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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I have heard of many tragic cases of walking, talking, normal children who wound up with profound mental disorders after vaccines.
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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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My dad once told me, he was like, 'The only time you should lie is when someone's holding a gun to your head and says 'Okay, lie or I'm going to shoot you.' And that really stuck with me.
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Knowing Myrnin, there could be anything inside, from a body he'd forgotten about to his dirty laundry.
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When you make an observation, you have an obligation.
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If it was easy, everyone would do it rather than going around telling you their ideas and saying how they could be a writer if they had the time.
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I fancy mankind may come, in time, to write all aphoristically.
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I live on broken wittles - and I sleep on the coals.
