George Eliot Quotes
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Though many people said there is no joint border between Turkey and Montenegro, it feels like we are next to each other. We are in the same neighborhood.
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I am completely in favour of dialogue and engagement. But it must be a true, open dialogue.
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One of my favorite vacation memories was the Thai foot massage and Internet access salons in Bangkok, followed up by my testing cellphone coverage while wading in Provincetown Harbor on Cape Cod.
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My first introduction to television, and really just the business in general, was working with David Lynch, with his incredibly open, creative mind that was not following any rules. I didn't know it, because I hadn't been in the business.
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You have plausible deniability, as they say in politics, as an author with movies. Because if the movie is terrible, you simply say they failed to catch the genius of the book.
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It's good - it's great when somebody who is 20 years younger than you comes up and says, 'Wow, we just got turned on to you guys, and you're really great,' or something like that. I like that.
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The mullahs are part of the past in Iran, not its future. But change in Iran will come through engagement, not through confrontation.
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Sometimes we have to take on jobs that we don't love, and I always encourage any creative person to use those as the fuel to do the things that you do love to do, even if they don't pay.
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I do not believe in populism. I am not a supporter of radical decisions. Practice has shown that usually these are harmful.
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The more women serve in executive office, the more confidence they gain in themselves and that voters gain in them.
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I was surprised by how much I liked 'Hacksaw Ridge' and its depth.
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Man, 'Hill Street Blues' was on when I was 12, and I remember feeling I'd never seen anything like it. It was that far ahead of its time, with dark characters you loved. I remember Ed Marinaro, the football star.
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If you real from the heart, you real from the heart. That ain't got nothing to do with no sex or gender.
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I enjoy practicing law too much to even contemplate retiring, but I often think about engaging in serious study of the history of art, of the intricacies of classical music. I could write a fugue, or perhaps learn to play the cello.
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War seems to come out of nowhere, like rust that suddenly pops up on iron after a storm.
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When you're eight or nine years old and you look at the TV set men are landing on the moon - anything is possible. And that is something we need to not lose sight of, is that the inspiration and permission to dream is immense. … It's important to have specific dreams.
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I don't believe in one-person productions. Everyone on the team is important and needs to know that he or she is vital.
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Then he saw that she was blind, her face slightly upcast to her companion's in the manner of those whose expressions never fully attain their target - the eyes of another. (II)
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People always want me to talk about Wonder Woman, so I do.
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Don't be surprised at Fortune's turns and twists: That wheel has spun a thousand yarns before.
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The purpose of Disneyland is to make people smile.
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How unspeakably the lengthening of memories in common endears our old friends!
