Charles Dickens Quotes
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The Siren waits thee, singing song for song.
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Awards for arts, where you make comparisons, don't make much sense.
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You can't choose up sides on a round world.
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My mom says that when I was a little kid, I always used to say I wanted to be an actor, but I don't remember that.
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Often I pretended to a cameraman to know less than I did. That way I got more cooperation.
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You need tremendous spirituality to stop yourself falling into the abyss.
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I stuff animals I find; I do roadkill. They're strangely fun to have. They're like easy-to-control pets.
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Because my profession is the body, it is a relaxation for me to get out of physicality and concentrate on more mental things.
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When I was young, I didn't want to do traditional painting and calligraphy. I deliberately wanted to separate from my father so I could feel I existed myself.
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I believe that the will of the people is resolved by a strong leadership. Even in a democratic society, events depend on a strong leadership with a strong power of persuasion, and not on the opinion of the masses.
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Using the power you derive from the discovery of the truth about racism in South Africa, you will help us to remake our part of the world into a corner of the globe on which all - of which all of humanity can be proud.
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It's very easy to be judgmental until you know someone's truth.
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Raising a small child as a woman while travelling 10 months out of the year would, I believe, be something I would not be able or even want to do, although with the amazing example of Leila, I am no longer so sure.
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Only free people have an incentive to be virtuous. Only people who bear the consequences of their own acts will care about those consequences and try to learn from their mistakes.
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Van Gogh never made a penny in his entire lifetime. He painted because it was his soul, his excitement. It was what aligned him with his Source of being. It's the same with me and writing.
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People book me because of the songs I write, not because of the sets that I play, per se... I'm sure I'm going to be moving to a laptop really soon, but I was one of the last guys to let the vinyl go. I was crying. In my room, I still have thousands of records. I still pull them out and play them all the time.
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In Edna, I created a satiric portrait of my hometown of Melbourne, a large provincial English city paradoxically in far Southeast Asia. She's a theatrical figure, related to vaudeville in some respects. She inhabits a world in which there are comparatively few female exponents of comedy.
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I'm not good at a lot of things. I am not good at keeping my room clean. I am not good at eating healthy. I am not good at sports anymore. I used to be! Not so much anymore.
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perpetuity in a home is a blanket for the cold years that come with age.
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If you work out 20 minutes a day in some way, you're going to see changes.
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You spend so much to buy these media net stories or full page ads to build perception... you can rather save this money and put it in the making or marketing of the film.
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Be careful, lest in casting out your demon you exorcise the best thing in you.
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I hit a home run in my first game, and they told me to go into the stands and pass my cap around. I made six dollars in nickels, dimes, and quarters.
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Sudden shifts and changes are no bad preparation for political life.
