Charles Dickens Quotes
Old Mr. Rarx was not a pleasant man to look at, nor yet to talk to, or to be with, for no one could help seeing that he was a sordid and selfish character, and that he had warped further and further out of the straight with time.
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Money brings a lot of responsibility as to what you're going to do with it, and I've given quite a bit of thought to that.
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I love engaging in conversation with other moms because we can relate to one another, and we swap valuable insight and information.
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Many have said of Alchemy, that it is for the making of gold and silver. For me such is not the aim, but to consider only what virtue and power may lie in medicines.
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The only difference between a good writer who publishes a book and a good writer who doesn't is that the writer who publishes actually finished her book.
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Being physical and doing my own stunts - it is fun to do these kind of films once in a while, especially before you get too old.
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If you take anything I say with any seriousness whatsoever, go study Yang style tai chi. It will make you live longer.
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The promotion of family continuity and stability is a legitimate state interest.
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Life is like an analogy.
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Some people think that if their opponent plays a beautiful game, it's okay to lose. I don't. You have to be merciless.
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I'm trying to write a TV show. Ideally it would be just a reality-TV show, getting the guy who played Eddie Winslow and Kirk Cameron to live in a house. The Jehovah's Witnesses would come to the house a lot or something like that. I kind of like the idea of Scientologists and Mormons and Jehovah's Witnesses trying to convert Kirk Cameron.
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I think every movie is its own little world, and a director certainly sets the tone.
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If you're CEO of a company, you have to be a public person. You're speaking to the press, you're speaking to investors, you're speaking to employees, you're the public face of the company and so kind of naturally you become more extroverted, more outwards facing.
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In a strange way, I'm way more comfortable onstage than anywhere else.
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I have the rare privilege of talking to my dad every night at 10 p.m. and hearing about what he did that day.
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I came to America to make it my home, and I did.
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I could have taken the easy life and just done classical, but I felt very strongly about the album, my first pop album, the first time that I'd fused so many influences. I was very proud when it was in the charts in 25 countries at once.
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I've had a few ditty hits.
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If we do everything right, the best we can do is live out our potential with as little age-related disease and disability as possible.
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I see most of my movies at festivals.
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Whether writing fiction or nonfiction, I've never had the sense I was 'making up' a character. It feels more like watching people reveal themselves, ever more deeply, more intimately.
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Now that I have a thousand albums in my car all the time, I listen to more music. I was too lazy; I always had the same five discs in there. I'd never think to change it.
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Have you noticed that only death arouses our emotions? How we love thee friends who have just passed away, right? How we admire those master who no longer speak, their mouths full of dirt. We them we are not obligated.
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I've got nothing to complain about. I have to enjoy and be grateful. Lots of people would like to be in my shoes.
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Old Mr. Rarx was not a pleasant man to look at, nor yet to talk to, or to be with, for no one could help seeing that he was a sordid and selfish character, and that he had warped further and further out of the straight with time.
