Charles Dickens Quotes
Train up a fig tree in the way it should go, and when you are old sit under the shade of it.

Quotes to Explore
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I write in a small office at home.
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I made an album of healing music called 'Grace and Gratitude' that came from my soul.
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I'm not a great fiction reader. I love history. I love history and philosophy.
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It's really important to me that the public have confidence in their criminal justice system. We don't operate very well if the public doesn't trust us.
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I don't know what's going to happen in life, so I don't think it's fair that I know what's going to happen in 'Homeland.'
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Nobody asked how you looked, just what you shot.
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The president is just the coach of a football team. You need the right support, the right stadium, the right players, the right staff. An excellent coach is not going to win games.
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I am trying to do my own thing, but there will always be comparisons, even if I don't agree with them.
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Three thousand people died at ground zero. Their families are entitled to a little bit of respect, to respect the memory of those poor people that died there. And how about the families of all those soldiers that died in the two ensuing wars? Aren't they entitled to a little bit of respect - the kids, the wives, the parents?
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When I wrote the eight fairy tales that appear in 'Horse, Flower, Bird' I was working toward a completely new form of artistic expression, trying to create a new kind of tale that also felt vintage: innocent and childlike, but haunted. I tried to write a picture-less picture book.
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Every parent wants to see their kids excel.
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I've always lived a life where people have said, 'Look at him. Who does he think he is?' And who I think I am is someone living life to the brim.
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I'm a writer more than I am a talker.
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I want to be a female artist who is honest. I want to encourage other girls to be honest with who they are and not try to be picture perfect, because it's a woman's imperfections that make her perfect anyway.
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I'll always find the things that make a role complicated!
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The Queen's wedding dress in 1947, there was some embroidery on the train which was definitely there to illustrate new dawn/post-war optimism, that sort of thing.
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One of the things that I was always, and still am, is quite resourceful.
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If names be not correct, language is not in accordance with the truth of things.
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Train our children to love God.
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Chess is like body-building. If you train every day, you stay in top shape. It is the same with your brain - chess is a matter of daily training.
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I actually don't mind it. It's the ultimate kind of pop art statement in a way, if you think about it.
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Train up a fig tree in the way it should go, and when you are old sit under the shade of it.