Charles Dickens Quotes
What an immense impression Paris made upon me. It is the most extraordinary place in the world!
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We lived in Atlanta for a couple of years, and had a lot of fun, but my best work happens when I isolate myself. It's all about turning inward.
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It seems to me that in literature, books have always been answers to other books.
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As every scuba diver knows, panic is your worst enemy: when it hits, your mind starts to thrash and you are likely to do something really stupid and self-destructive.
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I love CNN. I love the Cartoon Network. I mean, I thought these things up.
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I'll promise to go easier on drinking and to get to bed earlier, but not for you, fifty thousand dollars, or two-hundred and fifty thousand dollars will I give up women. They're too much fun.
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You should never do anything too much. If you only eat healthy food, that is too much. Success is balance - a banker with no time with his kids, he's not successful. If he doesn't have time to walk his kids to school, that is not success - that is a mistake.
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Kids are learning to play. That's why we're seeing an emergence. That's why we're seeing the Under-17s and Under-20s doing better in international football.
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You only lie to two people in your life, your girlfriend and the police.
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Statesmanship is harder than politics. Politics is the art of getting along with people, whereas statesmanship is the art of getting along with politicians.
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I was brought up in industrial south Lancashire, down the cobbled road from where LS Lowry (1887 - 1976) lived and painted.
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I think nowadays, women are breaking the borders or the boundaries and also trying to give a new interpretation in terms of impact you can have to the society.
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If you play a real character who's famous and still alive, it makes things easier if you have the luck to have a good relationship with them.
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I always wanted to be a writer. Maybe, had I been brought up in another generation, I might have just gone into writing rather than medicine - which is not to say that I didn't also have a great attraction towards the idea of being a healer. Fortunately, I've been able to combine the two in ways I could never possibly have imagined.
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We keep score in life because it matters. It counts. It matters. Too many people opt out and never discover their own abilities because they fear failure. They don't understand commitment.
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Many people in this world are still so identified with every thought that arises in their head. There is not the slightest space of awareness there.
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It's quite absurd to act against a smoke creature that is not there.
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The irony is that, coming from a white-collar British background, I tend to play blue-collar Americans!
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When I feel like my body is exhausted, I focus on making my fifth Olympic team so I can push through it.
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I quit my job in the bank when I was 19. I took a chance. I went to Milan to study opera and singing. My father really supported me economically.
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We are still in the position of waking up and having a choice. Do I make the world better today somehow, or do I not bother?
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I do a lot of reading of news so I can be smarter, and I do a lot of watching TV news so I can know why Americans aren't very smart. Then I can point out the hypocrisy of politicians or the media.
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They really need to know much more about where the food comes from - how to grow it and cook it, how to make consumer choices that are good for the environment and the local economy.
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What an immense impression Paris made upon me. It is the most extraordinary place in the world!
