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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I simply adore getting dressed up for a special occasion. I feel incredible stepping out in luxurious fabrics and a bit of bling. That's also how I feel about special-occasion dining rooms. Because these aren't everyday spaces, they contain all sorts of drama for that once-in-a-while 'wow' event.
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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've played the game for a long time.
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My daughter's the greatest thing that's happened to me in my life and she turned me into a more responsible man, as opposed to just someone who's a perpetual teenager, thinking you're a man when you're not.
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In brief, she is the partner to what primarily he creates; he is the visitor to what primarily she creates. To me, this wasn’t equality.
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Or if I truly gave up I could be like Wet Lindsay. When Robbie dumped her she got all pale and even wetter than normal. She was like an anoraksick. (A person who is both very thin and wears tragic anoraks.) I just made that up as a joke. Even though I am very upset I can still think of a joke.
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She's the ornament of her sex.
