Charles Dickens Quotes

Loves and Cupids took to flight afraid, and Martyrdom had no such torment in its painted history of suffering.

Charles Dickens

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• I've directed independent film.

  

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• The first movie my dad ever showed me was 'Predator' – I was five. And I think the second one was 'Jaws.'

  

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• I think that the U.S. does have this very much more open attitude, and I admire it very much and I think it's very important to the world. But the information and the discussion sometimes come too late, after the effective decision has been made.

  

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• I always enjoyed movies and in hindsight I realise how captivating they were to me.

  

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• Chicken and horse meat are the best foods for weightlifters, and good food is important.

  

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• I grew up in a funeral home, born and raised, and everyone was always like, 'Well, what was that like?' and I was like, 'It was normal', because it's all I knew.

  

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• In the best material, you always should be able to somehow make a case for a story to be transposed to any other time.

  

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• Sometimes you just have to jump off the cliff without knowing where you will land.

  

  Zainab Salbi
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• The idea of having a house, a kid, a husband, and a dog... I love that. I also really want to open a coffee and flower shop one day, probably in Italy.

  

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• I'm particularly interested in black swan events: unprecedented surprises that destroy the conventional wisdom about how the world works.

  

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• My mom is painfully sweet; she's from Nebraska.

  

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• The classy gangster is a Hollywood invention.

  

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• Sometimes it's nice just being in your own room and having a quiet night and relaxing and getting ready for the game.

  

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• I spent the first 25 years of my life not knowing what I wanted to do.

  

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• The leaders of Europe always seem to emerge from the same elite, the same general frame of mind, the same schools, and the same institutions that rear generation after generation of politicians to this day. They take turns implementing the same policies.

  

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• SOLOSHOT is such a brilliant idea and an athlete's dream. It has given me the ability to film myself training without anyone's help - it's perfect because I can go to the beach, set up my SOLOSHOT, and not have to rely on anyone to stand there and film me from the beach for hours.

  

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• I thought Nixon was getting ganged up on, but when I heard the tapes, I was shocked and terribly saddened.

  

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• Gradually the feeling wears off, and I feel swamped again by the inexplicable pettiness of being alive.

  

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• When I first organized the King Cole Trio back in 1937, we were strictly what you would call an instrumental group. To break the monotony, I would sing a few songs here and there between the playing. I sang things I had known over the years. I wasn't trying to give it any special treatment, just singing. I noticed thereafter people started requesting more singing, and it was just one of those things.

  

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• The story of Ilium, the ancient city of Troy, has always gripped me.

  

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• Michael Vick may enjoy watching dogs fight. Someone else may find that repulsive but see nothing wrong with eating an animal who has had a life as full of pain and suffering as the lives of the fighting dogs. It's strange that we regard the latter as morally different from, and superior to, the former.

  

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  • Life
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• Loves and Cupids took to flight afraid, and Martyrdom had no such torment in its painted history of suffering.

  

  Charles Dickens
  • Suffering
  • Afraid
  • Loves