Charles Dickens Quotes
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I'm not sure if being known opened or closed doors for me.
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I like the way hip-hop is now. It's grown up enough so that it can get involved with politics if it feels like it.
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When I was writing 'The Satanic Verses,' if you had asked me about the phenomenon that we all now know as radical Islam, I wouldn't have had much to say. As recently as the mid-1980s, it didn't seem to be a big deal.
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Throughout my life, I have valued relationships far more than the professionalism.
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Show me a sane man and I will cure him for you.
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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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Corruption is in society and in every strata of society.
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I try to avoid conflict. I don't want people to be unhappy.
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I believe that misconceptions about oneself that one does not correct where possible act as a bad magic.
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I have heard nothing from my friends at The Family Guy. Yeah, I heard that they got picked up again and all that good stuff, but I haven't heard anything yet. But, you know, I'm very elusive and hard to contact.
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My penalty for rocking the boat was being traded.
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I feel like maybe I'm part of that generation that became more of a gamer than a video consumer. It's always been something I've done with my spare time. If I had three hours on a Friday night, I'm not out partying. I'm probably playing video games.
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The competition between me and Bill Gates, probably: Who can spend money more effectively that can do better philanthropy.
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Motherhood is so sentimentalised and romanticised in our culture. It's practically against the law to say there are moments in the day when you hate your children. Everyone actually has those moments.
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I've always been very tied to language.
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Gloves make you so much more delicate.
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Since I'm a vegetarian, I try to focus on getting my protein and iron needs met.
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It's very rare to see an undisturbed birth in a modern U.S. teaching hospital, but when you see a woman who isn't frightened, who's giving birth without interference, you stand back in awe and realize how little needed you are except in the rare circumstance.
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I'm not focused on radio or whether I'm going to get all the audiences... all I wanted were great songs that were universal to any listener - Black, White, Green, Yellow; any kind a age difference.
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Ever since Adam's day, the divine law of the Sabbath has been emphasized repeatedly over the centuries more than any other commandment. This long emphasis alone is an indication of its importance.
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We picked up Madonna at The Ritz to go to the Gaultier show together, and she took off her coat. At this point she hadn’t even said a word to me, but she leaned over and said to me, Anna, I have a surprise for you, and she showed me she was wearing my dress.
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Keri Russell is one of the prettiest girls I've ever seen in my life. She's one of those girls that doesn't have that thing when you walk into the trailer in the morning, and your face is all bashed in - like a lot of actors, even the beautiful and handsome ones.
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My wife is a very attractive woman, and she's always worried about her diet. But she doesn't pay attention to me, and I don't pay attention to her. She's a vegetarian, and it drives me crazy.
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She's the ornament of her sex.
