Charles Dickens Quotes
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Did anyone ever have a boring dream?
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Indie movies got co-opted by the studio system. The studios insisted that only stars could make movies successful.
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I was a very shy, overly big, kind of creepy-looking kid.
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I have to do something with my mind, or I'll get in trouble.
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After retiring from competition in 1981, I did exhibitions and coached.
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Writing, overall, has never been what I'd call fun. It's fulfilling. It doesn't come real easy for me.
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I thought everybody could sing, because everybody in my family could.
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I think it was a modest thing I did (Fahrenheit 9/11) ... this is an election year ... I'm not telling them how to vote. I'm saying get information about the issues ... at first there's just silence, then there's 'Yeah!' and then there's 'Boo' ... I have never seen a reaction like this, in all my years of touring ... Clear Channel can't threaten to not play my records because they are not going to play them anyway.
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Acting is a specific discipline. Just because you can sing doesn't mean you have the sensitivities of being an actor.
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The hardest thing for me about making movies, and that included 'M*A*S*H' because it was made like a movie, was starting and stopping.
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I have a certain energy on screen, and it's either needed or it's definitely not needed. I know that I can stick out like a sore thumb, and there are some women I'm not ready to play.
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It's not meant to be entertaining. If you want entertainment, go to the pictures. This is serious!
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I love satire. Evelyn Waugh is one of my favorite writers of all time. He's hilarious. He's so wicked. He's so great. On the other hand, pure satire is an imitation. It doesn't really have any heart. It only holds things up to ridicule.
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What a gorgeous day. What effulgent sunshine. It was a day of this sort the McGillicuddy brothers murdered their mother with an axe.
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Nevertheless, it is necessary to remember that a planned economy is not yet socialism. A planned economy as such may be accompanied by the complete enslavement of the individual. The achievement of socialism requires the solution of some extremely difficult socio-political problems: how is it possible, in view of the far-reaching centralisation of political and economic power, to prevent bureaucracy from becoming all-powerful and overweening? How can the rights of the individual be protected and therewith a democratic counterweight to the power of bureaucracy be assured?
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I set it down as a maxim, that it is good for a man to live where he can meet his betters, intellectual and social.
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Anytime you get this many light-skinned black people together at least half of them are going to be folks who act light-skinned.
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I was very shy as a kid but when I found out I could perform and have people's attention everything changed for me. My mom likes to joke that until I was eight or nine I only knew what my sneakers looked like because I constantly walked around with my head down. But all of a sudden the stage made sense and that's what brought me out of my shell and a monster was created.
