Charles Dickens Quotes
"A child!" said Edith, looking at her. "When was I a child? What childhood did you ever leave to me? I was a woman - artful, designing, mercenary, laying snares for men - before I knew myself, or you, or even understood the base and wretched aim of every new display I learnt. You gave birth to a woman. Look upon her. She is in her pride tonight."
Quotes to Explore
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I don't like the word 'experiment' in the context of art in general. It implies something immature, unfinished, something entertaining for a moment before it becomes irrelevant.
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I throw ideas out into the open when I really should just be writing them down in a journal.
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It is often said by religious people that without its framework, there is no sense of right or wrong. My view is that religion comes after ethics.
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Going to rehearsals of school plays got me out of science. It became clear what inspired me and what dampened my spirit. The only other thing I could do at school was trampolining - it didn't seem to have much future in it.
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I didn't consciously make the decision to write an adult novel. I didn't think of it as my riposte to the YA genre.
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The usual fortune of complaint is to excite contempt more than pity.
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I'd always gone to the theater as a child every month to see whatever was on. I think that's where the passion for it came from.
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Sometimes I can be misunderstood. I'm really competitive.
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Producing all my own songs and refusing to go to the hot producer. That's the biggest risk I've taken so far.
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I just wish that people will be kinder to me when I pass away.
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I just like art. I get pure pleasure from it. I have a lot of wonderful paintings, and every time I look at them I see something different.
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Too many times, the international community has not prepared the post-conflict period in time.
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The problem with forbearance is that it always looks like a good thing to do until it stops working.
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Sometimes I think sportsmanship is a little bit forgotten in place of the individual attention.
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I grew up in a little bubble of Brooklyn in France! In Stains, I was learning to speak English; I was listening to Biggie Smalls and KRS-One, and so I basically lived the life by proxy. At the same time, I had the same problems and issues they were singing about right next to me, so it was easy to identify with it.
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As the Cold War melts into history, our first concern should be the preservation and extension of human rights and democracy.
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I know 'Vikings' isn't really based in magic, but it goes back to Old World spirituality and different religions, and a lot of voodoo.
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My opinion on who's wrong or who's right has nothing to do with the fact that we have to bring together people who are against each other, to transform antagonism into cooperation.
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Competition helps people figure it out.
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One learns better than to hand one's choices to fear. With age, with every wound and scar, one learns.
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I like neurotic people. I like troubled people. Not that I don't like squared-away people, but I prefer neurotic people. I like to hear rumblings beneath the surface.
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Most writers, by the time they're 60, must have revisited their childhood a dozen times.
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I look like an accountant. And no offense to accountants! There's some really cool accountants out there.
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"A child!" said Edith, looking at her. "When was I a child? What childhood did you ever leave to me? I was a woman - artful, designing, mercenary, laying snares for men - before I knew myself, or you, or even understood the base and wretched aim of every new display I learnt. You gave birth to a woman. Look upon her. She is in her pride tonight."
