Eliza Doolittle Quotes

My school was OK, but I just wanted to do music. I was a bit of a daydreamer. I wish I'd gone back and paid more attention.

Eliza Doolittle

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• I feel like I've grown up a bit. I'm a bit more confident, and I've been reading more, and I've had a little more time to myself. I went on this writing trip to gather my thoughts about where and who I am in this world, and why we're all here.

  

  Imogen Heap
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• I'm so intrigued by women throughout history where the significance of what they were representing at that time is obscured by the fact a man saved them or they were prostitutes.

  

  Zoe Saldana
  • Time
  • Women
  • History

• I feel like, for me, different environments are very important to me creatively. I think it's my norm to be on the move.

  

  K. Flay
  • Different
  • Important
  • Think

• With Lille, we could have gone to the South of France, and people wouldn't have recognised us. But at Chelsea, the players are at another level. Everything has changed – the language, the country – but it is up to me to adapt.

  

  Eden Hazard
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• Like baseball, food will never go out of style; we will always need to eat and we will always find it entertaining. I think of food TV this way - all the fun and none of the calories.

  

  Gail Simmons
  • Fun
  • Food
  • Style

• For every reason it's not possible, there are hundreds of people who have faced the same circumstances and succeeded.

  

  Jack Canfield
  • People
  • Same
  • Circumstances

• We want to see Israel withdraw from our territory. But we don't want to be accountable vis-a-vis Israel on the security basis, because we don't see, in the absence of a peace agreement, that Lebanon can really be accountable to Israel if anything happens.

  

  Rafik Hariri
  • Want
  • Peace
  • Security

• Hold the door for a lady. Wait until a lady is out of the elevator.

  

  Waris Ahluwalia
  • Door
  • Wait
  • Elevator

• Obviously, for me, story is first and foremost, even in the face of the attractive idea of having all the cast there, or having a great piece of talent come to it.

  

  Vin Diesel
  • Story
  • Idea
  • Talent

• Few things are more important to our country's future than recruiting and keeping great teachers in our schools.

  

  Wendy Kopp
  • Great
  • Important
  • Country

• When I interview celebrities, I always try to throw them off balance. My favorite is to ask 'em about crazy sex stuff like donkey punches and Monroe transfers. Works every time.

  

  Rachel Perry
  • Time
  • Crazy
  • Sex

• I simply wanted to get through college as quickly as humanly possible. I had no interest in extracurricular activities or anything that required me to be social. I was allergic to people.

  

  Nadine Velazquez
  • People
  • Me
  • College

• I began modeling in N.Y. and doing commercials. That led to regional theatre and then Broadway and then movies.

  

  Ian Ziering
  • Theatre
  • Movies
  • Modeling

• I am really honoured, but if the prize had gone to Mahatma Gandhi before me, I would have been more honoured.

  

  Kailash Satyarthi
  • Prize
  • Honoured
  • Mahatma Gandhi

• Directors, producers can make you look good or make you look bad.

  

  Aaron Eckhart
  • Good
  • Bad
  • Look

• Democratic societies are unfit for the publication of such thunderous revelations as I am in the habit of making.

  

  Salvador Dali
  • Democratic
  • Revelations
  • Societies

• I like to see a film and then start scoring it in my mind while doing something unrelated. You just grasp a film and start working, and something unpredictable comes out from a third element. The mind, the more active it is, the more productive it is.

  

  A. R. Rahman
  • Mind
  • Doing
  • Start

• I find the presence of the sea quite inspiring, and sometimes I do just get out and walk around and take in the sea breeze to try and clear my mind.

  

  Garth Nix
  • Mind
  • Sea
  • Walk

• You know, Hillary Clinton's always saying how Republicans don't follow science? Well, they're the ones not listening to the scientists today, because doctors say that at 20 weeks that is a viable life inside the womb. And at that point, it's a life that we have the right to protect, and I think we should protect.

  

  George Pataki
  • Life
  • Today
  • Science

• Love in my case is not indispensable to pleasure, nor is respect. Is it possible, therefore, that the disgust, the humiliation begin afterward, when a man subdues you and violates you at his pleasure solely because now you belong to him, love or not, respect or not?

  

  Elena Ferrante
  • Love
  • Respect
  • Pleasure

• A lot of times, when I interact with someone for the first time, I don't want to see the presentation.

  

  Brad Feld
  • Time

• There's a difference between wanting to appear confident and actually feeling confident. I think there have been many times when I've overcompensated for how nervous or out of place I feel. I was like that at school.

  

  James Corden
  • School
  • Feeling

• I didn't think at all as a young child that music would be my profession. It was just something that one did along with going to Brownies or going to church or going to school or anything else that one did in sort of one's very young life.

  

  Jessye Norman
  • Life
  • Music
  • School

• My school was OK, but I just wanted to do music. I was a bit of a daydreamer. I wish I'd gone back and paid more attention.

  

  Eliza Doolittle
  • Music
  • School
  • Attention