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.
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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.
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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.
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I feel like, for me, different environments are very important to me creatively. I think it's my norm to be on the move.
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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.
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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.
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For every reason it's not possible, there are hundreds of people who have faced the same circumstances and succeeded.
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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.
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Hold the door for a lady. Wait until a lady is out of the elevator.
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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.
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Few things are more important to our country's future than recruiting and keeping great teachers in our schools.
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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.
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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.
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I began modeling in N.Y. and doing commercials. That led to regional theatre and then Broadway and then movies.
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I am really honoured, but if the prize had gone to Mahatma Gandhi before me, I would have been more honoured.
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Directors, producers can make you look good or make you look bad.
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Democratic societies are unfit for the publication of such thunderous revelations as I am in the habit of making.
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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.
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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.
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Republicans need to speak up, and people need to know that not all Republicans are represented by the hostile, vile voice of Donald Trump.
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We used to moralize; today we normalize, and performance anxiety is the secular version of our old religious guilt.
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Gender-based job restrictions tend to be associated with wider wage gaps and lower employment rates for women. And where girls' future earning potential is limited, families may choose to send their brothers to school instead.
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I dated a lot of girls all through high school, and in college I dated a young lady for about eight months.
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Penetration of our mind is our goal, but in the beginning to set things in motion, there is no substitute for sweat.
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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.
