Charles Dickens Quotes
You may be an undigested bit of beef, a blot of mustard, a crumb of cheese, a fragment of underdone potato. There's more of gravy than of grave about you, whatever you are!
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Americans think Soviets are so grim. I want them to see that they can smile.
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I was born in 1951 in Kalgoorlie, a prosperous mining town 370 miles east of Perth, Western Australia. Kalgoorlie was a gold rush town which sprang up in the desert after the Irishman Paddy Hannan struck gold there in 1892.
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Sri Lanka is an island off the coast of India. There's two ethnicities there; one the Sinhalese, which is the majority and the government, and the minority, who are the Tamils. That's where I'm from. And my lifetime sort of began there; I spent 10 years, and I was there during when the war started and fled as a refugee to England.
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I like the fact that glass ceilings are breaking all over.
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'Mr Selfridge' is a lot more accessible than shows like 'Downton.' Everyone knows the store, but not everyone knows the story. Having this store as the backdrop with all of society working under one roof, I think it really captures people's imaginations.
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I think that there are always goals for me to try to achieve, and I'm going to work toward those goals.
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I never wanted for anything. We went to Ireland for holidays every year. I was 14 when we first went to Italy. My mum was determined I was going to go to a good school. My mum was an absolute grafter. A real grafter. I got my work ethic from her.
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The deal is that women have entered the workforce, but they have not been relieved of the domestic responsibilities.
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Today you have this horrible alliance between the far left and the Islamists and they’re using the modern media tool to shut people like me out by smearing us.'
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What a child can do today with assistance, she will be able to do by herself tomorrow.
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If you're doing things that you don't want to be doing or you're working with people who aren't making you better and you're not learning, if things aren't challenging you, you could be wasting your time. You might be making some money, but you might not be improving as an actor.
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You do your best work if you do a job that makes you happy.
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The positions are probably at this point so enormous. Most people are up to their limit.
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All human evil comes from a single cause, man's inability to sit still in a room.
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I guess I'll go to my grave as the Dodger, but at least I've made my mark on show-business history.
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All i want...is mac and cheese.
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I have never been able to wear pajamas or creepy nightgowns; they disturb my sleep.
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I would say the world's in terrible shape, but I'm afraid the world would say, "Look who's talking".
