George Meredith Quotes
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When I was a kid in Michigan, I used to play ball with a town team on Sunday. Of course, I'd go to church first. Played the church organ, as a matter of fact.
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Violence would be a huge gift to those who want a divided Lebanon.
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I went to an all-girls Catholic high school. The three things that they focused on were reading, writing, and arithmetic. My goodness, this is a novel idea in this modern society. I was really good at all three of these things. I was particularly good at math.
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Babies are smart. They can tell the difference between a responsive face and a blank face, wiped clean of emotion.
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The events that I have attended to mark my Diamond Jubilee have been a humbling experience. It has touched me deeply to see so many thousands of families, neighbors and friends celebrating together in such a happy atmosphere.
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I love old movies. The '40s theatre pace is fantastic.
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I used to wear miniskirts with my GB top, and sparkly sandals, and the boys would be like: 'Oh my gosh, this girl cannot be serious.'
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I've done tons of Debbie Allen musicals. I was a dancer in 'Glee,' and I was a Laker girl for three months.
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Even as a kid, I was a businessman. I figured out that if you plucked all the berries off my neighbor's tree and smashed them up, they made a Nickelodeon Gak-type consistency. I sold them to all the neighborhood kids and made stacks of quarters. Of course, the berries were poisonous, and I got in all types of trouble.
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Any director, if you really ask them, will tell you that the toughest thing to do is like a dinner table or a dialogue scene, because you need to keep that electricity maintained throughout the course of the film.
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The season of failure is the best time for sowing the seeds of success.
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I'm proud of 'Fifty Shades of Grey.' I don't need to distance myself from that. The more work I do, the more the general public sees the different things I can do. Do I think it opened doors? Yeah. More people know my name.
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If you're walking down the right path and you're willing to keep walking, eventually you'll make progress.
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In Westerns you were permitted to kiss your horse but never your girl.
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Who cares about great marks left behind? We have one life... just one. Our life. We have nothing else.
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My role now is as an artist and as a mogul to inspire and give others opportunities.
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It makes me feel good that I can now sit there and go, I've worked with Jack Nicholson, Al Pacino, all the great actors that I've worked with... Sir Ben Kingsley.
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When it comes down to hardball, we have a veto pen, and I've used it in the past, and I expect we will have opportunity to use it in the future. That's the nature of the business.
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It is a commonplace by now to say that the urban school systems of America contain a higher percentage of Negro children each year.
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The pressure of 'what are you going to do?' makes everyone feel like they haven't done anything yet.
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We're in very bad trouble if we don't understand the planet we're trying to save.
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The business of a bank is to lend money; which amounts, nowadays, to lending credit.
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Ah, what a dusty answer gets the soul when hot for certainties in this our life!
