David Copperfield Quotes

Magic came very easy for me when I was a kid. When I was 8 years old I started doing it, and by the time I was 12, I was already published in magic books.

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• This is how it has been since time began: If you want to make something really worthwhile and true, then you have to suffer for it.

  

  Iris DeMent
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  • True
  • Want

• All the forces in the world are not so powerful as an idea whose time has come.

  

  Victor Hugo
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  • World
  • Power

• It's actually meditative to sit in a character for an extended period of time, realizing what your relationship is to who you're playing and then letting go, just being there.

  

  Frances Conroy
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  • Character
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• Sometimes things in life take a few years to digest, and they find their way into the work later on. Sometimes I'm writing about things from eight years ago-they just took a long time to distill and come out in the appropriate way.

  

  Beck
  • Life
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• I don't even remember the last time I bought an album, honestly.

  

  Action Bronson
  • Time
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• I love to clean my ears. I've heard that you're not supposed to do it every day, but I throw caution to the wind for some quality time with a strong Q-Tip.

  

  Rachel Nichols
  • Time
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• I'm a light sleeper. I've never been one of those people who can put their head down and suddenly everything disappears. Nighttime is the time I get most scared, anxious or worried. In those darker moments before waking or sleeping is when I feel most, I don't know, I can turn on myself, and my imagination can take me dark places.

  

  Florence Welch Florence and the Machine
  • People
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  • Light

• I love downtown L.A .and I relish any opportunity to spend time there.

  

  Zooey Deschanel
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  • Love
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• There's nothing like a music festival. People are ready to have a good time. I don't think anyone comes to a festival going, 'I'm gonna be a complete bummer today.'

  

  Gary Clark Jr.
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  • Good

• You cannot truly listen to anyone and do anything else at the same time.

  

  M. Scott Peck
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  • You
  • Same

• All those who offer an opinion on any doubtful point should first clear their minds of every sentiment of dislike, friendship, anger or pity.

  

  Sallust
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  • Anger

• I still think reading something like 'Ulysses' takes a tremendous investment of time, but it repays all of it with so much interest.

  

  D. B. Weiss
  • Time
  • Think
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• The greatest glory in living lies not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson
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  • Fall
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• I want to make it clear that I honestly answered every question put to me during the so-called Iran-Contra hearings. But if they didn't ask me about something, I wasn't about to reveal things that would put other people in jeopardy.

  

  Oliver North
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• I aim to direct as much as I act at some point in time.

  

  Ian Somerhalder
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• There was one point in high school actually when I was on the chess team, marching band, model United Nations and debate club all at the same time. And I would spend time with the computer club after school. And I had just quit pottery club, which I was in junior high, but I let that go.

  

  Rainn Wilson
  • Time
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• The storm came. Lives were washed away. Ancient pains resurfaced. Now it is time for a sea of change.

  

  Tavis Smiley
  • Time
  • Change
  • Sea

• I definitely think being a young girl, there's a time where - like when you're in middle school or when you first start liking boys - you don't really feel comfortable. You remember that time when you first got your period, or when your boobs started coming in, that you were like, 'This is weird.' You have to grow into yourself.

  

  Camila Cabello Fifth Harmony
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  • Remember

• Dedication: To my daughter Leonora without whose never-failing sympathy and encouragement this book would have been finished in half the time.

  

  P. G. Wodehouse
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  • Daughter

• It takes more time to rework a painting than it takes to fill in the canvas in the first place. I wish I could get them all right with the first coat like many of the old masters could, but seem destined to have to rework to make them even passable.

  

  E. J. Hughes
  • Time
  • Wish
  • Painting

• If I wasn't an actress, I'd never wear make up. I liked being ready in half an hour and arrive on the sets. Even for a no-makeup look, if one has a dark under-eye on a particular day, a little makeup is used. I had no scope for that as well.

  

  Rakul Preet Singh
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• There are three kinds of people in this world: 1) People who make lists, 2) People who don't make lists, and 3) People who carve tiny Nativity scenes out of pecan hulls. I'm sorry, there isn't really a third category; it's just that a workable list needs a minimum of three items, I feel.

  

  Mary Roach
  • People
  • World
  • Sorry

• It behooves everyone to move forward, think forward.

  

  Letitia Baldrige

• Magic came very easy for me when I was a kid. When I was 8 years old I started doing it, and by the time I was 12, I was already published in magic books.

  

  David Copperfield
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