Charles Dickens Quotes

It is an old prerogative of kings to govern everything but their passions.

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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.

  

  Harmony Korine
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• I don't want people to think of me as sexy.

  

  Taylor Swift
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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.

  

  Candice Bergen
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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.

  

  Tatyana Ali
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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.

  

  Kate Middleton
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• One is sometimes meant to reassure the reader that she's qualified to write about a certain topic.

  

  Rachel Kushner
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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.

  

  Karan Mahajan
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• If you go to pilot then you are probably going to go to series. That's my feeling about it.

  

  Gabriel Macht
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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.

  

  Jack Kirby
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• All women are NATURALLY, bad ass!

  

  Alicia Keys
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• The way people are being displaced, who can stop the arrival of Maoism?

  

  Vishwanath Pratap Singh
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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.

  

  Bellur Krishnamachar Sundararaja Iyengar
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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.

  

  Pablo Neruda
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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.

  

  Anthony Collins
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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.

  

  Laird Barron
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• I like movies where you can come back and re-watch them and admire the cinematography 25 years later.

  

  Rob Zombie
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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.

  

  Oscar Wilde
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• Have you noticed there are no interesting people in heaven? -Just a hint to the girls as to where they can find their salvation.

  

  Friedrich Nietzsche
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  • Salvation

• It is not enough to give orders they must be obeyed.

  

  Napoleon Bonaparte
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  • Orders
  • Obeyed

• To exaggerate the fairness of hair, I come even to orange tones, chromes and pale yellow ... I make a plain background of the richest, intensest blue that I can contrive, and by this simple combination of the bright head against the rich blue background, I get a mysterious effect, like a star in the depths of an azure sky.

  

  Vincent Van Gogh
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• When I perform my role well, I feel proud.

  

  Kim Nam-joon BTS
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• He who is incapable of feeling strong passions, of being shaken by anger, of living in every sense of the word, will never be a good actor.

  

  Sarah Bernhardt
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  • Anger
  • Passions

• It is an old prerogative of kings to govern everything but their passions.

  

  Charles Dickens
  • Kings
  • Passions
  • Prerogative