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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When history looks back, it will prove what I'll die knowing.
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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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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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Like every Southern writer, I thought that I needed to write the next 'Gone With the Wind.'
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Success is getting what you want. Happiness is wanting what you get.
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I was on paper earning more money and having more success than I'd ever had. And it was also the most miserable I've ever been. When those things collided, I realised something was off. That's when I started poking around to figure out what was wrong.
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I prefer movies because the money is better and certainly because you really know where you stand when you are making movies, and I have made a lot of them: 50-something - I don't know.
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Bike is the most democratic transport vehicle. Bike is the most daring, challenging as it gives its owner the tempting feeling of freedom, that is why one can say without any exaggeration, bike is a symbol of freedom
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In the 20 long, hungry years between my late teens and late 30s I bought in to virtually every new diet and/or exercise regime that hoved into view, particularly at this most vulnerable time for those of us prone to poor body image - a new year.
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When trust works out right, it can be absolutely magical.
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Women want to watch the dark stuff.
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The joys we expect are not so bright, nor the troubles so dark as we fancy they will be.
