"One of Dickens' biggest influences was the growth of London as a Victorian city, and the extremes being created as it expanded."

-- Danny Boyle

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“I really enjoy dressing up. I'm pretty much a girlie girl.”
“He was in love with life as an ant on a summer blade of grass.”
“I put on a big show when I write something I think is funny.”
“Getting the pretty back is about getting back in touch with your essential self: the part of you that knows what you really want.”

Source : Molly Ringwald (2010). “Getting the Pretty Back (Enhanced Edition): Friendship, Family, and Finding the Perfect Lipstick”, p.17, Harper Collins
“The secret is, first, get a thoroughbred horse because they are the most nervous animals on earth. Then get the biggest gun you can find and make sure the starter fires that big gun right by the nervous thoroughbred's ear.”
“The question we need to ask ourselves is whether there is any place we can stand in ourselves where we can look at all that's happening around us without freaking out, where we can be quiet enough to hear our predicament, and where we can begin to find ways of acting that are at least not contributing to further destabilization.”
“Shallow breathing is the root of all evil but conscious deep breathing restores and secures our souls.”
“Blessed is he who invented recording! But what a pity that he was not born centuries earlier! Think only of all that we would be able to hear and therefore understand better. Oh, the unending research in libraries and museums, the readings and collations of texts, the maddening desire to know the truth!”

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