Charles Dickens Quotes

The wine-shops breed, in physical atmosphere of malaria and a moral pestilence of envy and vengeance, the men of crime and revolution.

Charles Dickens

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• Crime
• Atmosphere
• Malaria

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• My last album as J. Tillman, 'Singing Ax,' that was really a premeditated death rattle of the aesthetic precedent I had set. I realized I wasn't creating spontaneously; I was enforcing all these parameters. I was too self-loathing or something, and there was this obvious dissonance between my conversational voice and creative voice.

  

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• It's hard to find a play that's right for me to do. Rather than waiting around for the right script to come along, I decided to write one myself.

  

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• The thing about the performance part... starting with improv and standup, you're starting with yourself as the character, and I don't feel as much like, 'Oh, I'm a vessel for -' I feel like someone who calls themselves an actor is a vessel.

  

  Ilana Glazer
  • Character
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• In 2010, I sold my car, a Toyota Majester, for just a lakh-and-a-half to be able to feed my horses. It continues to be like a hole, where I put all my money.

  

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• I'd rather play a tune on a horn, but I've always felt that I didn't want to train myself. Because when you get a train, you've got to have an engine and a caboose. I think it's better to train the caboose. You train yourself, you strain yourself.

  

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• I didn't record any additional dialogue for this CD, they are excerpts pulled from existing episodes.

  

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  • Record
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• I've found that you don't need to wear a necktie if you can hit.

  

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  • You
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• I've been told by journalists that Facebook is upset anytime we're mentioned.

  

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  • Been
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• I approach 'Fast & Furious 6' the same way I would approach a Sidney Lumet film. Getting into character's getting into character.

  

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  • Character
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• I think there are definitely some people that would say I'm crazy.

  

  J. J. Watt
  • People
  • Think
  • Crazy

• Most Americans are fiscally conservative and socially liberal. I'm advocating a balanced budget. But along with that, look, there should be gay marriage equality. A woman should have the right to choose. Let's not build a fence across the border.

  

  Gary Johnson
  • Marriage
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• I am afraid of blood, but for some reason often I put blood in my photos... I don't know why.

  

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• I like performing in front of big crowds.

  

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• War is a tragedy. It's not pretty, and in my opinion, there are no winners. Everybody's a victim, from the one who's suffering pain to the person inflicting it.

  

  Edgar Ramirez
  • War
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• Poor privileged white men. Their stranglehold on power is slowly being loosened.

  

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  • Men
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• Smoking is one of the leading causes of statistics.

  

  Fletcher Knebel
  • Smoking
  • Statistics
  • Leading

• My mother was religious; she was knowledgeable about mythology and scriptures; she could tell the metaphysical nuances and make the story come to life with their deeper significance. The current generation is missing out on this.

  

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• 'True Detective' did change my career.

  

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  • True
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• I only go to yoga to drink wine, so I'm good. I just throw the calories right back in.

  

  Kaley Cuoco
  • Good
  • Wine
  • Yoga

• You see crime and you see all sharia things happening, unfortunately all over Europe, because of (a) the mass immigration, but (b) also because of we politicians are not able to deal with it.

  

  Geert Wilders
  • Immigration
  • Crime
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• What have I done, she thought, dazed by wine, and what is this gold circle, this glittering zero I’ve stuck my finger in.

  

  Elena Ferrante
  • Wine
  • Stuck
  • Circle

• The wine-shops breed, in physical atmosphere of malaria and a moral pestilence of envy and vengeance, the men of crime and revolution.

  

  Charles Dickens
  • Wine
  • Crime
  • Atmosphere