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George Eliot Quotes

In all private quarrels the duller nature is triumphant by reason of dullness.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: author
Nationality: british
Birth: November 22, 1819 - December 22, 1880

Topics

Nature Reason Triumphant Private

Besides, it doesn't make any sense to have these characters living in the year 3000 when all their points of reference are from the pop culture of the 80's and the 90's.

Culture Year Living Pop Culture Pop

In Europe, you can sit out and sit in the sun, and you get a very golden tan. The tan you get in Las Vegas is a darker tan, and it's not the same.

Sun Vegas You Golden Europe Out

It's my goal to help actors achieve their best work, and I think I speak the same language as actors, so I understand how they do it, and I just love being able to create the playground in which they build their beautiful sandcastle.

Work Love Beautiful Best Think Help

I played American Legion ball starting when I was 14. But I didn't catch until I was 17. I was 75-3 as a high school pitcher, but it was like everybody knew that I was supposed to be a catcher. When the scouts would come around, and I was pitching, they'd make me take infield practice so the scouts could watch me throw.

School Practice Me High School High

While most trudge through their days straight-jacketed in the social compact, living for others as much as or more than for themselves, a select few excel.

Living Others More Through Days

If you know that life is basically going to be horrendously difficult, at best, and all but unlivable at worst, or possibly even unlivable, do you go on? And the choice to go on is the only thing that I think can be called hope. Because if hope isn't forced to encounter the worst possibility, then it's a lie.

Life Hope Best Lie Think You

I've always been known in my family as the one who imitates the crazy Dominican relatives.

Family Crazy Always Relatives Been

I just love making music and entertaining. I really do live for this culture. I don't think about the other stuff.

Love Live Music Culture Think Stuff

But don't call me an actor. I'm just a worker. I am an entertainer. Don't say that what I am doing is art.

Art I Am Me Doing Say Actor

Those indoctrinated by leftist thinking become largely incapable of making accurate moral judgments.

Thinking Moral Become Making Leftist

I was trained in the '50s as a New Critic. I remember what literature was like before the New Critics, when people stood up and talked about Shelley's soul and such things.

Clifford Geertz

Soul People Literature Remember New

Music and literature have always and continue to be massive influences. Writers such as Seamus Heaney and Frank McGuinness. I have always admired the humanitarians that I knew growing up in Derry whose influence steered me in the direction of some of the work that I have chosen in the past.

Bronagh Gallagher

Work Music Past Me Growing Up

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