Charles Dickens Quotes
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I'm not comparing myself at all to him, but I like the idea that Ernest Hemingway always wrote about certain things he knew, he knew the ins and outs, back to fronts of what he was talking about. I love that as an inspiration for myself, to keep it true to what you know.
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We're seeing a crazy appetite for people to acquire and invest in British businesses.
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I've never met a woman who thinks they've got a good enough figure - however perfect they look - which is sad, because no one else can see these perceived flaws; they're entirely internal.
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Could today's construction worker married to a clerical worker guarantee four children a college education and buy a house? That's what we're fighting about.
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Comedians do movies and TV so that when they tour, they sell out. That's the goal: To get popular enough so the place is packed.
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The conception that, instead of this, contemporary society is at or near a turning point is very prominent in the views of a school of social scientists who, though they are still comparatively few, are getting more and more of a hearing.
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No one wants to work with a difficult star. I want to be the nice guy.
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My number one job at the end of the day is to entertain.
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You just can't bifurcate bitcoin currency from the technology. Bitcoin will always need a monetary base.
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My brother is really, really slow.
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Our plan is what the Scottish government had with the U.K. It's an agreement to consult over the independence of Catalonia. And we will not abandon this plan until the end.
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I talk to student-athletes. I try to get them to remember that they're not just athletes, but student-athletes. You need to get an education, keep your hands clean and try to represent the university.
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People are more comfortable learning about wine because now they can just Google, you know, 'Soave,' and say, 'Oh, O.K., cool.'
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Observing humans and observing oneself yields a clear-minded starting point for literature.
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The great act of faith is when a man decides he is not God.
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Nobody should be allowed to tinker with democracy. We will not discontinue the good works of the past government.
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Nothing I ever did I expected to do. It just kind of happened.
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Fortunately, I have money that's from my life's work. But it's money that I share and used greatly to fight poverty in my country.
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It is not hard to feel like an outsider. I think we have all felt like that at one time or another.
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Individuality is founded in feeling
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I've never quite worked out how to do holidays. I've got a house in France which I suppose is a kind of holiday house. But it's really only so I can go on drawing when I get there. I'm never far away from the feeling that I want to be getting on with something.
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A lot of recent comic book adaptations have gone two ways: either they're striving for some kind of realism, like 'Iron Man' or 'The Dark Knight,' or they're very stylised and gritty, like 'Sin City' and '300.'
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Companies that banked their future on broadband - most of them are not very successful.
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They don't mind it: its a reg'lar holiday to them - all porter and skittles.
