Charles Dickens Quotes

You should know," said Estella. "I am what you have made me. Take all the praise, take all the blame; take all the success, take all the failure; in short, take me.

Charles Dickens

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• During workouts, I listen to Pandora, and I like the '90s pop stations. 'The Backstreet Boys' is fun!

  

  Kacy Catanzaro
  • Fun
  • Like
  • Listen

• When my first child was born in 1962, I wrote a letter to my grandfather telling him how happy I was but how concerned; concerned because there were so many visions which were not very good.

  

  Harri Holkeri
  • Good
  • Happy
  • Child

• I see myself as an artist who happens to do cartoons.

  

  Pat Oliphant
  • Myself
  • Artist
  • Happens

• Obviously, I never want to make the same record twice. I want to keep moving forward. That's the real challenge, I think.

  

  Washed Out
  • Real
  • Moving
  • Challenge

• I love things that people hate. I hate middle-of-the-road stuff. It never really interests me.

  

  Patrick Fischler
  • People
  • Hate
  • Things

• 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.

  

  Kate O'Mara
  • Respect
  • Woman
  • Try

• Millions of us, myself included, go back generations in this country, with ancestors who put in the painstaking work to become citizens. So we don't like the notion that anyone might get a free pass to American citizenship.

  

  Barack Obama
  • Work
  • Country
  • American

• Is it not careless to become too local when there are four hundred billion stars in our galaxy alone.

  

  A. R. Ammons
  • Alone
  • Stars
  • Galaxy

• I've seen descriptions of advanced TV systems in which a simulation of reality is computer-controlled; the TV viewer of the future will wear a special helmet. You'll no longer be an external spectator to fiction created by others, but an active participant in your own fantasies/dramas.

  

  J. G. Ballard
  • Future
  • Reality
  • Special

• In '94, we made the deal during collective bargaining that wasn't the right deal, just to save the season. Allowing the 'in the crease' rule, the foot-in-the-crease rule, we should have not done.

  

  Gary Bettman
  • Done
  • Just
  • Collective

• I feel like a mirror reflecting back everyone's perception of me.

  

  M.I.A.
  • Me
  • Mirror
  • Perception

• In studio films, everything has to be boxed in, everybody needs to know beforehand - this is comedy, this is sci-fi, this is drama - and what's the point of independent film if you don't get to experiment?

  

  Famke Janssen
  • Know
  • Comedy
  • Drama

• There has got to be more to life than being a really, really, ridiculously good actor.

  

  Gary Busey
  • Life
  • Good
  • Actor

• There's a difference between a failure and a fiasco... a fiasco is a disaster of mythic proportions.

  

  Orlando Bloom
  • Failure
  • Difference
  • Between

• I heard what was said of the universe, heard it and heard it of several thousand years; it is middling well as far as it goes - but is that all?

  

  Walt Whitman
  • Universe
  • Years
  • Said

• I feel that we, as Indians, have a knack for loving a stereotypical, sobbing, sympathy-seeking personality. I feel that we need to promote quirky, cool and youthful talent. We have to stop propagating the sob-story angle of celebs, where they try to be larger-than-life. That is very outdated. It is so boring that it puts you to sleep.

  

  Kangana Ranaut
  • Life
  • Stop
  • Cool

• It's very hard not to let fame affect you because you are continually being told how good you are. After a while you begin to think there must be some truth in it because all those people can't be wrong.

  

  Jack Wild
  • People
  • Good
  • Truth

• You just can't let anything or anyone get in the way of who you are.

  

  AJ McLean
  • Way
  • You
  • Just

• I've loved every minute I've spent in television. And I've had much more failure, as traditionally measured, than success in television. I've done four shows, and only one of them was the 'West Wing.'

  

  Aaron Sorkin
  • Done
  • Success
  • Failure

• People think it’s a failure to live alone. But it isn’t. The failure is to live with someone because you can’t face anything else.

  

  M. John Harrison
  • People
  • Live
  • Alone

• I think commercial success is really important. It means there are more people listening, and you're affecting the zeitgeist more. If only a hundred people know you exist, it's harder to get your message across.

  

  Courtney Love
  • People
  • Important
  • Success

• Can we really mobilize support, even of friends, when we tell them that if you are not with us you are against us?

  

  Zbigniew Brzezinski
  • Friends
  • You
  • Support

• I like to talk about weirdness. We all have strange thoughts and ideas, and when you really trust someone you can express them. And they can express them to you, and that's one of the joys of life.

  

  Rebecca Stead
  • Life
  • Strange
  • Weirdness

• You should know," said Estella. "I am what you have made me. Take all the praise, take all the blame; take all the success, take all the failure; in short, take me.

  

  Charles Dickens
  • Success
  • Failure
  • Praise