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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Reading allows you to go into a space that nothing else can take you to.
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I wrote a book. It sucked. I wrote nine more books. They sucked, too. Meanwhile, I read every single thing I could find on publishing and writing, went to conferences, joined professional organizations, hooked up with fellow writers in critique groups, and didn't give up. Then I wrote one more book.
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It just reminds me of being a kid and Christmastime - you know, watching TV
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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.
