George Eliot Quotes
What moments of despair that life would ever be made precious to me by the consciousness that I lived to some good purpose! It was that sort of despair that sucked away the sap of half the hours which might have been filled by energetic youthful activity: and the same demon tries to get hold of me again whenever an old work is dismissed and a new one is being meditated.
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My father was a civil servant in northern India where I was born. As a boy I saw the dire effects of poverty and illiteracy, especially on women and children. It often seemed that the only thing separating me from them was luck.
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Fear is the dark room where the Devil develops his negatives.
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It's funny, I was talking to somebody who writes for a cop show, and he was saying how they aren't allowed to acknowledge Christmas, Thanksgiving, Valentine's Day, just because it has to be able to play forever.
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A true friend encourages us, comforts us, supports us like a big easy chair, offering us a safe refuge from the world.
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Many men start being friendly with women because they are trying to seduce them. I'm not trying to seduce them. I just like hanging out with them.
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When you decide to do this kind of music then you just accept the facts.
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In China, we don't consider someone truly beautiful until we have known them for a long time, and we know what's underneath the skin.
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I could probably name thousands of albums that I want.
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I am not afraid to go to jail.
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I don't think you'll ever get enough picking.
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In sport, a massive amount is to do with genetics.
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I want to be like Robin Williams, really. It's all the different characters he does, all the different voices.
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There's a very passionate pro-chewing movement on the Internet called Chewdiasm. They say that we should be chewing 50 to 100 times per mouthful, which is insane. I tried that. It takes like a day and a half to eat a sandwich. But their basic idea is right. If you chew, you'll eat slower and you will get more nutrients.
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People love gospel music. It's calming. It's soothing. It gets right to the point of whatever you're dealing with.
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It's hard finding people you trust or who aren't going to take your money. Everyone wants to get a piece of whatever you're doing. It's a nightmare.
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Chief executives, who themselves own few shares of their companies, have no more feeling for the average stockholder than they do for baboons in Africa.
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You can be romantically interested in someone and love them and still, I think, be really interested in things and a certain lifestyle that person might provide.
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It's totally my dream job. I grew up watching 'Saturday Night Live.' We'd watch it at sleepover parties and quote it.
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Those who have knowledge, don't predict. Those who predict, don't have knowledge.
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You always have to know when to bow out. You bow out while you are on top.
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In the early 1980s, the government of New Zealand fell into the hands of true believers, globalist believers, and they embraced the theory of inevitability perhaps more completely than anybody else. And it solved in the very short term some of their debt problems, but in the medium- and long-term, it left them in real economic trouble.
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I have to keep making films, getting better in my craft, and the way to do that is to work with people who know what they're doing and who can help me.
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Be prepared to work hard to be a writer.
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What moments of despair that life would ever be made precious to me by the consciousness that I lived to some good purpose! It was that sort of despair that sucked away the sap of half the hours which might have been filled by energetic youthful activity: and the same demon tries to get hold of me again whenever an old work is dismissed and a new one is being meditated.
