Charles Dickens Quotes
Loves and Cupids took to flight afraid, and Martyrdom had no such torment in its painted history of suffering.
Quotes to Explore
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It took me a while and a lot of hard times to figure out my purpose, I am so happy with my life. I just want to help make other people happy, too.
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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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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.
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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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When I'm good I'm very, very good, but when I'm bad, I'm better.
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Writing for me is a dragnet that carries everything away with it: expressions and figures of speech, postures, feelings, thoughts, troubles. In short, the lives of others.
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America does not need another political campaign based on denial and avoidance of some of our real problems. It needs a crusade to reform and renew our country, its institutions and political system.
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One superlatively important effect of wide reading is the enlargement of vocabulary which always accompanies it.
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I find it disturbing that men who are products of highly developed economies come to a developing nation solely to exploit their women and their children.
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Real women are fat. And thin. And neither. And both. And otherwise.
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Loves and Cupids took to flight afraid, and Martyrdom had no such torment in its painted history of suffering.
