Charles Dickens Quotes
Good never come of such evil, a happier end was not in nature to so unhappy a beginning.
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I always suggest that when you're going through cancer to find something in your day that makes you feel centered and that makes you feel good.
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A 90-minute time frame is not long enough to tell a good female story, and that's why long-format television has become so great for female storytelling and for female performers and directors and writers.
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One of my main weaknesses is a good movie. I'll just bawl my eyes out.
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I'm now happily remarried to a good cook, which encourages me to be lazy. I like to think that I'm a new man, but perhaps I'm not. I offset it by doing the ironing, though. She has a small farm in the New Forest with a herd of cattle, so she serves up a steak and kidney pie made with her own beef.
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It's always good news when you're closer to the truth.
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My parents had a great marriage. Interestingly, it made it harder for me in relationships because I knew what a good relationship looked like.
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About 10 years ago, I took some vocal lessons. I'll bet that helped. I got a tape of exercises that the girl gave me, which I don't do anymore, but they were good. And I don't smoke.
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I played a character in 'Ransom' who was as evil as they come.
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The physical ego, the active consciousness in man, should uplift its body-identified self into unity with the soul, its true nature; it should not allow itself to remain mired in the lowly delusive strata of the senses and material entanglement.
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'Once Upon a Time', 'Mirror Mirror' - those shows and films focus on women and their conflict with one another. What the heck is going on in contemporary fairy tales? Women are not dominating the world; they are not evil.
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He who stops being better stops being good.
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I'm a writer who simply can't know what I'm writing about until the writing lets me discover it. In a sense, my writing process embraces the gapped nature of my memory process, leaping across spaces that represent all I've lost and establishing fresh patterns within all that remains.
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Am I good enough to be No. 1? Sure, but who's gonna break Tiger's legs? I want to be the best. Can I? Oh, believe me, I will be trying. Hard. You grow up in Colombia, and everything is limited. Then, I come here, and you have everything. A trainer, nutritionist, coach. I'm very lucky. Many doors open, and I have a path to take.
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Adopt the pace of nature: her secret is patience.
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The organization of the government itself is something which we ought to examine in a more self-conscious way - the Federal Reserve and the Treasury and the Securities and Exchange Commission. The mission that each of them has is mainly economic but should be informed by good organizational practices.
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Affectation is a very good word when someone does not wish to confess to what he would none the less like to believe of himself.
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I would go to sketch groups and draw. I really enjoyed the subject matter, but I wasn't good at it.
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Only that thing is free which exists by the necessities of its own nature, and is determined in its actions by itself alone.
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I don't think I was a good comedian.
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I haven't ever had any ambition in my life. I just drift from day to day with a stupid grin on my face.
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The most difficult subjects can be explained to the most slow-witted man if he has not formed any idea of them already; but the simplest thing cannot be made clear to the most intelligent man if he is firmly persuaded that he knows already, without a shadow of doubt, what is laid before him.
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I have to believe everything I write is brand new and I'm writing in this way about these people in a completely new situation for the very first time.
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I got into politics a little bit by chance, as a person from the first generation of the Solidarity movement.
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Good never come of such evil, a happier end was not in nature to so unhappy a beginning.
