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By vice, dissipation, and extravagance, [the nobility] have been driven to the most despicable, and often the most atrocious actions, for which persons in a humble line would be exemplarily punished, while men and women of rank claim the privilege of being infamous.


Eliza Parsons

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ELIZA DOOLITTLE I was raised in Boston by three older brothers and a very strong and empowering single mom.
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ELIZA FARNHAM Better build schoolrooms for the boy, than cells and gibbets for the man.
ELIZA COOK Though language forms the preacher, 'Tis good works make the man.
ELIZA COOK Why should we strive, with cynic frown, to knock their fairy castles down?
ELIZA COOK On what strange stuff Ambition feeds!
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ELIZA TABOR 'Tis a glorious charter, deny it who can, That's breathed in the words, "I'm an Englishman."
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ELIZA FARNHAM The ultimate aim of the human mind, in all its efforts, is to become acquainted with Truth.
ELIZA FARNHAM Who would not rather trust and be deceived?
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ELIZA COUPE I wake up and play a different person every day. Playing all these different characters and trying t...
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ELIZA DUSHKU I haven't been watching any TV recently because I've been on the road, but I am an avid '...
ELIZA DOOLITTLE I was always on set, I was always working, so my study was down to the bare minimum required. So I a...
ELIZA TAYLOR I wasn't into sports when I was younger. I was one of those kids who always tried to get a note ...
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ELIZA DOOLITTLE Of all the Beauties, it is that which attracts the most lasting Admiration, gives the greatest Charm...
ELIZA HAYWOOD I don't like how women's bodies are Page 3 news. I just don't think that's big news....
ELIZA DOOLITTLE We didn't have a TV in the living room and all my friends thought we were kind of weird. When th...
ELIZA DUSHKU My school was OK, but I just wanted to do music. I was a bit of a daydreamer. I wish I'd gone ba...
ELIZA DOOLITTLE I love the physical roles. I have the utmost respect for stunt people and stunt doubles, but I like ...
ELIZA DUSHKU Though language forms the preacher, 'Tis "good works" make the man.
ELIZA COOK The coward wretch whose hand and heart can bear to torture ought below, Is ever first to quail and s...
ELIZA COOK The letters from jail are always disconcerting.
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ELIZA COUPE In college, I went to school for acting; we had to learn phonetics just to be able to do dialects an...
ELIZA COUPE Oh, how cruelly sweet are the echoes that start When Memory plays an old tune on the heart!
ELIZA COOK There's a star in the West that shall never go down Till the records of Valour decay, We must ...
ELIZA COOK After I graduated high school and came out to do 'Buffy,' I was enrolled at my mom's uni...
ELIZA DUSHKU Though language forms the preacher, 'Tis good works make the man.
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ELIZA DUSHKU My hands are huge. When I was on 'Scrubs,' Zach Braff used to make fun of them all the time....
ELIZA COUPE There's a magical tie to the land of our home, which the heart cannot break, though the footstep...
ELIZA COOK Go big or go home. Because it's true. What do you have to lose?
ELIZA DUSHKU My mom grew up in Idaho, went to Brigham Young University: they're very Molly Mormon. And my fat...
ELIZA DUSHKU I was the female lead in a romantic comedy. It's a little indie film that we shot in China calle...
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ELIZA DOOLITTLE Every time I get photographed, it's the legs. So I've insured them for a lot, for £5 m...
ELIZA DOOLITTLE As soon as something becomes 'trendy,' I go off it. I hate the idea of being a sheep and jus...
ELIZA DOOLITTLE I think that the incredible turnout in places like Dallas is just reflective of the deeply felt sens...
ELIZA LEIGHTON When you're walking around in Shanghai, I called it the City of Near Misses, because they do not...
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ELIZA DUSHKU I don't let guys do hickeys. That's like a dog marking his territory or something.
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ELIZA DUSHKU Go big or go home. Because it's true. What do you have to lose?
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ELIZA COUPE TV is the best. I wish that's how life was.
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ELIZA DUSHKU I don't really go out partying, but I'm definitely a social butterfly.
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ELIZA VICTORIA You said you’d cooperate.”
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TALCOTT PARSONS The hypothesis may be put forward, to be tested by the s subsequent investigation, that this develop...
TALCOTT PARSONS It is that of increasing knowledge of empirical fact, intimately combined with changing interpretati...
TALCOTT PARSONS Now obviously the propositions of the system have reference to matters of empirical fact; if they di...
TALCOTT PARSONS From all this it follows what the general character of the problem of the development of a body of s...
TALCOTT PARSONS The main concern of the study is with the outline of a theoretical system. Its minor variations from...
TALCOTT PARSONS The system becomes logically closed when each of the logical implications which can be derived from ...
TALCOTT PARSONS Special emphasis should be laid on this intimate interrelation of general statements about empirical...
TALCOTT PARSONS In so far as such a theory is empirically correct it will also tell us what empirical facts it shoul...
TALCOTT PARSONS Among those who are satisfactory in this respect it is desirable to have represented as great a dive...
TALCOTT PARSONS Empirical interest will be in the facts so far as they are relevant to the solution of these problem...
TALCOTT PARSONS The conception that, instead of this, contemporary society is at or near a turning point is very pro...
TALCOTT PARSONS Spencer's god was Evolution, sometimes also called Progress.
TALCOTT PARSONS The implications of these considerations justify the statement that all empirically verifiable knowl...
TALCOTT PARSONS A gloss is a total system of perception and language.
TALCOTT PARSONS The importance of certain problems concerning the facts will be inherent in the structure of the sys...
