Charlotte Bronte Quotes
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With respect to the first of these obstacles, it has often been made a matter of grave complaint against Political Economists, that they confine their attention to Wealth, and disregard all consideration of Happiness or Virtue.
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I love the energy over here in the U.K., the hospitality is insane.
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I wasn't allowed to have sugar as a kid. We didn't have candy or soda or anything, so Easter and Halloween were my favorite times 'cause I could eat as much candy as I wanted.
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Russell Crowe is very difficult, but it's worth it. He's the real thing. I can tell you this. Russell Crowe was just as difficult before he was an international star as he was afterwards.
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I'm compulsively on time. It drives me insane when people are late.
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The only time I eat alone is if I'm really tired or upset about something or on the phone to one of my friends, when it's easier to be alone. But you can't be too wrapped up in yourself... it starts making you look a little bit prima donna.
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Mothers are all slightly insane.
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The brain isn't like the heart. They learned how to transplant a heart. The brain is more complex.
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Not being published would be great. When I say that to other writers they look at me as if I'm totally insane.
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I haven't collected memorabilia. I am not a person who lives in the past.
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I decide that the East has definitely spoiled me for women.
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A lot of times when I'm not at work I like to let my face breath and not put makeup on.
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You see, it's actually very good that a human activity is performed very close to death, because that's where life is. Life is, at its most valuable and most full, very close to the boundary of life.
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Dilettantism is the sort of thing one must avoid.
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I am not a prophet.
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Apparently I'm introspective... levelheaded... but at the same time, absolutely insane.
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It's only a hunting spider, it won't hurt you." -Myrnin "So not the point!" -Claire "Oh, pish. It's just another living creature. Nothing to be frightened of, if handled properly. I think I'll call him Bob. Bob the spider." -Myrnin "You're insane." -Claire
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In an insane world, sanity made very little sense.
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For us, the stuff we know is writing songs, playing shows, and that's what we're trying to concentrate on. Not trying to read about yourselves or looking up things about yourselves on the Internet - it's the key, or you'll go insane!
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I'm just free. And I can express my sensuality. I can express my pain, vulnerability, my strength. All of those things. Because I had a sheltered upbringing doesn't mean I haven't been a woman. I'm a woman that has had life experiences.
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Well, I've read through that handbook for the recently deceased. It says, 'live people ignore the strange and unusual. I, myself, am strange and unusual.
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My internal and external life depend so much on the work of others that I must make an extreme effort to give as much as I receive.
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Judges are but men, and are swayed like other men by vehement prejudices. This is corruption in reality, give it whatever other name you please.
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If he were insane, however, his was a very cool and collected insanity.
