Charles Dickens Quotes
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I breeze through Twitter - I look at the mentions, the pictures, the videos.
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Excellence is not a skill, it's an attitude.
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Of course great politicians are always liable to be wrong about something, and the more people tell them they are wrong, the more stubbornly they defend their error.
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Be fond of the man who jests at his scars, if you like; but never believe he is being on the level with you.
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Men always do leave off really thinking, when the last bit of wild animal dies in them.
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Christmas is a season for kindling the fire for hospitality in the hall, the genial flame of charity in the heart.
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I always follow what my spirit tells me to do.
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I've come to learn that the determined and gifted and genuine sociopath has far more power to deceive than we realize.
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Like its Senate counterpart, H.R. 1908 is the product of years of bipartisan collaboration. And now, by passing S. 1145, the U.S. Senate has a similar opportunity to restore our patent regime to its rightful position of protecting inventors' property rights and spurring innovation. These are values that all Americans should rally behind.
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I never considered myself a movie star, and I didn't want to become a movie star, because as soon as you do, you throw away that possibility of playing character. You really do. All of a sudden you're just an entity, you know?
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I bartended for a catering company for two or three years.
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It was a decent New Year's, but it took a million officers to make it so.
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A sentence that clots in your mouth is unlikely to flow in your mind.
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More is asked of you on stage. It's no way to make a living. But it's like a bullfight. You find out who can do it and who can't.
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I know a lot is going to be on our shoulders, especially the way we're starting games out. We have to start faster; I have to be sharper from the start, and I will be. And I'm confident that if we can get this thing started out a little better each week that we can get on that roll and be tough to stop.
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My uniform is sweatpants, so crusted over with dried paint that they're as hard as a table. I wear T-shirts that are also covered in paint, and Crocs.
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It took the whole of Creation To produce my foot, my each feather: Now I hold Creation in my foot.
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There's so many good comedians in D.C. I started hanging out with those guys. Dave Chappelle was there. Actually, Dave was too young to be in the clubs, so when his mom couldn't make it, he would ask me to pretend I was his aunt, so he could do open mike.
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I've worked in the theater, television, and films. A five-hour TV series is certainly more time than a character I'd be playing in a film.
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It's hard to maintain a life when you do a play. You feel you have to pretend to go through a normal day, knowing that in the evening you'll be doing this.
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When you're an artist, there's always a moment in your life when you think you're not inspired and instead of doing things and instead of travel and instead of falling in love, you're just depressed, so you don't move, so you don't change. So you're not inspired.
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Politics is like bad cinema — people overact, take it too far. When I speak with politicians, I see this in their facial expressions, their eyes, the way they squint. I look at things like a producer. I would often watch a scene on the monitor, and the director and I would yell, ‘Stop, no more, this is unwatchable! No one will believe this.’
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Worship is not just an emotional exercise but a response of the heart built on truth about God.
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Facts alone are wanted in life. Plant nothing else, and root out everything else.
