Charles Dickens Quotes
Out upon merry Christmas! What's Christmas time to you but a time for paying bills without money; a time for finding yourself a year older, but not an hour richer...? If I could work my will," said Scrooge indignantly, "every idiot who goes about with 'Merry Christmas' upon his lips should be boiled with his won pudding, and buried with a stake of holly through his heart. He should!
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I'm not comparing myself at all to him, but I like the idea that Ernest Hemingway always wrote about certain things he knew, he knew the ins and outs, back to fronts of what he was talking about. I love that as an inspiration for myself, to keep it true to what you know.
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The action carries a sense of incompleteness and frustration, but not of guilt. Victorious living does not mean perfect living in the sense of living without flaw, but it does mean adequate living, and that can be consistent with many mistakes.
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I've said it before, and I'll say it again. I've written 29 damn plays. Isn't that enough?
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What clients are really interested in is honesty, plus a baseline of competence.
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Do not tell somebody how to vote, just go up to them and tell them what Fahrenheit 9/11 meant to you. Fahrenheit will probably not win an Academy Award, but if you put it first on your list, it will become a nominee.
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The higher your station, the less your liberty.
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I am interested in a lot of the same things people are interested in. I am trying to raise kids without them self-destructing. I am trying to hold the marriage together, and I am trying to take off the same 10 pounds everyone else is.
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My first published work was when I was 19, in 'Playgirl.' It was an odd experience but exciting.
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Do the thing we fear, and death of fear is certain.
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I can only control what I can control.
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Without Khomeini, we would not be where we are. What a pity that, when pregnant with him, his mother did not choose to have an abortion.
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I'll be a wife and mother first, then First Lady.
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The groundhogs are pretty good at eluding. If somebody is trying to come after a ground hog, they go and they burrow.
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The way to tackle Muslimphobia is to tackle prejudice against Muslims. What it is not is to pretend that Islamist extremism does not exist.
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I think vestigially there's a synesthete in me, but not like a real one who immediately knows what colour Wednesday is.
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It is fascinating to watch legislators turn away from their usual corporate grips when they hear the growing thunder of the people.
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I used to a lot. I used to go dancing.
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I travel like a gypsy, and I didn't know how I could perform and be a mother.
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I am sure you will agree that all children deserve time, attention, and love from the adults in their lives. These basic qualities are so much more valuable than the always-changing material and social concerns that can seem so important to young people.
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You don't start shooting rockets at Israel and expect that we'll just sit back supinely and die.
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I doubt I called him illegitimate, sir. I wouldn't use that sort of word. I probably called him a bastard.
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Photography is not about the thing photographed. It is about how that thing looks photographed.
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Out upon merry Christmas! What's Christmas time to you but a time for paying bills without money; a time for finding yourself a year older, but not an hour richer...? If I could work my will," said Scrooge indignantly, "every idiot who goes about with 'Merry Christmas' upon his lips should be boiled with his won pudding, and buried with a stake of holly through his heart. He should!
