Charles Dickens Quotes
"It wasn't the wine," murmured Mr. Snodgrass, in a broken voice. "It was the salmon."
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My stories deal with multicultural situations as well as multigenerational settings.
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I like being part of a big company's executive team. It's fun to stretch other parts of my brain, considering questions like, 'How should we think of acquisitions?' I get to be privy to things that would never come up at a small company.
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On a personal basis, when I decided to become a writer, about the last reason I did it was because I thought I'd meet interesting people and make new friends. But that has turned out to be the very best part.
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Do we not realize that self respect comes with self reliance?
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The Thing of the idols, the green, sticky spawn of the stars, had awaked to claim his own. The stars were right again, and what an age-old cult had failed to do by design, a band of innocent sailors had done by accident. After vigintillions of years great Cthulhu was loose again, and ravening for delight.
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When my mother died, my father's early widowhood gave him social cachet he would not have had if they had divorced. He was a bigger catch for the sorrow attached.
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I think that even though some of the things on 'Humans of New York' are kind of very personal and very revealing, I think the discomfort with sharing that tends to be overwritten by the appreciation of being able to distill the experience of your life into a story and share it with other people.
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I like feeling out of my depth.
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Trade may raise GDP. But it does make some people worse off.
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I'm lucky that it's about fashion and perfume and cosmetics. If my father had owned a tire company, I don't know what I would have done.
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We're trying to get the world to see it's not always about the outside, it's about the inside.
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All of us, we deserve to survive.
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I never wanted to become an actor. I always wanted to be a farmer and dreamt of owning half an acre of agriculture land.
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It is always nice to reflect on how one started.
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The thing is, I love a great death scene - no good actor doesn't. Sorry, any actor, I should say.
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One thing you learn: if you want to reveal yourself, you also have to know where to stop.
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It is better to have a fair intellect that is well used than a powerful one that is idle.
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Terrorism and religious extremism are huge challenges. They go hand in glove.
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I have seen salmon swimming upstream to spawn even with their eyes pecked out. Even as they are dying, as their flesh is falling away from their spines, I have seen salmon fighting to protect their nests. I have seen them push up creeks so small that they rammed themselves across the gravel. I have seen them swim upstream with huge chunks bitten out of their bodies by bears. Salmon are incredibly driven to spawn. They will not give up. This gives me hope.
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There is always a bit of pressure to do a good album - to do good work, period. I really put a lot of pressure on myself, more so than other people. But I try not to let that overwhelm me to the point where I can't even do good work. I just put it aside and do the best that I know that I can.
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Beloved is man, for he was created in the image of God.
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Love is an incurable malady like those pathetic states in which rheumatism affords the sufferer a brief respite only to be replaced by epileptiform headaches.
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"It wasn't the wine," murmured Mr. Snodgrass, in a broken voice. "It was the salmon."
