now, I wouldn't make it so long.
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My hands, my feet, I throw my whole body to say all that is within me.
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It's really important, especially for young girls, to see that if you fall down, you get back up. If you get sick, you get back up. People are going to say what they want.
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But I was always much more interested in reading fashion magazines than I was music magazines when I was a teenager. Just that sense of romanticism and escapism and the dream of it has always been quite alluring to me, as well as that sense of becoming a character through clothes.
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She looked at me penetratingly. So I suppose you can figure out what happened next.
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If we ever find out how the brain works, with all its complexity, then we will be able to build a machine that has consciousness. And if that happens, that is a road to planetary disaster because everything we've thought about ourselves, since the Bronze Age, the Bible, all of that will be gone.
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Often the starting point for characters, for me, is finding a little, most minor detail, and I'll go from there.
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My favourite smell is horses. In fact, most of the time, I do smell like horses.
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Scatter your flowers as you go; you will never go this way again.
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I still get mad. I still get upset. But I let it go more quickly.
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Male and female gossip also sounds different, as women use more animated tones, more detail and more feedback.
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You're miserable, edgy and tired. You're in the perfect mood for journalism.
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I am just reflecting the times. I can't ignore them.
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I think any time people behave in a way that's truly them, then they'll never fail. You get in trouble when you try to copy others.
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Applause is the most powerful thing... people talk about the sound of it, but what I hear is glee.
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It takes a certain amount of courage to tackle very hard problems in science, I now realise. You don't know what the timescale of your work will be: decades or only a few years.
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Paris is a place where, for me, just walking down a street that I've never been down before is like going to a movie.
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I don't know why femininity should be associated with weakness. Women should be free to express who they are without thinking, 'I need to act like a man, or I need to tone it down to be successful.' That's a very good way to keep women down.
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I loved France, although I initially thought they were stubborn for always speaking French.
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We envy people we love for being always in their own loved company.
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Novelty always sparks ideas.
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What novelty is worth that sweet monotony where everything is known, and loved because it is known?
