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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As a teenager you are at the last stage in your life when you will be happy to hear that the phone is for you.
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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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Freedom is a lonely battle, but if the United States doesn't lead it - sometimes imperfectly, but mostly with honor - who will?
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Nothing lasts.
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It's not even about being negative. It's just being unsettled, unsatisfied, unfinished.
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Outside the hospital, I squinted in the harsh morning sunlight. I could hear birds chirping in the tree, but even though I searched for them, they remained hidden from me.
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If someone says you're a reporter and doesn't want you to anchor then you wonder why you worked so hard at it.
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We can only protect liberty by making it relevant to the modern world.
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To have a cricket on the hearth is the luckiest thing in all the world!
