What am I doing? Tearing myself. My usual occupation at most times.
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CECILIA DART-THORNTON I am what I am, I'm doing very well in my life, and I'm thankful to God for that.
LL COOL J I don't think of myself as pretty. I am what I am.
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CHARLES DICKENS Our love had begun in folly, and ended in madness!
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CORT JENSEN We were literally tearing our hair out at times trying to find this animal.
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DEBBIE MACOMBER He even played for them. I was interested in him from when I was young so it was very exciting. Char...
ALEXEI SMERTIN I believe in doing what I am best at.
N. T. RAMA RAO, JR. What's lucky about my career in general is that I stumbled into what every writer most wants. No...
JONATHAN LETHEM I like to be myself, and I don't pretend. For instance, I don't dress up for occasions; I am...
VIRAT KOHLI They look at me as an individual player. What am I doing on a run play? Am I blocking for the runnin...
COREY JACKSON Most times I depend more on my parents' prayers over me than the prayers I do for myself.
OLASOT I've arrived at this outermost edge of my life by my own actions. Where I am is thoroughly unaccepta...
ALICE KOLLER I love to lose myself in other men's minds.
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CHARLES LAMB (USED PSEUDONYM ELIA) At times I think and at times I am.
PAUL VALERY I don't know exactly what is my impact, but I can say I am doing fashion my own way.
JEAN PAUL GAULTIER I'm not a facelift person. I am what I am.
ROBERT REDFORD I am what I am. A fighter.
GORDON RAMSAY Just do what you love. This is what I am doing.
ANGELIQUE KERBER I am addressing myself - I am addressing myself to my cap.
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OLASOT The ocean asks for nothing but those
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gradually attune themselves to her rhyt...
CHARLES DICKENS That coach has no clue what he's doing. That's what I say when I look at myself.
JEFF VAN GUNDY I compare myself with my former self, not with others. Not only that, I tend to compare my current s...
KAY REDFIELD JAMISON I'm not a fighter, but in my mind I'm fighting every day. 'What's new? What am I doi...
MASAHARU MORIMOTO She had curiously thoughtful and attentive eyes; eyes that were very pretty and very good.
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CHARLES DICKENS Love, though said to be afflicted with blindness, is a vigilant watchman.
CHARLES DICKENS I like Mr. Dickens’ books much better than yours, Papa. Said one of Thackeray’s daughters.
DAVID MARKSON ... I am you... what am I going to do?"
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DEYTH BANGER What the hell am I doing...? Escape holding myself as a hostage...? I won't be able to make it like ...
TSUGUMI OHBA I've spent most of my life doing some sort of exercise, but I've learned to never push mysel...
SAMAIRE ARMSTRONG I don't think of myself as a stubborn person. I am here doing a job to the best of my ability.
ARUN SARIN I am what I am, but I'm not a thief. And I'm not scandalous.
JERRY HELLER Basic research is what I am doing when I don't know what I am doing.
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KIRSTEN DUNST What the dickens!
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CHARLES DICKENS What you are good at, you never do it free!
DEYTH BANGER And I have exposed myself to art so that my work has something beyond just the usual potter.
BEATRICE WOOD Yeah, touring can get rough some times and draining, but I always have to pinch myself and realize t...
JONNY LANG I am willing to be seen.
I am willing to speak up.
I am willing to keep going.
I am...
EMMA WATSON At my age I do what Mark Twain did. I get my daily paper, look at the obituaries page and if I'm not...
PATRICK MOORE A man reading the Dickens novel wished that it might never end. Men read a Dickens story six times b...
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ALY RAISMAN I was really nervous going into sectionals. I think I drained myself by being nervous the whole time...
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NICK HORNBY I cannot tell what the dickens his name is.
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SAM RILEY I'm tired of defending my character. I am what I am.
DANA PLATO If what I am doing isn't working, I must change what I am doing to improve the situation.
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ART MALIK At the school I attended, the clergyman who ran the cathedral school in Shanghai would give lines to...
J. G. BALLARD Don't like me for what I am.
Just like me for who I am.
ANTHONY T. HINCKS I discover myself on the verge of a usual mistake.
WALT WHITMAN For what am I to myself without You, but a guide to my own downfall?
AUGUSTINE OF HIPPO I'm completely done at this point. It came to a point where I said to myself, 'Why I am doing this?'...
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JUSTIN GATLIN I am powerful in my love for myself. The truth of my being is I love myself exactly as I am. I honor...
AMY LEIGH MERCREE I am at peace with myself.
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CHARLES DICKENS God bless us, every one!
CHARLES DICKENS from the days when it was always summer in Eden,to these days when it is mostly winter in fallen lat...
CHARLES DICKENS A man is lucky if he is the first love of a woman. A woman is lucky if she is the last love of a man...
CHARLES DICKENS It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, it was the age of wisdom, it was the age of foo...
CHARLES DICKENS Bah," said Scrooge, "Humbug.
CHARLES DICKENS Although a skillful flatterer is a most delightful companion if you have him all to yourself, his ta...
CHARLES DICKENS There are not a few among the disciples of charity who require, in their vocation, scarcely less exc...
CHARLES DICKENS Some credit in being jolly.
CHARLES DICKENS It is a far, far better thing that I do, than I have ever done; it is a far, far better rest that I ...
CHARLES DICKENS Secret, and self-contained, and solitary as an oyster.
CHARLES DICKENS Oh the nerves, the nerves; the mysteries of this machine called man! Oh the little that unhinges i...
CHARLES DICKENS If there were no bad people there would be no good lawyers.
CHARLES DICKENS Oh, a dainty plant is the ivy green,
That creepeth o'er ruins old!
Of right choice food are hi...
CHARLES DICKENS Known by the sobriquet of "The Artful Dodger."
CHARLES DICKENS