"... every little boy thinks he invented sin."
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"I know a little bit about a great many things and not enough about any one to make a living in these times."
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"The ways of sin are curious . . . I guess if a man had to shuck off everything he had, inside and out, he'd manage to hide a few little sins somewhere for his own discomfort. They're the last things we'll give up."
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"You don't have to underestimate your audience anymore. They'd actually like to laugh a little bit. So, the character came to me and once it's got its grips in you, there's nowhere to go."
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"When you had the fangs in, you wanted to be a little bit careful that you didn't actually pierce the jugular, kind of like my experience shaving Alan Rickman, which by the way neither of us want to do again, especially Alan."
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"If I could repeat my childhood, I would repeat it exactly as it was, with the poverty, the cold, little food, with the flies and pigs, all that."
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"You can't click through a book, you can't hyperlink and jump out of it. It requires a little bit more of a regular engagement."
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"Though colour may appear at first a part of painting merely mechanical, yet it still has its rules, and those grounded upon that presiding principle which regulates both the great and the little in the study of a painter."
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"Simplicity is an exact mediumbetween too little and too much."
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"My family fight, that's the way it is. We're not common as muck or anything but we do have a little fight now and then."
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"I like many different things you know so I'm probably going to experiment, and if I didn't I'd be a little bit strange and boring and stiff and kind of dead, and I'm very not that."
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"Oh, I am such a little piggy. Everyone is always mad at me because I eat so much. They're like, 'How are you so skinny?' I eat more than my husband!"
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"You can't do BIG things when you think "little"."
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"Sometimes if you got a problem deep rooted in your life, it takes a little bit of time to overcome it in that area."
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"There is a justice, but we do not always see it. Discreet, smiling, it is there, at one side, a little behind injustice, which makes a big noise."
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"In the most complete friendship there is always a little empty space, like the space in an egg."
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"I thought of the things that had happened to me over the years, and of how little I had made happen."
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"It's easy, after all, not to be a writer. Most people aren't writers, and very little harm comes to them."
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"The writer has little control over personal temperament, none over historical moment, and is only partly in charge of his or her own aesthetic."
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"What exactly was your plan here, Mr. Andrews? To just walk in and flash your little smile, no questions asked?"
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