Charles Dickens Quotes
'No one is useless in this world,' retorted the Secretary, 'who lightens the burden of it for any one else.'
Quotes to Explore
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We keep, in science, getting a more and more sophisticated view of our essential ignorance.
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I'm an actor, and I like having attention, I guess. There's a reason I like being on stage. There's a reason I like being in front of a camera. It's that interaction.
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Our party, I can tell you, is very transparent; we believe in our credentials. Our credentials are our only credibility; we are not going to compromise on that; we are the commoners.
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I can't imagine playing a boring gig. Like, a boring audience without reaction, I will play against them.
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I get homesick.
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I have only got down on to paper, really, three types of people: the person I think I am, the people who irritate me, and the people I'd like to be.
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Sometimes, I find that just the simplest, cleanest things that are intelligently performed are funniest to me.
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'EIla Enchanted' began in a marvelous writing course at New York City's The New School.
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Conflict is very much a state of mind. If you're not in that state of mind, it doesn't bother you.
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The basic right to quality and affordable health care is under assault by Donald Trump and Republicans in Washington.
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In the Depression we had to divert corn acreage.
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You learn from the things that happen in your career. You get up and down. You never give up. All the things that happened in my career, thank God it happened early rather than late in my career.
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After the Soviet Union collapsed, people thought I wasn't funny anymore.
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Honestly, I get more recognized for 'Three Men and a Little Lady' than 'Harry Potter'.
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Why does Israel always have to suffer for others to feel bad for it?
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It's very flattering when you look into the crowd and people have made an effort and dressed in your style.
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Hemingway was a jerk.
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But I make the observation that no one of us would do things exactly alike.
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Forgiveness takes time. It is the last step of the grieving process.
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You have to believe in yourself and always strive for the best. Whether that is getting the best actor, the most talented cinematographer, or the best location for your story, you have to have the hunger to want it and be willing to do what it takes to get it. A filmmaker should never be satisfied with their work. There should always be something that they want to improve on.
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I had a really good time working with Jim Cameron. A lot of people didn't, but I did as I got on with him really quite well. For a director who spends most of his time looking down a lens or in the digitisation studio or working out some graphics, he is actually very good with actors.
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Antonio Gramsci said that social reformers should have pessimism of the intellect and optimism of the will. This means that one must have the intellectual ability to see how bad things are and the emotional ability to look forward with hope. It's a hard combination to sustain, but if you can do it, you can change the world.
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'No one is useless in this world,' retorted the Secretary, 'who lightens the burden of it for any one else.'
