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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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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There's to be a film about my life. I can give this as an exclusive now. Meryl Streep was offered the part but, no, I wanted Kate Winslet. Kylie Minogue is playing me in middle age. In old age, I'm not sure who's going to play me. I haven't got there yet. Perhaps Cate Blanchett. Or Jacki Weaver.
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Most men somewhere in their psyche are still dragging women around by their hair. It's terrible. I have two daughters, but even before my kids were born I always thought that it was terrible.
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If a chairman sacks the manager he initially appointed, he should go as well.
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I want to make this world perfect.
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To have a cricket on the hearth is the luckiest thing in all the world!
