Charles Dickens Quotes
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Life does not owe me a shred.
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I try to write about a woman finding her self-respect, valuing herself, and liking herself again. But what one desperately wants now is to write a proper novel.
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I am very much against makeup and high heels and all that we inherit as 'beauty.'
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When you make a movie, it's up to so many things and so many people.
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I'm a stand-up. I'm never worried about getting my next role. That's never distressing to me.
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Some artists are working to buy the mansion or whatever the element of fame must bear, but I spend all my money on my show.
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We have 1.8 million Americans behind bars today at Local, State and Federal level. In the federal system, which has doubled in the last ten years, over 110,000 people behind bars in the Federal system, probably two-thirds are there for drug related reason.
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There's no time for boys in my life right now.
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A lot of people ask me what my mom has taught me about modeling. The truth is the things she teaches me go deeper than what pose to make or what my good side is.
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If you really do want to be an actor who can satisfy himself and his audience, you need to be vulnerable. You must reach the emotional and intellectual level of ability where you can go out stark naked, emotionally, in front of an audience.
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It's very simple. You have to be faithful to your other half and not have secrets. That's my rule.
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I have a love for boxing.
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Even when they have nothing, the Irish emit a kind of happiness, a joy.
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Nothing was made in Trinidad.
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If we perform as a unit and if every single player gives it his very best, everything can happen.
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The reality is our story and the way we love and our taste in clothing and everything else. And what we ambitiously feel we can be.
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The way people deal with me - they'll go overboard in trying to be politically correct and make a mess of it. Everyone's so worried about what they're saying to everyone else, that they don't talk very much.
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I think, though, that people will read into a reporter's story a bias that they want to see in a reporter.
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You've got to make a lot of sacrifices and spend a lot of time if you really want to achieve with this sport, or in any sport, or in anything truly worthwhile.
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In bookstores, my stuff is usually filed in the out-of-the-way, additional interest sections.
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When I was teaching at an institution that bent over backward for foreign students, I was asked in class one day: "What is your policy toward foreign students?" My reply was: "To me, all students are the same. I treat them all the same and hold them all to the same standards." The next semester there was an organized boycott of my classes by foreign students. When people get used to preferential treatment, equal treatment seems like discrimination.
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I've dominated past competitions, but I've sweated blood and tears for every medal. I take nothing for granted, and I'm fully focused on doing my best.
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Which demands a lot of himself and some others, will be free from hatred.
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One should never be ashamed to cry. Tears are rain on the dust of earth.