TALCOTT PARSONS Theory not only formulates what we know but also tells us what we want to know, that is, the questio...
TALCOTT PARSONS The part an actor played on stage was once written on a separate roll of paper.
TALCOTT PARSONS If there are four equations and only three variables, and no one of the equations is derivable from ...
TALCOTT PARSONS That is, a system starts with a group of interrelated propositions which involve reference to empiri...
TALCOTT PARSONS It is probably safe to say that all the changes of factual knowledge which have led to the relativit...
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ESTELLE PARSONS When I see what I want, I do it.
ESTELLE PARSONS The staff, stage managers, ushers all behaved as if they respected the actors.
ESTELLE PARSONS I like time off because I also have a life outside of theater.
ESTELLE PARSONS I have never been interested in specific roles.
ESTELLE PARSONS I find that there are few reviews that extol women as wonderful artists.
ESTELLE PARSONS I mean, there are times when you aren't working, but still believe that work will come.
ESTELLE PARSONS Acting is very start and stop.
ESTELLE PARSONS Getting work in theater has always been sort of cyclical.
ESTELLE PARSONS Don't forget the prices are so high in theater; it isn't really where a young person can go ...
ESTELLE PARSONS All of the generations go to what is chic for them, and theater seems to be an older generation'...
ESTELLE PARSONS We all need to go to good theater; that is what I believe will save it.
ESTELLE PARSONS At this point the theater America is in such a precarious place.
ESTELLE PARSONS In theater, the wellspring of the character comes from the doing of it, like a trial by fire, but in...
ESTELLE PARSONS But today I felt different, today I forgot how long it takes to get into the skin of a character and...
ESTELLE PARSONS I believe in things that move people, if the audience isn't deeply caught up and moved to either...
ESTELLE PARSONS There is some sadness for me now about acting because it used to be that there was a reverence for a...
ESTELLE PARSONS People who call themselves actors and can't ever get work; they do need to get another professio...
ESTELLE PARSONS I talked with Brian Stokes Mitchell, who agreed with me that if you have a gift there is always stuf...
ESTELLE PARSONS For anyone with half a brain they can see that this play is about the human condition.
ESTELLE PARSONS I know people like spectacle, but I'm interested in moving people.
ESTELLE PARSONS You can't just trust to luck; you have to really listen to what that character is telling you.
ESTELLE PARSONS It is so important to get respect for what you do and at the same time give it.
ESTELLE PARSONS You got to go down a lot of wrong roads to find the right one.
BOB PARSONS My mother was a librarian, and she worked at the Black Resource Center in South Central Los Angeles ...
KARYN PARSONS I don't look like a model, but you have to work with what you got.
KARYN PARSONS When I'm around black or white people, I'm always in the middle. Especially when I am around...
KARYN PARSONS I'm married to a white man, and then my daughter came out looking like the whitest white child w...
KARYN PARSONS The problem with relegating black history to one really short month, the shortest month, is not only...
KARYN PARSONS I was so worried when I left 'GH:' so scared I'd never work again.
NATHAN PARSONS As a kid, I was obsessed with myths and legends and the haunting beauty of gothic stories.
NATHAN PARSONS In L.A., you constantly go on auditions, and you're usually not what they're looking for - y...
NATHAN PARSONS I've used my time at 'GH' to learn some discipline.
NATHAN PARSONS When you love somebody, and they have a child, you love their child. You just accept it as a part of...
NATHAN PARSONS I don't think I do look like an A-Lister. I'm more interested in being comfortable in my own...
NATHAN PARSONS I had auditioned for 'The Vampire Diaries' years ago before 'The Originals' happened...
NATHAN PARSONS I try to get to the gym whenever I can, eat healthy, mostly protein and vegetables, avoid processed ...
NATHAN PARSONS Honestly, I'm not interested in gossip. Thing is, I know a lot of successful actors, and in hopi...
NATHAN PARSONS I probably use email the most. I dunno if that counts as an app. I try to stay off my electronics as...
NATHAN PARSONS I am all for cracking down on inappropriate digital behaviour. Too often the connected world is an e...
TONY PARSONS In France, you can sell a lot, but nobody outside of France ever hears of it.
ALAN PARSONS Immediately after the Floyd experience, I became a pop record producer.
ALAN PARSONS I'm delighted about the track's success in the sports world, but the frustrating thing is, I don't t...
ALAN PARSONS I was 17 and just learning what high fidelity was, what good sound was, and learning the mechanics o...
ALAN PARSONS I started in a research lab for TV cameras, then I worked at a tape duplication facility. That was t...
ALAN PARSONS I decided I was going to be the first producer to have a manager. And those songs became the backgro...
ALAN PARSONS I couldn't have asked for a greater grounding. I have never quite got used to the fact that I was on...
ALAN PARSONS Folk rock was my real roots. I did a few gigs as a folk artist, in the style of Fairport Convention.
ALAN PARSONS Any effects created before 1975 were done with either tape or echo chambers or some kind of acoustic...
ALAN PARSONS Science is intimately integrated with the whole social structure and cultural tradition. They mutual...
TALCOTT PARSONS You can get something done in a short time with fear, but in the long run it just doesn't pay off.
WENDELL PARSONS However, I would like to take this opportunity to stress that our strategy remains unchanged - to cr...
ALEX PARSONS I never thought it would work (this way) with me. I just wanted the opportunity to play. This heavil...
ALEX PARSONS After the Nike camp, I got offered by Kentucky and then Utah and Arizona came by (during spring prac...
ALEX PARSONS