Charles Dickens Quotes

Scattered wits take a long time in picking up.

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• I worked with Lukas Haas a long time ago, when he was younger, and he was wonderful.

  

  Campbell Scott
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• I had to let my ego go a long time ago.

  

  Sally Field
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• There have been periods of my career that I haven't worked for a really long time, like seven or eight months.

  

  Parker Posey
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• Stories in which the destruction of society occurs are explorations of social fears and issues that filmmakers, novelists, playwrights, painters have been examining for a long time.

  

  J. J. Abrams
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  • Society

• But I honestly don't read critics. My dad reads absolutely everything ever written about me. He calls me up to read ecstatic reviews, but I always insist that I can't hear them. If you give value to the good reviews, you have to give value to the criticism.

  

  Fiona Apple
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• Yes, but I - you know, it's been such a long time, I'm sure that I've got cousins and uncles that I've never met before, you know, that I've left behind.

  

  Rafael Palmeiro
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  • Know

• I stopped singing for a long time because it just wasn't something I was very passionate about.

  

  BeBe Winans
  • Time
  • Long
  • Singing

• I have always been very into pagan hairstyles. If I were alive a long time ago, I would probably have been burned at the stake.

  

  Hailey Gates
  • Time
  • Long
  • Long Time

• I've always dreamed of becoming a mother. I thought I would get married and do it all the traditional way, but life kept going on, my career kept me busy - and I had not stopped to become a mommy.

  

  Kym Whitley
  • Life
  • Mother
  • Career

• Whistling to keep myself from being afraid.

  

  John Dryden

• You won't see us at one of these for many, many years. We won't see you for a long time. I mean it. It's going to be years before we have the chance to say this again.

  

  Chris Martin Coldplay
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  • Years

• There's other things I'd like to do. I probably won't tour for a very, very long time. It's something that you feel inside and that's the way I've been looking at everything.

  

  Janet Jackson
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  • Way

• I spent a long time learning how to construct clothes, which is important to do before you can deconstruct them.

  

  Alexander McQueen
  • Time
  • Long
  • Important

• You're the strangest person I ever met, she said & I said you too & we decided we'd know each other a long time.

  

  Brian Andreas
  • Person
  • Long Time

• Only the believers pick up the prizes in life.

  

  Norman Vincent Peale
  • Life
  • Believers
  • Pickup

• I could have knocked him out in the 3rd round but I wanted to do it slowly, So he would remember this night for a long time.

  

  Mike Tyson
  • Remember
  • Long Time
  • Knocked

• When someone isn't seen for a long time, Well, folk soon begin to imagine the worst.

  

  Euripides
  • Imagine
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  • Folk

• When you stare into an abyss for a long time, the abyss also stares into you.

  

  Friedrich Nietzsche
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  • Abyss
  • Stare

• How do you pick up the threads of an old life? How do you go on, when in your heart, you begin to understand, there is no going back? There are some things that time cannot mend. Some hurts that go too deep...that have taken hold.

  

  J. R. R. Tolkien
  • Understand
  • Pickup
  • Old Life

• But a knife ain't just a thing, is it? It's a choice, it's something you do. A knife says yes or no, cut or not, die or don't. A knife takes a decision out of your hand and puts it in the world and it never goes back again.

  

  Patrick Ness
  • World
  • Die
  • Hand

• As you might imagine, if you're a teenager having a couple of people with microphones and guns always following you around, that could grate on them. But you know, they've handled it with grace and I give Michelle [Obama] most of the credit for how well they've done, but I also just think they are graceful, good young, young women.

  

  Barack Obama
  • People
  • Good
  • Thinking

• When you're happy you don't always have to be laughing, and when you're sad you don't have to be crying; sometimes it's the opposite. You laugh when you're the most upset.

  

  Freddie Highmore
  • Sometimes
  • Laughing
  • Opposites

• Never abandon your vision. Keep reaching to further your dreams.

  

  Benjamin Banneker
  • Dream
  • Vision
  • Abandon

• Scattered wits take a long time in picking up.

  

  Charles Dickens
  • Long Time
  • Pickup
  • Scattered