Charles Dickens Quotes

When the time comes, let loose a tiger and a devil; but wait for the time with the tiger and the devil chained -not shown- yet always ready.

Charles Dickens

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• My personality is extremely unbalanced.

  

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• Speech happens to not be his language.

  

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• I couldn't speak well. I went to speech therapy for 10 years. And I was sort of frustrated in that sense.

  

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• I was not getting work, even after auditioning for films. So I started working in a studio as a photographer; I assisted a cinematographer for two ads. I was thinking that I will get into photography or cinematography or assist someone. But then the 'Dangal' offer came, and I was busy with the auditions.

  

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• We don't have as many managers as we should, but we would rather have too few than too many.

  

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• It is one thing to go on stage and be funny or be in a good place in your career, but for a woman, actually facing the elements in a physical way is a very powerful thing.

  

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• When I was young, about 18 or 19, I read all the Dostoyevsky novels, which made me want to go to St. Petersburg. So I went, and I was so inspired.

  

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• Virtually every society that survived did so by socializing its sons to be disposable. Disposable in war; disposable in work. We need warriors and volunteer firefighters, so we label these men heroes.

  

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• It is very, very easy not to be offended by a book. You just have to shut it.

  

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• He's really sort of the devil. He's completely emotionally detached. He has no empathy. You find that in psychopaths. It's about power with Voldemort. It's an aphrodisiac for him. Power makes him feel alive.

  

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• After graduating high school, Betty attended the Tuskegee Normal and Industrial Institute in Birmingham, Alabama, the alma mater of both her parents. My mother relocated to New York because she refused to accept the oppressive racism of the Jim Crow south.

  

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• Give a man a free hand and he'll run it all over you.

  

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• I hope everybody enjoys our input on 'Black Water' - it sure was a lot of fun getting to record it.

  

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• I'd hate this to get out but I really like opera.

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• If you give people nothingness, they can ponder what can be achieved from that nothingness.

  

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• I have a friendship with Hezbollah, and I also have contacts outside of Lebanon, but it doesn't mean I follow anyone's agenda.

  

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• I differ materially from Capt. Lewis, in my account of the numbers, manners, and morals of the Sioux.

  

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• My family is from Liverpool, so I have some of those vowel sounds, I've got the slack tone of someone from Birmingham, and then I was raised in Bedford, which is just north of London. So my accent, if it's possible, makes even less sense to a Brit than to an American.

  

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• As the last drops fell from the glass to my tongue, I wondered - only for an instant - what perhaps I'd never know. What would it taste like, what would it feel like, if that liquid sliding down my throat was not champagne. But the elixir of life. Katheine Neville.

  

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• Bass players and drummers are brothers in the basement cooking up the groove that makes people move.

  

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• I do think women can have it all - but not all women. If you take daring steps and are smart about it, you can probably have it all. But you might have to wait a while.

  

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• When the time comes, let loose a tiger and a devil; but wait for the time with the tiger and the devil chained -not shown- yet always ready.

  

  Charles Dickens
  • Ready
  • Wait
  • Tiger