Charles Dickens Quotes
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There's guys like me who aren't going to the theater, so distributors are leaving money on the table.
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I did every job under the sun from bartending to ushering to temping.
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I don't know how to make Harper and Alloy want me, not just my name.
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Instead of going out to dinner, buy good food. Cooking at home shows such affection. In a bad economy, it's more important to make yourself feel good.
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Fifteen- to 30-year-olds are interested in all kinds of intelligent movies - it doesn't have to be a broad comedy or an action adventure for them to go see it.
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I feel like every word I say now, I can really inspire people.
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We say that our objective is to conquer complete independence, to install a people's power, to construct a new society without exploitation, for the benefit of all those who feel themselves to be Mozambicans.
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I eat super clean and am always watching what I eat.
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I'd studied English literature at university, but I was also far more enamored with Virginia Woolf, Katherine Mansfield, and James Joyce. That was my passion.
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I still have a lot of my friends from high school. You just know who is there for you for real, and who is trying to get something out of you.
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My finding of myself as an artist, which I think in itself helped me to find just who I am and how I want to express myself, is entirely - in conjunction, of course, with my family, particularly my mom - founded on teachers.
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To do anything truly worth doing, I must not stand back shivering and thinking of the cold and danger, but jump in with gusto and scramble through as well as I can.
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We either make ourselves miserable, or we make ourselves strong. The amount of work is the same.
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The advice of the elders to young men is very apt to be as unreal as a list of the hundred best books.
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So I'm a young boy in the 1940s growing up, seeing Ralph Bunche on a regular basis, seeing Duke Ellington on a regular basis. We know that these people are famous. They're living in the same community as we live in. They go to the same stores and shops.
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I've been privileged to meet presidents and sing at inaugurations and other political events.
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Looks, health and elegance are what counts. Someone can look wonderful in a sweatsuit.
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I think I've had the fantasy of a ray-gun that could erase the world from the time I was a very little kid.
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Your true value depends entirely on what you are compared with.
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There are no different categories of love. There isn't one kind of love between a mother and child, another between lovers, and another between friends. The love that is real is the love that lies at the heart of all relationships. That is the love of God and it doesn't change with form or circumstance.
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There are very few solid family films. A lot of the writing is awful.
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A man who can speak two languages is worth two men.
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But look around at this world, how perfectly it's made. Flowers can't move, yet the insects come to them and spread their pollen. Trees can't move either, but birds and animals eat their fruit and carry their seeds far and wide.
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To have a cricket on the hearth is the luckiest thing in all the world!
