A while ago, I did a television adaptation of 'Bleak House,' and the character I played, as far as I was concerned, had no redeeming features whatsoever. I wasn't about to try to find any; I didn't need to.
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CARRIE VAUGHN As a model, I didn't have an identity; I was a chameleon, a silent actress. I was an amorphous t... CARMEN DELL'OREFICE As a model, I didn't have an identity; I was a chameleon, a silent actress. I was an amorphous t... CARMEN DELL'OREFICE I had creative control over my character, which means if they wanted me to do something that I didn&... BILL GOLDBERG But movies as much as anything developed what I thought was right and wrong, what was honorable, wha... DABNEY COLEMAN I can tell you that you will have your hearts broken more by the people you love than by the people ... MARGARET PETERSON HADDIX I used to be that crazy person that was strict about what I did and didn't eat. I was so diligen... PHOEBE TONKIN I did swimming, gymnastics, dance, and the acting was just a small part. I didn't have pushy par... AARON TAYLOR-JOHNSON I wasn't terribly aware of Catwoman. She was a DC comics character and as a kid, I wasn't te... BENJAMIN BRATT I wasn't a bad kid. 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JACK NICKLAUS I was in a group called Wild Orchid and it just wasn't working. I wasn't being myself. What ... FERGIE I've never been a planner. I didn't know I was going to run for the State House. I didn'... NIKKI HALEY 'Stomp the Yard' was a great film. It was a great film, great opportunity. It's the reas... NE-YO I was asked to be in Vogue but I said no. I didn't want to advertise make-up. I didn't want ... FRANCESCA ANNIS I wasn't, like, pretty enough to be the ingenue; I wasn't 'character' enough to be t... KAY CANNON While I was writing 'The Last Werewolf,' I didn't watch any horror movies. GLEN DUNCAN I never went to drama school, I don't have any certificates saying: 'He's a qualified ac... HUGH LAURIE I saw women's boxing on television for the first time when I was 18, and that's when I wante... LAILA ALI I didn't know I was a good director, and I mean that sincerely. I had done a film a long time ag... JOHN RIDLEY As an actor, I felt I couldn't compete. I wasn't as cute as the leading man; I wasn't as... PHIL HARTMAN As far as I'm concerned, dance is a passion for me. I don't do homework and go to the sets. ... REMO D'SOUZA I wasn't a perfect thing at 17. I didn't have confidence. I was hunched over and real embarr... LINDSAY DAVENPORT I don't like Heather Graham. She did an interview and said, 'I didn't want to kiss Corey... COREY HAIM In Athens I was 17 and I didn't have any expectations. I was just swimming fast and racing every... LAURE MANAUDOU I didn't know a single person who had ever been there. I wasn't even sure how to spell Chech... ANTHONY MARRA I was in choir in school. I kind of just did it. I already knew I wanted to sing. My music program i... LEA MICHELE I was diagnosed with attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADD/ADHD) and obsessive-compulsive di... HOWIE MANDEL I have never had a lap dance in Tampa or any other part of Florida. If I ever did have a lap dance, ... STAN LEE I guess I just wasn't meant to dance. TED MCGINLEY I am very abnormal... But it wasn't very long ago that I wasn't so abnormal. I was very norm... DIRK BENEDICT I even went so far as to become a Southern Baptist for a while, until I realized that they didn'... KINKY FRIEDMAN My ex-wife, she really didn't like the material that I did. And that's something I regret, t... LOUIS C. K. I didn't live far from where Leopold and Loeb lived on Chicago's South Side, so I had heard ... MANDY PATINKIN I was a 'Duck Hunt' and 'Mario' guy, and stuff like that. I was never technologicall... GARRETT HEDLUND I wasn't good with authority, went to lots of schools, didn't like the fact that there was n... NIGELLA LAWSON When I was in school, I was very involved with a lot of things. I was very very active. I couldn'... FAITH FORD I was seen as a little weirdo. But I was certain I wasn't a weirdo. I knew who the weirdos were,... KATHERINE RYAN I don't think I make much of a distinction between the 'real' and the 'fantastic.... 