David Copperfield Quotes
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I can work in films as long as the story doesn't have a realistic nature. If I'm working with an allegory, a fantasy, it can be developed in synthetic terms.
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The reason I did the book about holidays is that you're a different person on holiday. You're sleeping somewhere unfamiliar, knocking about with people you've never met and for 10 days you're someone else. You're out of your comfortable zone.
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I really honestly can't see myself as a lawyer. It's pretty much safe to say I'll never become one.
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I know what I look like - a weird, sad clown puppet. I'm fine with that.
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I hope that people will see that we don't have to sit by the sidelines and watch as the two major parties limit their choices to slightly different flavors of the status quo. It is, in fact, possible to join the fray, stand up for principles and offer a real alternative.
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I want to be frozen on the hope that they'll find whatever I died of and bring me back.
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Americans are not saving enough for retirement.
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I don't think we should do anything that should make the people hate the American people more.
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I am really happy to see the number of entrepreneurs in India - not only because of the ideas they have but also because of the passion at which their ideas are put across.
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On what can we now place our hopes of solving the many riddles which still exist as to the origin and composition of cosmic rays? It must be emphasized here above all that to attain really decisive progress greater funds must be made available.
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The benefits of education and of useful knowledge, generally diffused through a community, are essential to the preservation of a free government.
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This Earth is our only home. Together, we must protect and cherish it.
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There are no heroes in most of my stories. I look at our society with a critical eye and find nothing extraordinary in the people I see.
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These people are fascinated by me, but I haven't done anything.
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I tend to believe that religious dogma is a consequence of evolution.
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Do not bury our glorious orthodoxy in the treacherous pit of a spurious conservatism.
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A video taped stage performance is just - you know, it's never gonna be the same as it is if you're sitting there live in the theatre.
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I reveled in the most basic rules and techniques that are the foundation of professional cooking. For example, it is essential to use a sharp knife: the sharper the knife, the more fluid and precise your work and the less likely you are to get hurt. Dull knives are a danger - they slip far more often.
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The true delight is in the finding out rather than in the knowing.
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What makes 'American Pie' so unusual is that it isn't a relic from the counterculture but a talisman, which, like a sacred river, keeps bringing joy to listeners everywhere. When 'American Pie' suddenly is played on a jukebox or radio, it's almost impossible not to sing along.
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I've been at this a long time, but commercials are what hit for me. Casting directors watch those commercials.
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Money is catching up to the technological trends transforming all aspects of society and business; entertainment, insurance, health-care, gaming, leisure, retail - all commercial and social verticals are going digital - including money itself.
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It takes a real soldier to stay in the music industry and live off the things that have been put before me and be able to survive all this time because it has not been easy.
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I live on broken wittles - and I sleep on the coals.
