Charles Reade Quotes
The joys we expect are not so bright, nor the troubles so dark as we fancy they will be.
Quotes to Explore
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My beliefs will run through everything I do. My beliefs, my values are my anchor and when people try to drag me, as I know they will, it is to that sense of right and wrong, that sense of who I am and what I believe, to which I will always hold.
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So, you know, parenting is a very intimate and amazing experience and one of the best experiences of my life.
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When history looks back, it will prove what I'll die knowing.
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I believe that stories find writers, writers don't find stories. With the 'Pendragon' series, I actually had multiple story ideas and decided that instead of writing them individually, I would create a character whose journey would thread them all together.
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When I was sixteen years old, I was sentenced to two years in prison; the Swedish government changed it, so I could go to a boarding school as part of a social programme. I was in this boarding school with some of the richest kids in Sweden.
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I personally think Beyonce's a strong feminist. What she's done in music and for women is unprecedented. I love her. She definitely makes me feel like more of a woman.
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We develop our propensity to forgive or not to forgive by what we see illustrated at the early ages of our development.
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If you don't learn to laugh at troubles, you won't have anything to laugh at when you grow old.
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I never, never thought one day I will sing at La Scala or I will get the Grammy. I'm lucky. I work a lot with a teacher, with my coach.
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I'm nearsighted in my right eye, have glaucoma in my left, and the nerves in my hands are on Medicare. Basically, I'm on the wrong end of a short sale.
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Patriotism is the last refuge of the scoundrel.
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I feel like something I've wanted to do for a really long time, in a feature film or anything, is playing a rocker. Somewhere where I can be on a stage and have a guitar or a microphone and just kind of jam out.
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In Westerns you were permitted to kiss your horse but never your girl.
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Truth is the number one element in whatever you do with music.
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It is a warning to all those who may think about becoming involved with a terrorist network, people who are willing to destroy their own lives are hard to deter.
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I grew up in a small town where everyone wanted to be the same or look the same and was afraid to be different.
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The work is with me when I wake up in the morning; it is with me while I eat my breakfast in bed and run through the newspaper, while I shave and bathe and dress.
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To prove the Gospels by a miracle is to prove an absurdity by something contrary to nature.
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I hope I get the bliss. And I know I'm going to have to work for it. But I've got to say, really, I have no kind of, can I say "secular religiosity"? ... I don't have a denominational sight.
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I feel like a lot of comedians do have that deep, dark thing. I have my stuff, but I don't go to that dark place.
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I remember the dark days when, thanks to 1966's 'Batman' with Adam West, comics were considered the ugly stepchild of popular culture.
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The joys we expect are not so bright, nor the troubles so dark as we fancy they will be.