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CHARLES DANCE Power is always a corrupting influence. CHARLES DANCE I've done maybe twelve of Shakespeare's plays. I was with the Royal Shakespeare Company for ... CHARLES DANCE We had five goats, two dogs, a cat and racks of commentaries on Shakespeare. CHARLES DANCE It's not like the spa luxury experience. It's more like an outdoor-adventure experience for those wi... LOGAN DANCE As of now you have to cross the stream on logs. It's not too safe -- not too easy. LOGAN DANCE It's a difficult burden to provide care and treatment in a climate in which medical malpractice is o... GARY DANCE There are people who feel malpractice cases go away because someone apologizes. I don't believe that... GARY DANCE It's kind of a more exciting experience with about a foot or more of snow around the springs. LOGAN DANCE Your skin will turn red if you're not careful. LOGAN DANCE Friendship is an arrangement by which we undertake to exchange small favors for big ones. 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CHARLES BABBAGE Some kinds of nails, such as those used for defending the soles of coarse shoes, called hobnails, re... CHARLES BABBAGE The accumulation of skill and science which has been directed to diminish the difficulty of producin... CHARLES BABBAGE Telegraphs are machines for conveying information over extensive lines with great rapidity. CHARLES BABBAGE The public character of every public servant is legitimate subject of discussion, and his fitness or... CHARLES BABBAGE Surely, if knowledge is valuable, it can never be good policy in a country far wealthier than Tuscan... CHARLES BABBAGE In England, the profession of the law is that which seems to hold out the strongest attraction to ta... CHARLES BABBAGE Another mode of accumulating power arises from lifting a weight and then allowing it to fall. CHARLES BABBAGE That the state of knowledge in any country will exert a directive influence on the general system of... CHARLES BABBAGE The difference between a tool and a machine is not capable of very precise distinction; nor is it ne... CHARLES BABBAGE The fatigue produced on the muscles of the human frame does not altogether depend on the actual forc... CHARLES BABBAGE There are few circumstances which so strongly distinguish the philosopher, as the calmness with whic... CHARLES BABBAGE In mathematics we have long since drawn the rein, and given over a hopeless race. CHARLES BABBAGE The half minute which we daily devote to the winding-up of our watches is an exertion of labour almo... CHARLES BABBAGE The economy of human time is the next advantage of machinery in manufactures. CHARLES BABBAGE Whenever the work is itself light, it becomes necessary, in order to economize time, to increase the... CHARLES BABBAGE At each increase of knowledge, as well as on the contrivance of every new tool, human labour becomes... CHARLES BABBAGE A tool is usually more simple than a machine; it is generally used with the hand, whilst a machine i... CHARLES BABBAGE If there were no bad people, there would be no good lawyers. CHARLES DICKENS Nothing reflects so much honor on a workman as a trial of his work and its endurance of it. So it is... CHARLES SPURGEON There is a mystique about psychiatry that people think that you have some kind of a magical lens, yo... CHARLES KRAUTHAMMER I realized that If I had to choose, I would rather have birds than airplanes. CHARLES LINDBERGH I speak Spanish to God, Italian to women, French to men, and German to my horse. CHARLES V One of the important things about temptation is, if I'm going to deal with it I'm going to h... CHARLES STANLEY A Christian has no right being in a fight unless it's a spiritual fight. CHARLES STANLEY A man can preach no better than he prays. CHARLES STANLEY An unschooled man who knows how to meditate upon the Lord has learned far more than the man with the... CHARLES STANLEY The Bible is clear that those who fail to heed the Lord's discipline - whether nations, cities, ... CHARLES STANLEY Helping someone come to a saving knowledge of Christ is the greatest achievement possible. CHARLES STANLEY In our friendships we have to be wise that we choose godly people to be our friends. Somebody might ... CHARLES STANLEY Basically, there are two paths you can walk: faith or fear. It's impossible to simultaneously tr... CHARLES STANLEY The bottom line in the Christian life is obedience and most people don't even like the word. CHARLES STANLEY One of Satan's most deceptive and powerful ways of defeating us is to get us to believe a lie. A... CHARLES STANLEY Earthly wisdom is doing what comes naturally. Godly wisdom is doing what the Holy Spirit compels us ... CHARLES STANLEY Every test, every