Charles Dickens Quotes
The first diabolical character who intruded himself on my peaceful youth (as I called to mind that day at Dullborough), was a certain Captain Murderer. This wretch must have been an off-shoot of the Blue Beard family, but I had no suspicion of the consanguinity in those times. His warning name would seem to have awakened no general prejudice against him, for he was admitted into the best society and possessed immense wealth. Captain Murderer's mission was matrimony, and the gratification of a cannibal appetite with tender brides.
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We struggle to understand how any mother could kill her own children.
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Why does it appear that interested readers so often attribute flaws to 'the press' rather than taking particular issue with particular reports?
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I think in a play it's wise to just sit back and watch other actors and be able to shape it from the audience.
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We have the power to do any damn fool thing we want to do, and we seem to do it about every 10 minutes.
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Happiness is an inside job.
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In the beginning, there was silence. And out of the silence came the sound. The sound is not here.
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Over my career, I've had to do a lot of shows that involve stunts, and I so enjoy stunts.
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It's important for me to think I'm mixed-race.
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Thirty was so strange for me. I've really had to come to terms with the fact that I am now a walking and talking adult.
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People think that I can just walk into a room and get a job, but of the 200 interviews and auditions I go through a year, I may get three yeses. I just have to use my sense of humour to get me through.
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I think that when I was child, acting was mostly just a hobby for me. It was something that my parents encouraged me to think of the way that my brothers thought of their cross-country classes, or my little sister to dance classes and art classes, and it was something like that for me.
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In general, I tend to laugh too much. I always try to tell myself not to, but I think that's just part of getting through the job. It's not rocket science. I want to have a good time!
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The life of the hereafter is the outcome of all this world.
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We should involve the whole world in the handling of this refugee crisis.
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Manifest plainness, embrace simplicity, reduce selfishness, have few desires.
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The real actor has a direct line to the collective heart.
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Just because scientists have the knowledge to do it, the technology to do it, and some may even have a financial motive or other incentive to do it, does not make it right.
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So many people have this idea: I want to achieve something great or be somebody great. And they neglect the step that leads to greatness. They don't honor this step at this moment because they have this idea of some future moment where they are going to be great.
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I walk in the world as a woman because I am a woman, and people should take me as that. I'm not passing as anything that I'm not. I'm just being myself.
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A novelist must preserve a childlike belief in the importance of things which common sense considers of no great consequence.
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There is a glass ceiling for the Indian startups. If I want to meet the PM, it won't be as easy as a foreign guy coming to India. I understand that dynamic, and we need to make sure government sees us as major contributors to society, which is not full there.
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When a fortune comes without calling, it's apt to leave without asking.
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I would like to do a duet with Taylor Hanson, because I have loved Hanson since I was 8.
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The first diabolical character who intruded himself on my peaceful youth (as I called to mind that day at Dullborough), was a certain Captain Murderer. This wretch must have been an off-shoot of the Blue Beard family, but I had no suspicion of the consanguinity in those times. His warning name would seem to have awakened no general prejudice against him, for he was admitted into the best society and possessed immense wealth. Captain Murderer's mission was matrimony, and the gratification of a cannibal appetite with tender brides.
