Charles Reade Quotes
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I think if a horror movie is really scary, you'll think about it for weeks, and there's something kind of fun about that - about our art, really.
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I would prefer to have a more appealing job. If I could still change careers, I would prefer it. This unfortunate art is made for long beards and ugly faces rather than for a relatively well-endowed woman.
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The first sentence of a book is a promise.
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Some growths can be detected early, making for increased accuracy in diagnosis. Some can be cured and others controlled.
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When I became a published writer, I said, 'Whatever I can do to help the libraries I want to do,' so all of my book tours since then have involved me coming to a library and talking about how important libraries are for a community.
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I am very optimistic, and I wish that God almighty grants me success to get a qualifying time. Only then can I go to the Olympics. If this happens I will be the first Palestinian athlete to gain a qualifying time. This will be a big achievement.
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Everything people say I couldn't do I've done.
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My connection with Basquiat was really in Los Angeles, which really was a whole different world to what he was experiencing in New York.
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My definition of a redundancy is an air-bag in a politician's car.
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The Bush administration doesn't particularly like public participation. It makes them look bad.
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There are different flavours of sexiness.
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Never put anything on paper, my boy, and never trust a man with a small black moustache.
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Acting is the physical representation of a mental picture and the projection of an emotional concept.
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Ignorance is a kind of insanity in the human animal. People who delight in torturing defenseless children or tiny creatures are in reality insane. The terrible thing is that people who are madmen in private may wear a totally bland and innocent expression in public.
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The human race's prospects of survival were considerably better when we were defenceless against tigers than they are today when we have become defenceless against ourselves.
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What is a date, really, but a job interview that lasts all night? The only difference is there aren't many job interviews where there's a chance you'll end up naked at the end of it. 'Well, Bill, the boss thinks you're the right man for the job; why don't you strip down and meet some of the people you'll be working with?'
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It was virtually impossible to think of a sentence that made a positive use of that dreadful word ‘enough’, let alone one that started raving about ‘nothing’.
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Guard your roving thoughts with a jealous care, for speech is but the dealer of thoughts, and every fool can plainly read in your words what is the hour of your thoughts.
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The caged eagle become a metaphor for all forms of isolation, the ultimate in imprisonment. A zoo is prison.
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Wilderness is harder and harder to find these days on this beautiful planet, and we're abusing our planet to the point of almost no return.
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The Guns, Thank God, The Guns.
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Make 'em laugh; make 'em cry; make 'em wait.
