Charles Dickens Quotes
At the great iron gate of the churchyard he stopped and looked in. He looked up at the high tower spectrally resisting the wind, and he looked round at the white tombstones, like enough to the dead in their winding-sheets, and he counted the nine tolls of the clock-bell.
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I cannot believe how much love people have shown me.
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Self-respect is the fruit of discipline; the sense of dignity grows with the ability to say no to oneself.
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Your abuse of our gowns amuses but does not discourage me; I shall take mine to be made up next week, and the more I look at it the better it pleases me. My cloak came on Tuesday, and, though I expected a good deal, the beauty of the lace astonished me. It is too handsome to be worn - almost too handsome to be looked at.
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The man smiled at him a sly smile. As if they knew a secret between them, these two. Something of age and youth and their claims and the justice of those claims. And of their claims upon them. The world past, the world to come. Their common transciencies. Above all a knowing deep in the bone that beauty and loss are one.
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(The Community Charge is) the flagship of the Thatcher fleet.
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I am a bit old-school.
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I dyed my hair blonde when I was 14. My mom was not happy. But I love being blonde.
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World War II was just as dirty and brutal as Vietnam, just as confusing.
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Visual effects have always been a part of this art form. And CG is simply a tool on the filmmaker's tool belt to tell a story, but when the end result is bad - maybe it's not the tool's fault.
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For me as a solo artist, I never want to be a nostalgia act.
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Fantastic, I am very happy to be the fastest 800 metres runner in the world.
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God endorses the confusion and even outrage that we feel when mysterious things happen.
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I never really had the classic struggle. I had faith.
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I don't mind that I'm fat. You still get the same money.
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When you get something off the ground, it's fantastic, and you feel really close to that group of people.
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If the scripts are not good, I'll tell somebody, 'This isn't good.'
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For me, Minneapolis will always have a special place in my heart.
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When I lived in China, there were no libraries. My mother bought books for me, and they were mostly the classics. I read 'Peter Pan,' 'The Secret Garden,' the 'Rosemary' books, and Kipling's 'Just So' Stories was one of my favorites. No, I didn't read historical fiction. It didn't exist where I was growing up in China.
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If you focus on literature through only one small element of it, like the more scientific element of linguistics, then where is the joy that brought us literature in the first place, which is to have a story?
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Merely repeating ideas means nothing. You must act—and think—accordingly.
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We were in the heart of the ghetto in Chicago during the Depression, and every block - it was probably the biggest black ghetto in America - every block also is the spawning ground practically for every gangster, black and white, in America too.
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At the great iron gate of the churchyard he stopped and looked in. He looked up at the high tower spectrally resisting the wind, and he looked round at the white tombstones, like enough to the dead in their winding-sheets, and he counted the nine tolls of the clock-bell.
