David Copperfield Quotes
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The world is too violent right now.
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There is so much to do in my house, in every little corner. It's just like anybody, it's like one step at a time. I try to decorate one space and a pipe breaks or whatever - you know how it is.
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Death is always a reality, and life is incredibly short.
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I was a kid who had asthma and bifocals and wore sweater vests.
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Cartooning was a good fit for me. And yet now, years later, I almost never think about it.
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Being on Broadway and getting a Tony nomination - this has been an incredible ride, from rather humble beginnings.
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Trials by the adversarial contest must in time go the way of the ancient trial by battle and blood.
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The essence of architecture is form and space, and light is the essential element to the key to architectural design, probably more important than anything. Technology and materials are secondary.
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I was very fortunate in my gene mix. The gambling instincts I inherited from my father were matched by my mother's gift for analysis.
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After the second and final time that I got hugely fat in my life and when I lost that weight six or seven years ago, I pretty much decided that I was going to stay in decent shape for the rest of my life.
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People seldom refuse help, if one offers it in the right way.
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Acting was all I ever really wanted to do.
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Take time to deliberate, but when the time for action has arrived, stop thinking and go in.
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American business at this point is really about developing an idea, making it profitable, selling it while it's profitable and then getting out or diversifying. It's just about sucking everything up.
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I want to be the first person to laugh at myself. It makes other people feel at ease - we're all on an even playing field.
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It is dangerous for mortal beauty, or terrestrial virtue, to be examined by too strong a light. The torch of Truth shows much that we cannot, and all that we would not, see.
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I urge researchers to make use of the opportunities that are available to them and to do all they can to fulfill the promise that stem cell research offers.
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I want kids. I want a soccer team, and I want a husband.
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A lot of times I would go into a room and audition for whatever sitcom it was and they would expect me to do sort of what my dad was doing and I am not him so they would be disappointed and I would feel nervous and not know exactly how to do it.
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I feel it's OK if not everybody agrees with me or likes me. The weird thing was it turned into people thinking I said we deserved it. I didn't say that - but Americans do need to look at their behavior in the world. It's easy to say, 'That was awful,' and hard to ask, 'Is there a way I can amend?'
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You have to make peace with life.
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Your victory is right around the corner. Never give up.
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If you're a lay person listening to jazz, you don't necessarily understand everything that's happening within the form. But you get the sense of it, the feel of it, because you're getting to hear something that develops right in front of your face.
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Never stop listening to your audience.
