Charles Reade Quotes
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People sometimes recognize me here, but they are very nice.
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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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Primary education was in the first place to teach people to be good people. Only secondary education teaches people to also be useful people.
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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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When I work on a novel, I usually have one character and a setting in mind.
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Reframing an extract as a quotation constitutes a kind of coauthorship. With no change in wording, the cited passage becomes different. I imagine that the thrill of making an anthology includes the opportunity to become such a coauthor.
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I would go to the all-night grocery store and pretend that I was at Studio 54 because it was the only place open all night. Truman Capote in the frozen foods. Andy Warhol over in vegetables.
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Now and again I feel the astonishment of being alive like this, in this body.
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Make 'em laugh; make 'em cry; make 'em wait.
