Charles Dickens Quotes
The town was glad with morning light; places that had shown ugly and distrustful all night long, now wore a smile; and sparkling sunbeams dancing on chamber windows, and twinkling through blind and curtain before sleepers’ eyes, shed light even into dreams, and chased away the shadows of the night.
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I hate it when guys wear really tight t-shirts. It's just so horrible, especially when you can see their bellies.
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When you work with a legend as I do, it's wonderful. There's so many things I've learned working with Keith. He's so patient, not only with me, but with everyone in our crew and with the audience and with the game. He has a style that is so easy and will never be copied.
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It's a funny thing about rap, that when you say 'I' into the microphone, it's like a public confession. It's very strange.
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I was an English major in college!
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People might think writing is a hard business, but it's nowhere near acting.
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Let your emotions come out. If your behavior is flat, your game will be flat, too.
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I believe in luck. My luck's real streaky.
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I often tell people when you make a mistake, you not only hurt yourself, but you hurt the ones that love you.
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Unlike fashion, art isn't applied. It doesn't have to serve anybody. It doesn't have to be there for any other reason than to give an impression of what the world is about.
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I guess just a lively imagination is the best effort an actor can have.
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The big difference between the radio show and the TV work is that I don't have to work by committee on the radio show. I'm the DJ; I can play what I want and suffer or get praised by that. With a TV show, it's much more of a collaboration, and the song that I might think is perfect may get shot down and vice versa.
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Fashion anticipates.
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Humor is merely tragedy standing on its head with its pants torn.
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I feel like I'm not the greatest general manager in the history of general managers, but I do OK, and I'm learning as I go. I try to just do my best with it.
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The biggest critics of my books are people who never read them.
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All Hollywood corrupts; and absolute Hollywood corrupts absolutely.
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The two World Wars came in part, like much modern literature and art, because men, whose nature is to tire of everything in turn... tired of common sense and civilization.
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Whenever you argue with another wiser than yourself in order that others may admire your wisdom, they will discover your ignorance.
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I was totally offended when people said we were like *Nsync. I've got nothing against them. I know those guys. But comparing us was lame. It was apples and oranges.
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In the presence of the total reality upon which our conduct is founded, our knowledge is characterized by peculiar limitations and aberrations. We cannot say in principle that 'error is life and knowledge is death,' because a being involved in persistent errors would continually act wide of the purpose, and would thus inevitably perish.
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It is the duty of the human understanding to understand that there are things which it cannot understand, and what those things are. Human understanding has vulgarly occupied itself with nothing but understanding, but if it would only take the trouble to understand itself at the same time it would simply have to posit the paradox.
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The Republican party still helps the rich and sticks a knife in the back of the poor.
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The town was glad with morning light; places that had shown ugly and distrustful all night long, now wore a smile; and sparkling sunbeams dancing on chamber windows, and twinkling through blind and curtain before sleepers’ eyes, shed light even into dreams, and chased away the shadows of the night.
