Charles Dickens Quotes
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Read some good, heavy, serious books just for discipline: Take yourself in hand and master yourself.
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I want to direct what I feel is interesting - not what is supposed to be my zone.
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Every happening, great and small, is a parable whereby God speaks to us, and the art of life is to get the message.
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I don't know how people recognize me.
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At the lowest cognitive level, they are processes of experiencing, or, to speak more generally, processes of intuiting that grasp the object in the original.
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Writing is only the frosting on my cake. I'm whole without it.
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I've always been extremely physically active.
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I consider science fiction and fantasy my genre. And I've noticed over the years that there doesn't tend to be a lot of lighthearted, comedic stuff.
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Nothing is funnier than confidently doing the wrong thing.
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The only danger about websites, you know, is people who remember something you did or said thirty or forty years ago, and bring it up against you, so you're going for a job and you don't get it.
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That is not enough. Sport has been great for me, a great learning place that if you want to achieve you can, even if you are from the poorest part of Africa.
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The successful man will profit from his mistakes and try again in a different way.
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Orthodox Christianity, by playing upon the emotions of man, is able to accomplish wonders toward keeping him in order and relieving his mind. It can frighten or cajole him away from evil more effectively than could reason.
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Joe Torre would tell you to make sure you can hit the ball on the outside part of the plate.
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I was raised on NBC television.
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I mean, if you're proud of what you've done when you've served in the military, well then we call that bragging. And if you are unhappy about what happened, we call that complaining. And so what are you going to do?
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Cause and effect are two sides of one fact.
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I guess one that wouldn't be obvious is - well, maybe it's super obvious, I can't tell - 'I Love Lucy' is my favorite show, going back to when I was 4. I've watched every episode I don't know how many times. It was something to watch women being funny when I was young.
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There lay certitude; there, in the daily round. All the rest hung on mere threads and trivial contingencies; you couldn't waste your time on it. The thing was to do your job as it should be done.
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I do not hold God ransom to my success; whatever is his will is my way. I stand by moments; I do not stand by time.
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I used to be naive. I didn't realize the value of being a whole performer... People start to care about you when they know more about you and see different aspects of your personality.
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You let go of the past, and stop bringing the past into the present and replaying it into the future. You release guilt, shame, and you can create an entirely new pattern for yourself.
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Your circumstance is entirely hypothetical, and I'm quite clear it won't arise.
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Procrastination is the thief of time, collar him.
