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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I don't want awkward shows with people looking at their phones or tweeting. That's something you should do at home.
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By the end of Fashion Week my apartment is covered with makeup and clothes and shoes. Everything you can think of.
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The freshwater fish fauna of Florida is one of the most interesting in the United States. It is a fauna developed in a region of recent geologic origin, low topographic relief, poor drainage, and unusual geographic configuration, and consequently exhibits certain very peculiar features. Some of the characteristic continental groups apparently have not had time to establish themselves in the peninsula since its elevation above the sea, while others have doubtless failed to find suitable conditions in its low and swamp-bordered water courses.
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I know 'Vikings' isn't really based in magic, but it goes back to Old World spirituality and different religions, and a lot of voodoo.
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What is fright by night is curiosity by day.
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Make 'em laugh; make 'em cry; make 'em wait.
