Charles Dickens Quotes
The broken heart. You think you will die, but you just keep living, day after day after terrible day.
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What is more important? What the members of a politicised tribunal say, or what the citizens vote for? For me, it is clear.
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It is easy to be nice, even to an enemy - from lack of character.
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It's nice to get any awards, whether it's lifetime achievement or the Keith Richards award for being alive one more year.
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If there is something I am arguing, it is a critique of science. Science has consistently denied the existence of consciousness other than human. Only in the last 20 years do we have acknowledgement of animal feeling or culture or experience.
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It is proper to ask for sorrow with Christ in sorrow, anguish with Christ in anguish, tears and deep grief because of the great affliction Christ endures for me.
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As a businessperson, I don't have the power to change the government. That is in the hands of the political leaders. However, as a taxpayer, we have the right to be critical of the government and demand change.
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Oh, I am an angel, though sometimes I wish I was more of a devil.
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I love, personally, the experience of going to the theater, going to the cinema.
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If the colonists hadn't rejected British militarism and the massive financial burden of maintaining the British military, America wouldn't exist.
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The Stonewall riots were a key moment for gay people. Throughout modern history, gays had thought of themselves as something like a mental illness or maybe a sin or a crime. Gay liberation allowed us to make the leap to being a 'minority group,' which made life much easier.
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Russia is an amazing country to be an entrepreneur.
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Writers are outsiders. Even when we seem like insiders, we're outsiders. We have to be. Our noses pressed to the glass, we notice everything. We mull and interpret. We store away clues, details that may be useful to us later.
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Because of my own family's service (in the U.S. Army, Navy, and Massachusetts and New York National Guard), I am a strong supporter of the military and do believe that there are just wars.
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My dad was a holistic doctor, so putting good things into my body has always been something I've strived for.
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Women view men like houses. They look for fixer-uppers.
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I am not ever in the business of making anyone feel bad.
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Between 1776 and 1789, Americans replaced a government over them with a government under them. They have worried ever since about keeping it under. Distrust of its powers has been more common and more visible than distrust of the imperial authority of England ever was before the Revolution.
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It was then, I think, that I discovered that the best way of bringing a medieval subject home to my generation was not to be medieval in its treatment.
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How do you play 'righteous'? Do you just kind of stand up straighter? What does that mean as an actor? You don't really play a quality.
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I lay down as a proposition that most of the people who work hard for a living in the country belong to the Liberal Party. I would say, and I think, without offence, that most of the people who never worked for a living at all belong to the Tory Party.
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The stakes are high on every film now because there's the opening weekend. The first week is extremely crucial; increasingly, films are being judged in terms of opening day, opening weekend, then first week. People are going berserk promoting their films.
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A writer is like a bean plant - he has his little day, and then gets stringy.
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The broken heart. You think you will die, but you just keep living, day after day after terrible day.
