Charles Dickens Quotes
Fan the sinking flame of hilarity with the wing of friendship; and pass the rosy wine.
Quotes to Explore
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Americans think Soviets are so grim. I want them to see that they can smile.
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Life in California is beautiful.
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New York is my home.
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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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Man can never be a woman's equal in the spirit of selfless service with which nature has endowed her.
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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.
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I've always been about how will digital be transforming established businesses, and that's what I've done.
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Wait a minute, I'm a fan of yours; you can't be a fan of mine!
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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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I do know that detachment is important. A surgeon can't be weeping into the open wound.
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Remain close to government and away from politics. It means deal more with the authorities. And less with individuals.
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What you wear onstage is a reflection of your artistry.
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What I value in books is lucidity. I want the language to be rich; I love lexical fireworks on the page, but I have to know what it means. I want to be surprised and delighted, not merely baffled.
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I'd love to do movies and be on TV. But I think if I transitioned into TV/film completely, I would really miss singing and dancing. It would be ideal to be cast in a movie musical!
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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.
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By having a blog, you can make yourself very accessible to your target audience. You can leave comments open on your blog so you can learn exactly what your audience likes about what you're doing with your business and about what they think you should change.
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Between 12 and 14, I shot up a ridiculous amount. The muscles were struggling to stretch and grow at the rate my bones were growing. It gave me problems with my back and my hamstrings.
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I choose work with the people I like to work with.
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Running is a simple, primitive act, and therein lays its power. For it is one of the few commonalities left between us as a human race.
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To the one, a little natural moderation and quietness of temper may be sufficient to conduct us: but to the other, we can only attain by much discipline and slow advances; and when we think we have made great way, we shall often find reason to confess in the hour of trial, that we had greatly, far too greatly, over-rated our progress.
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Talk, talk, talk: the utter and heartbreaking stupidity of words.
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A good margarita, a good red wine, I like expensive alcohol, but not a lot of it. I don't like to throw up.
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Friendship is two souls inhabiting one body.
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Fan the sinking flame of hilarity with the wing of friendship; and pass the rosy wine.
