Charles Dickens Quotes
At last, however, he began to think -- as you or I would have thought at first; for it is always the person not in the predicament who knows what ought to have been done in it, and would unquestionably have done it too . . .
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When I was starting out and had to cut my teeth and build my resume to get in, I had to basically work for free on a lot of things.
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I work eight hours a day, but I'm not writing all that time. I'm thinking, editing, looking something up. Thinking is what I do a lot of.
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I am a crazy Maverick fan. I would go there if Dallas was a great entertainment center.
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When people go through something rough in life, they say, 'I'm taking it one day at a time.' Yes, so is everybody. Because that's how time works.
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Economic growth and human development need to go hand in hand. Human values need to be advocated vigorously.
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I love adventure sports. And, I love cooking.
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There were a couple of things in the intervention that made me know I needed help. One was a letter from my daughter saying that she was ashamed she had the same last name as I did, which will shock you a little bit.
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I belonged to the 'Point Break' generation - I watched the original when I was 13 years old. It's basically the story of the rescue of the human spirit, and we continue to fight that same spiritual battle, but with a political expression.
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But sometimes the women writers will pitch something and I'll hear it, but the men will keep talking.
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I got a little bit lost in the writing process: like, that moment in the 'Fight Song' music video where I'm throwing the crumpled paper on the bed, that was really true life. I was filling journals with different possibilities of lyrics for the first verse. And none of them felt right.
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I try and sit on the fence because as soon as you voice any kind of opinion, people begin to think you're an idiot.
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Whither goest thou, America, in thy shiny car in the night?
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I'd like to give people leaden boots in galleries, so they'd be a bit slower in front of my paintings. And that's because I spend so much time looking at them. I can look at them a long, long time without getting bored. I disappear.
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I'm kind of long in the tooth to fly in in a cape now, so I'd have to be, like, the voice of reason or somebody. 'Don't do that, super-fellow!'
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You can't be taught to be brainy. You've either got it or you don't.
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Western record companies haven't always dealt with African musicians in the best way. Giving them a lot of money and telling them they're going to be bigger than Phil Collins is the wrong way to do it!
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When you make as many speeches and you talk as much as I do and you get away from the text, it's always a possibility to get a few words tangled here and there.
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The addict will screw you over and lie to you and do all kinds of things.
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One must think like a hero to behave like a merely decent human being.
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Faith is an act of a finite being who is grasped by, and turned to, the infinite.
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As we know, forgiveness of oneself is the hardest of all the forgivenesses.
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If you think there are no new frontiers, watch a boy ring the front doorbell on his first date.
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I have to be in bed by seven. I look at my watch and think, 'It's nearly five, almost time for bed'.
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At last, however, he began to think -- as you or I would have thought at first; for it is always the person not in the predicament who knows what ought to have been done in it, and would unquestionably have done it too . . .
