Charles Dickens Quotes
You might, from your appearance, be the wife of Lucifer,” said Miss Pross, in her breathing. “Nevertheless, you shall not get the better of me. I am an Englishwoman.
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Comic-Con is really cool. It's different. I like to people-watch. I like to see the costumes.
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I like to keep a bottle of stimulant handy in case I see a snake, which I also keep handy.
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A created thing is never invented and it is never true: it is always and ever itself.
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Pain reaches the heart with electrical speed, but truth moves to the heart as slowly as a glacier.
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The future of the airlines lay in hauling people, not in hauling mail for the government.
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In Arthurian battle the trick for us was to figure out how to give it the scale that the movie deserved and fitted in a financial box that was necessary. We made the battle quite a bit bigger than originally intended, just because we felt that being part of the opening sequence of the movie we really needed to grab the audience's attention.
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Joan Crawford is doubtless the best example of the flapper, the girl you see in smart night clubs, gowned to the apex of sophistication, toying iced glasses with a remote, faintly bitter expression, dancing deliciously, laughing a great deal, with wide, hurt eyes. Young things with a talent for living.
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Traveling has a major impact on what I do, cause all over the world I'm meeting all kinds of people. And relationships is the second major impact that I have. I just enjoy the variety that the world has to offer.
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Helplessness is the real secret and the impelling power of prayer.
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I refuse to have a battle of wits with an unarmed man.
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Golf is played with a number of striking implements more intricate in shape than those used in any form of recreation except dentistry.
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Any business that does not innovate will fail over time.
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I work in the human rights field and there are serious conflicts between certain interpretations of Islamic law and human rights. That's something which I don't make any bones about at all, it's something which I think is very important for everyone to address, including the Muslim community, and many Muslims are addressing that issue.
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It seems to me that since the Middle Ages (it's not a Reformation thing), all that stuff about Jews and Gentiles coming together in Christ was just screened out.
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The guitar's still around me. I slip it off and put it down. I want to feel him. To feel his breath on my neck. The warmth of his skin. To feel something other than sadness. Hold me, I tell him silently. Hold me here. To this place. This life. Make me want you. Want this. Want something. Please
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First appearance deceives many.
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If the path has been laid down, why the successive appearance of different teachers? Why would anyone reinvent the wheel, if everything were as cosy and sequential as primitive longing so easily convinces us?
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Privacy - like eating and breathing - is one of life's basic requirements.
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One of the reasons I wrote 'The Fall' is that climbing's more than a sport, it's a way of life. When you're in it, it's all you think about.
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Facts are irrelevant. What matters is what the consumer believes.
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You might, from your appearance, be the wife of Lucifer,” said Miss Pross, in her breathing. “Nevertheless, you shall not get the better of me. I am an Englishwoman.
