Charles Dickens Quotes
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I feel I'm a strange mixture of insecurity and strength. Most of us, probably most people. I'm transferring that same concept to the people I photograph.
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I have found men to be more kind than I expected, and less just.
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I try to get away and take my motorcycle on a ride whenever I can. I'll take my bike out before the show and just cruise.
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As a parent, it's my responsibility to equip my child to do this - to grieve when grief is necessary and to realize that life is still profoundly beautiful and worth living despite the fact that we inevitably lose one another and that life ends, and we don't know what happens after death.
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I don't know how I got involved in 'Celebrity Wife Swap.' It came from my agent Hugh. He got the opportunity for me.
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I am a businessman.
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For me, songwriting is something like breathing: I just do it. But that doesn't mean you're fantastic.
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The trick to being a novelist is to act like an iceberg. Make it seem as if you're displaying only one-tenth of what you know, and the other nine-tenths isn't visible and never mind if that part is pure styrofoam!
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I can let go of a lot of stuff, but I focus on things I think I should, like dancing, because it takes 100 percent concentration on every step.
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I'm very, very involved in charities involving youth.
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There are a number of women who have brought about immense change in society.
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I grew up in musical theatre and love to perform on stage.
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You're never really cancer-free and I should have known that.
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I don't think there are too many traditional media guys who really understood what the new digital media is about.
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Christmas albums are not something you do frequently.
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The gap in India has always been between the promise and the execution.
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It's easier to change what you do than people think it is. If you don't change, your field changes around you.
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It was probably my parents who inspired me most. My father was a scientist and answered my scientific questions, while my mother took me on walks and showed me birds and plants. She also took me out at night and showed me the constellations and the aurora.
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I have got a scheme to make a thing in the form of a horse with a steam engine in the inside so contrived as to move an immense pair of wings, fixed on the outside of the horse, in such a manner as to carry it up into the air while a person sits on its back.
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There are, I believe, many more false confessions to murders than true confessions.
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If you want a chicken to be a duck, and a duck to be a chicken, you will suffer.
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Scatman, fat man, black and white and brown man, tell me 'bout the color of your soul.
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Increasingly, there are those of us who write from outside the center, and those are the writers that I'm most interested in because they bring me into worlds that I did not previously know. And that, as a writer, is what I try to create.
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Take nothing on its looks; take everything on evidence. There's no better rule.
