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Charles Dickens Quotes

Cows are my passion. What I have ever sighed for has been to retreat to a Swiss farm, and live entirely surrounded by cows - and china.

Charles Dickens

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: novelist
Nationality: english
Birth: February 7, 1812 - June 9, 1870

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Live Passion Farm China Retreat

I can't tell you the number of times I looked down at what was going on on the ground, or I was engaged in a fight somewhere, and I knew within a couple of minutes how I was going to screw up the enemy. And I knew it because I'd done so much reading.

Fight Reading You Down Enemy Done

A moral lesson is better expressed in short sayings than in long discourse.

Johann Georg Zimmermann

Better Short Long Lesson Moral Than

I have always said that I cannot allow the child within me to die. It's kept me alive.

Child Me Die Alive Said Within

In real life I'm very low-key. A wallflower. One of the reasons I went into comedy and acting was that I was sick of being shy.

Jemaine Clement

Life Sick Comedy Acting Shy Real

Editorials are, obviously, pieces of opinion journalism. They are not intended to be dispassionate, balanced accountings of a news situation or issue. They present a strong and strongly argued position and do not necessarily present or even take into account the opposing position.

Andrew Rosenthal

Opinion Strong Present Journalism

It is important for me that a certain depth and variety of both exist next to each other. I am very careful not to sacrifice the one for the other.

Sacrifice I Am Me Important Depth

I studied business in school, so I worked for Chanel in marketing. And I also worked part-time in an office. So I had office jobs. And then I realized I needed to get the hell out of there, just realizing there was no fulfillment.

Stephanie Szostak

Business School Hell Marketing Out

When you hear a great two-track of a performance in Carnegie Hall, let's say, it sounds like you're right there at that moment. It's true to reality. And the closer it gets, once it gets too technical, it becomes very tinny to hear notes. It doesn't sound right. It has to be natural.

Great Moment Performance Reality You

I don't like spiders at all, but I love heights.

Love Heights Like Spiders I Love

When I putt well, I do very well. When I putt poorly, I struggle to be in the game.

Struggle Game Well Putt Very Poorly

I came to the conviction that film criticism, in and of itself, was an art.

Art Criticism Conviction Film I Came

My opposition to the Vietnam War. I was the first Hollywood actor to speak out against it.

War Speak Hollywood Actor First Out

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