Charles Dickens Quotes
Christmas time! That man must be a misanthrope indeed, in whose breast something like a jovial feeling is not roused - in whose mind some pleasant associations are not awakened - by the recurrence of Christmas.
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I've had many a player tell me all through high school and right up until signing day that they were coming to Alabama, then they signed with somebody else.
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I'd like to think you don't stop being creative once you get happy. My ultimate goal is to end up being happy. Most of the time.
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I like to write. I love to write. But I write just for myself and my own pleasure.
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Going to the gym wouldn't be on my list of favorite things to do.
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If you want to get technical about it, Rocky couldn't carry my jockstrap.
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Her own grief grieved her. His devastated her. (On Sophie Mol's death, describing Mamachi's grief, and Chacko's).
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When you have somebody in a position of power show interest in you after you've kind of been down and out, that's a big boost.
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Climate change is a reality.
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Many women cut back what had to be done at home by redefining what the house, the marriage and, sometimes, what the child needs. One woman described a fairly common pattern: I do my half. I do half of his half, and the rest doesn't get done.
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No matter what heights you achieve, even if you're Brad Pitt, the slide is coming, sure as death and taxes.
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Like other important immigrant communities, the Jewish experience in the United States represents the ideal of freedom and the promise and opportunity of America.
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The faster you can get your ideas in contact with the real world, the faster you can discover what is broken with your idea.
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I ran for public office to do something good.
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Work is the most nourishing thing so far in my life.
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Comic-Con is overwhelming when you have such a long day of press schedules.
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Movies are so rarely great art that if we cannot appreciate great trash we have very little reason to be interested in them.
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When you have tools with which to stalk everyone all the time, the most seemingly aloof person wins.
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I was at the Royal Shakespeare Company, where I thought, in my naivete, I'd stay for the rest of my career. I'd thought I'd work up through the ranks and go from spear carrier - or in my case, the eunuch, which was several rungs below the spear carrier - to King Lear.
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God is another name for human intelligence raised above all error and imperfection, and extended to all possible truth.
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Cowards never won heaven. Do not claim that you are begotten of God and you have His royal blood running in your veins unless you can prove your lineage by His heroic spirit: to dare to be holy in spite of men and devils.
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In France a lot of songs were ruined by their associations with commercials. But so far no Apple commercial has ruined a song for me.
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It just reminds me of being a kid and Christmastime - you know, watching TV
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In the practice called free writing, you can use any object as your own personal Rorschach test for entering a stream of associations. Simply write the first thing that comes to your mind as you look at the object in front of you and then keep going without stopping, rereading, or crossing out.
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Christmas time! That man must be a misanthrope indeed, in whose breast something like a jovial feeling is not roused - in whose mind some pleasant associations are not awakened - by the recurrence of Christmas.