trial, every heartache that's been significant, I can turn it over and see how... CHARLES STANLEY What if others suffer shipwreck, yet none that sail with Jesus have ever been stranded yet. CHARLES SPURGEON You have to believe in a placebo or it won't work, but if it works, it's obviously working i... CHARLES JENCKS Learning to read music in Braille and play by ear helped me develop a damn good memory. RAY CHARLES Friendship is held to be the severest test of character. It is easy, we think, to be loyal to a fami... CHARLES EASTMAN The Bible tells us that God will meet all our needs. He feeds the birds of the air and clothes the g... CHARLES STANLEY The difference between a democracy and a dictatorship is that in a democracy you vote first and take... CHARLES BUKOWSKI In the same way the sun never grows weary of shining, nor a stream of flowing, it is God's natur... 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CHARLES DICKENS There are women who can make you feel more with their bodies and their souls, but these are the exac... CHARLES BUKOWSKI The rule in carving holds good as to criticism; never cut with a knife what you can cut with a spoon... CHARLES BUXTON Iron hand in a velvet glove. CHARLES V It takes a real man to make a true confession - a Chocolate Soldier will excuse or cloak his sin. CHARLES STUDD There exist only three beings worthy of respect: the priest, the soldier, the poet. To know, to kill... CHARLES BAUDELAIRE You can repeat things because it's on a set and there are actors. But if it's a great moment... LARRY CHARLES I don't want to just add another DVD to the pile. So I think, 'Is this going to have an impa... LARRY CHARLES I grew up in Brooklyn, New York. I grew up in a very Jewish neighbourhood and thought the whole worl... LARRY CHARLES There is nothing so strong or safe in an emergency of life as the simple truth. CHARLES DICKENS When I hear of an 'equity' in a case like this, I am reminded of a blind man in a dark room ... CHARLES BOWEN We were the only black family in an estate with 1,000 white families. Liverpool being quite racist i... CRAIG CHARLES I think anybody who is racist is an idiot whether they are black or white. CHARLES BARKLEY There is nothing in the world so irresistibly contagious as laughter and good humor. CHARLES DICKENS 'Federalism', in the context of political and media usage in Britain, has come to mean the c... CHARLES KENNEDY I've always resented the force of attraction that traps me here on Planet Earth. It makes me fee... CHARLES PLATT You ask what my conclusions are, rereading my journals and looking back on World War II from the van... CHARLES LINDBERGH I would not be on the level did I not confess that I always have believed that the old Browns were a... CHARLES COMISKEY Success soon palls. The joyous time is when the breeze first strikes your sails, and the waters rust... CHARLES BUXTON The quicker we get rid of the lobby system the better for all of us. I don't think in this day a... CHARLES KENNEDY So fleet the works of men, back to their earth again;Ancient and holy things fade like a dream. CHARLES KINGSLEY I could never hate anyone I knew. CHARLES LAMB By and large, talent is in such short supply that mediocrity can be taken for brilliance rather more... CHARLES SAATCHI Go, forget me - why should sorrow, O'er that brow a shadow fling? Go, forget me - and tomorrow, ... CHARLES WOLFE I've always been slightly self-conscious as an actor, and I guess that sometimes reads as pompos... CHARLES KIMBROUGH A privilege may not be a right, but, under the constitution of the country, I do not gather that any... CHARLES TUPPER My wife and I met right down the street. Our single, 'Just a Kiss' is kind of about that mom... CHARLES KELLEY I thought it very touching to see these two women, coarse and shabby and beaten, so united; to see w... CHARLES DICKENS We said that a single injustice, a single crime, a single illegality, particularly if it is official... CHARLES PEGUY We should weep for men at their birth, not at their death. CHARLES MONTESQUIEU There is no such thing as death. In nature nothing dies. From each sad remnant of decay, some forms ... CHARLES MACKAY Those who think in Britain they can push the Brexit button and not have a bill to pay are seriously ... CHARLES MICHEL In Britain ever more, they will realize that Brexit, well, has consequences - economic, commercial, ... CHARLES MICHEL God buries His workmen but carries on His work. CHARLES WESLEY Make em laugh; make em