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My father read Dickens out loud. My mother would say 'We're going to the workhouse'. This to me was real. I was headed for the gruel. Simon Schama
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One of the most blissful joys of the English language is the fact that one of its greatest practitioners ever, one of the guys on the very top table of all, was a jokesmith. Though maybe it shouldn't be that big a surprise. Who else would be up there? Austen, of course, Dickens and Chaucer. The only one who couldn't make a joke to save his life would be Shakespeare. Douglas Adams
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I heard Thackeray thank Heaven for the purity of Dickens. I thanked Heaven for the purity of a greater than Dickens - Thackeray himself. Goldwin Smith
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Between Scott on the earlier side and Dickens and Thackeray on the other, there was an immense production of novels, illustrated by not a few names which should rank high in the second class, while some would promote more than one of them to the first. George Saintsbury
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Dickens had more energy than anyone in the world, and he expected his sons to be like him, and they couldn't be. Claire Tomalin
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Bo just shot the dickens out of it.
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The gift of a writer as good as Dickens is not to explain everything; that way, the reader has, in terms of their imagination, somewhere to go.
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As a young man, Dickens worked as a reporter in the House of Commons and hated it. He felt that all politicians spoke with the same voice.
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After Shakespeare, Dickens is the great creator of characters, multiple characters.
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Friesen's a tough player. She made some unbelievable shots in the first half.
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I was surprised. I thought they'd foul, and they didn't. I just tried to get a shot up there on the glass, and I put it up just right and it went down. Gerry McNamara
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I was right on him, but he got the shot off.
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I got to feel with him, I got a shot to play professionally.
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I got the shot we wanted. It just wouldn't go down. Steve Novak
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I got (Sheridan) in the air, which is what I wanted to do, but the shot didn't go in.
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I'm always inspired by other filmmakers, whether it's a shot or the way they handle tone. Spike Jonze
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I make that shot 99 out of a 100 times.
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I'm a junior, so I know I'll have another shot at him. Ryan Smith