David Copperfield Quotes
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People want to see more diversity. That's why you have the Kevin Hart making $17 million dollars on a holiday weekend.
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Younger audiences are into me because I did 'Stuart Little,' and that movie was a very big deal for kids. And in 'Angels in the Outfield,' a generation of kids learned about magic and angels. And then, of course, there are these two blond girls named Mary-Kate and Ashley Olsen, and I played their nanny on their TV show.
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I don't think I'd want a revival. I'm not doing a tribute to myself.
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We legitimately walked into 'Anthem' head-on, not paying enough attention to internal band tension.
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He who awaits much can expect little.
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My hair and my accent are sort of my main assets.
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Like most Russians, I am very superstitious, and if I don't get married, I don't get divorced.
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That was a huge part of my training, doing improv in Chicago.
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Are your people uncomfortable during meetings and tired at the end? If not, they're probably not mixing it up enough and getting to the bottom of important issues.
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To get away from poverty, you need several things at the same time: school, health, and infrastructure - those are the public investments. And on the other side, you need market opportunities, information, employment, and human rights.
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I think the one that's going to be the hardest to make into a film is the one that's probably going to be made into a film, which is 'The Art of Racing in the Rain.' I mean, it's narrated by a dog. How do you do that? But hopefully we'll get to see.
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Luxury is a state of mind.
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I draw pleasure in governance, in doing new things and bringing people together. That pleasure is all I need from life.
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I started feeling secure in every way once I began to accept myself the way I was. Whether that was emotional, financial or professional security, all of it came and embraced me because I embraced myself.
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The drums tell me everything. Everything else registers a millisecond later.
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You are right, but the weakness does not come from the millions of Muslims in the world. They do not mind being radical, they have no fear to speak out and to protest and to jihad.
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There's so many great designers. I'm a little bit of a vintage junkie when it comes to going out. I like to get unique pieces that you won't see everyone wearing, but at the same time I don't like to break the bank. I like to find great vintage pieces that you can hold on to for a long time.
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In 'A Room of One's Own', Virginia Woolf satirically describes her perplexity at the bulging card catalog of the British Museum: why, she asks, are there so many books written by men about women but none by women about men? The answer to her question is that from the beginning of time men have been struggling with the threat of woman's dominance.
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Hegel remarks somewhere that all great world-historic facts and personages appear, so to speak, twice. He forgot to add: the first time as tragedy, the second time as farce.
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I don't want to sound too carried away, but from what I've seen, 'Bingo Long' is going to be a big one. A classic.
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I came to America at the age of 17 as an exchange student, and a year later, I was a student at Dartmouth. I would say that the rather weak foundation of my Christianity was effectively battered at Dartmouth. I've had mostly a secular career. But I became intellectually interested in Christianity again in my mid-30s.
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Pigs may not be as cuddly as kittens or puppies, but they suffer just as much.
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All of us need to self-promote. We cannot sit back and wait for our gallery or rep to do it all.
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Let sleeping dogs lie - who wants to rouse 'em?