cry; make em wait. CHARLES READE The power of administrative bodies to make finding of fact which may be treated as conclusive, if th... CHARLES HUGHES We are under a Constitution, but the Constitution is what the judges say it is, and the judiciary is... CHARLES HUGHES Reflect upon your present blessings of which every man has many - not on your past misfortunes, of w... CHARLES DICKENS There is a wisdom of the head, and a wisdom of the heart. CHARLES DICKENS At some future period, not very distant as measured by centuries, the civilized races of man will al... CHARLES DARWIN To kill an error is as good a service as, and sometimes even better than, the establishing of a new ... CHARLES DARWIN False facts are highly injurious to the progress of science, for they often endure long; but false v... CHARLES DARWIN I have tried lately to read Shakespeare, and found it so intolerably dull that it nauseated me. CHARLES DARWIN On the ordinary view of each species having been independently created, we gain no scientific explan... CHARLES DARWIN Man tends to increase at a greater rate than his means of subsistence. CHARLES DARWIN How paramount the future is to the present when one is surrounded by children. CHARLES DARWIN Economists at the National Bureau of Economic Research and University of Chicago persuasively argue ... CHARLES DUHIGG Don't be fooled by the calendar. There are only as many days in the year as you make use of. CHARLES RICHARDS There is a calculus, it turns out, for mastering our subconscious urges. For companies like Target, ... CHARLES DUHIGG You've got to take the road you need to take, and only you can make that calculation. Not your d... CHARLES SCHWAB All which is beautiful and noble is the result of reason and calculation. CHARLES BAUDELAIRE Unsurprisingly, an uninterruptible power supply (UPS) - once a luxury for room-sized computer instal... CHARLES PLATT I was an enormous fan of Dan Slott's run, and John Byrne's run was a big deal for me. I foun... CHARLES SOULE These matters having been arranged, I had a temporary awning erected near the river, and was for thr... CHARLES STURT Love her, love her, love her! If she favours you, love her. If she wounds you, love her. If she tear... CHARLES DICKENS You have been the last dream of my soul. CHARLES DICKENS I only ask to be free. The butterflies are free. CHARLES DICKENS As a young analyst just out of Stanford business school in the 1960s, I got to really understand wha... CHARLES SCHWAB My mother, at least twice, cancelled our family's subscription to the newspaper I was working on... CHARLES KURALT I'd rather go by bus. PRINCE CHARLES A leader may symbolize and express what is best in people, like Pericles, or what is worst, like Hit... CHARLES YOST Send forth the child and childish man together, and blush for the pride that libels our own old happ... CHARLES DICKENS I have made so many mistakes, and such really stupid ones, I would start blubbing away if I could re... CHARLES SAATCHI This is very true: For my words are my own, and my actions are my ministers. CHARLES II Questions focus our thinking. Ask empowering questions like: What's good about this? What's not perf... CHARLES CONNOLLY No man really becomes a fool until he stops asking questions. CHARLES STEINMETZ Success is that old ABC - ability, breaks, and courage. CHARLES LUCKMAN Watching cold fusion is like watching water boil in slow motion. First, sufficient deuterium has to ... CHARLES PLATT I took Bobby Kennedy through the delta and he cried like a baby. CHARLES EVERS The highest stage in moral culture at which we can arrive is when we recognize that we ought to cont... CHARLES DARWIN I have steadily endeavored to keep my mind free so as to give up any hypothesis, however much belove... CHARLES DARWIN Without speculation there is no good and original observation. CHARLES DARWIN The presence of a body of well-instructed men, who have not to labor for their daily bread, is impor... CHARLES DARWIN It is not the strongest of the species that survive, nor the most
intelligent, but the one most resp... CHARLES DARWIN It has been a bitter mortification for me to digest the conclusion that the 'race is for the strong'... CHARLES DARWIN ...it is always advisable to perceive clearly our ignorance. CHARLES DARWIN I am determined that my children shall be brought up in their father's religion, if they can find o... CHARLES LAMB The rigid saint, by whom no mercy's shown
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