Charles Dickens Quotes
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I don't make movies for the same reason that a lot of people do. I make films because I need to see them exist in a very specific way.
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I don't want people to think of me as sexy.
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I have never appreciated a quiet moment with a friend as much, a quiet moment with a book and I think part of that is my obsession with being older and time going faster and it's become increasingly sweeter for me.
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I'm going to go to school. It doesn't matter what the outcome is as long as I did it. I can say I did it.
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Since beginning my work in areas like addiction, for example, I have seen time and time again that the roots of poor mental health in adulthood are almost always present in unresolved childhood challenges.
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One is sometimes meant to reassure the reader that she's qualified to write about a certain topic.
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Apparently, the city of Delhi is a 'character' in my novels. I'd argue that it's a ... city... in my novels.
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If you go to pilot then you are probably going to go to series. That's my feeling about it.
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Everybody can draw, in my estimation. If you give a man 50 years, he'll come up with the Mona Lisa.
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All women are NATURALLY, bad ass!
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The way people are being displaced, who can stop the arrival of Maoism?
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I don't stretch my body as if it is an object. I do yoga from the self towards the body, not the other way around.
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We the mortals touch the metals, the wind, the ocean shores, the stones, knowing they will go on, inert or burning, and I was discovering, naming all the these things: it was my destiny to love and say goodbye.
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By freethinking I mean the use of the understanding in endeavoring to find out the meaning of any proposition whatsoever, in considering the nature of the evidence for or against, and in judging of it according to the seeming force or weakness of the evidence.
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Skullcrack City messes with your mind the way William Burroughs or a bellyful of hallucinogens will do. I'm a longtime fan of Johnson. A master of derangement, he's been bringing it for years. This time, though, it's different. He's burst into the clear and is taking seven-league strides across the literary landscape.
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I like movies where you can come back and re-watch them and admire the cinematography 25 years later.
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Niagara Falls is simply a vast unnecessary amount of water going over the wrong way and then falling over unnecessary cliffs...The wonder would be if the water did not fall.
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To those in the executive branch who say ‘just trust us’ when it comes to secret and warrantless surveillance of domestic communications, I say, ‘Remember your history.’
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I've been working through Maurice Druon's 'Accursed Kings' series. They come highly recommended from George R. R. Martin, and for good reason.
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The reason why China suffers bitterly from endless wars is because of the existence of feudal lords and kings.
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Noble passions are like vices: the more they are satisfied, the greater they grow, Mothers and gamblers are insatiable.
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Grammar, which knows how to lord it over kings, and with high hands makes them obey its laws.
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It is an old prerogative of kings to govern everything but their passions.
