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• I went to meet Joe Johnston, the director, and he's charming. I've been very lucky. Most of the directors I've worked with are charming. But Joe's a particularly charming man, and he showed me lots of designs and, rather memorably, welcomed me to the Marvel Universe.

  Toby Jones

  Men, Design, Directors

  "Toby Jones on playing Alfred Hitchcock and improvising with Danny McBride". Interview with Will Harris, www.avclub.com. October 19, 2012.

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• I know [my label], in any case: a double face, a charming Janus, and underneath, the house motto: "Be wary". On my business cards:"Jean-Baptiste Clamence, actor".

  Albert Camus

  Hypocrisy, House, Labels

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• A tattered copy of Johnson's large Dictionary was a great delight to me, on account of the specimens of English versifications which I found in the Introduction. I learned them as if they were so many poems. I used to keep this old volume close to my pillow; and I amused myself when I awoke in the morning by reciting its jingling contrasts of iambic and trochaic and dactylic metre, and thinking what a charming occupation it must be to "make up" verses.

  Lucy Larcom

  Morning, Thinking, Poetry

  Lucy Larcom (1961). “A New England girlhood”

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• I conclude that the musical notes and rhythms were first acquired by the male or female progenitors of mankind for the sake of charming the opposite sex.

  Charles Darwin

  Music, Sex, Opposites

  Charles Darwin (2015). “Delphi Complete Works of Charles Darwin (Illustrated)”, p.7535, Delphi Classics

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• ... the majority of colored men do not yet think it worth while that women aspire to higher education.... The three R's, a littlemusic and a good deal of dancing, a first rate dress-maker and a bottle of magnolia balm, are quite enough generally to render charming any woman possessed of tact and the capacity for worshipping masculinity.

  Anna Julia Cooper

  Men, Thinking, Dancing

  Anna Julia Cooper, Charles C. Lemert, Esme Bhan (1998). “The Voice of Anna Julia Cooper: Including A Voice from the South and Other Important Essays, Papers, and Letters”, p.85, Rowman & Littlefield

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• It is not strange that some of our revoltes preach trial marriage: for the only safe way to marry them at all would be on trial. Until you had definitely experienced all the human situations with them, you would have no means of knowing how, in any given situation, they would behave. They might conform about evening-dress, and throw plates between courses; they might be charming to your friends, and ask the waiter to sit down and finish dinner with you. Or they might in all things, little and big, be irreproachable. The point is that you would never know.

  Katharine Fullerton Gerould

  Marriage, Mean, Knowing

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• A Fiddle for Angus is a charming tale. This is a very fine book.

  Alistair MacLeod

  Book, Fine, Tales

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• One of my teachers used to call me Prince, because I always had a way of charming myself in and out of different situations.

  Will Smith

  Teacher, Different, Way

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• Personal beauty is then first charming and itself, when it dissatisfies us with any end; when it becomes a story without an end; when it suggests gleams and visions, and not earthly satisfactions; when it makes the beholder feel his unworthiness; when he cannot feel his right to it, though he were Caesar; he cannot feel more right to it than to the firmament and the splendors of a sunset.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Beauty, Sunset, Vision

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2000). “Selected Writings of Ralph Waldo Emerson: (A Modern Library E-Book)”, p.242, Modern Library

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• On your eyelids crown the god of sleep,
  Charming your blood with pleasing heaviness,
  Making such difference 'twixt wake and sleep
  As is the difference betwixt day and night
  The hour before the heavenly-harness'd team
  Begins his golden progress in the east.

  William Shakespeare

  Team, Sleep, Night

  William Shakespeare (1793). “The Plays of William Shakspeare: In Fifteen Volumes. With the Corrections and Illustrations of Various Commentators. To which are Added Notes”, p.501

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• What's cool about Spider-Man is that it's everybody - anyone, you put on the suit, anyone believes that you're Spider-Man. That's what's charming about the character. He's anyone. He's a huge nerd that ends up being this huge superhero.

  Jake Epstein

  Believe, Character, Men

  "From Degrassi High To Manhattan: Jake Epstein Dons The Spidey Suit". Interview with Louis Peitzman, www.buzzfeed.com. December 12, 2012.

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• [Johnny Depp] a wonderful artist, and such a talented person. I got along with him, splendidly. He's charming and wonderful to work with. He's a dream.

  Amber Heard

  Dream, Artist, Wonderful

  "Amber Heard the Rum Diary Interview". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. October 27, 2011.

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• That is what I like about you, Mr. Dashwood," she said. "You are so decisive. It saves me the bother of thinking for myself." "That is what I like about you, Mrs. Dashwood," he said. "You are so sarcastic. It saves me the trouble of trying to be tactful and charming.

  Loretta Chase

  Sarcastic, Thinking, Trying

  Loretta Chase (2006). “Lord Perfect”, p.126, Penguin

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• Why, I’m just as true and honest as dirt. And I’m even more charming than dirt.

  Tamora Pierce

  Dirt, Honest

  Tamora Pierce (2003). “Trickster's Choice”, p.186, Random House Books for Young Readers

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• It's late, I'm tired, and your cigarettes are giving me a headache," I growled. "I suppose that's fair." He drew in on the cigarette and let out the smoke. "Some women think they make me look sexy." "I think you smoke them so you have something to do while thinking up your next witty line." He choked on the smoke, caught between inhaling and laughing. "Rose Hathaway, I can't wait to see you again. If you're this charming while tired and annoyed and this gorgeous while bruised and in ski clothes, you must be devastating at your peak.

  Richelle Mead

  Sexy, Witty, Tired

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• I will feast on enemies of Ra until my belly is full!” “Charming,” Sadie whispered.

  Rick Riordan

  Enemy, Sadie, Belly

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• He wasn't into one-night stands, he wasn't into scoring just to see if he could, he wasn't into acting just charming enough to get what he wanted before cutting loose in favor of someone new and attractive. He just wasn't like that. He would never be like that. When he met a girl, the first question he asked himself wasn't whether she was good for a few dates; it was whether she was the kind of girl he could imagine spending time with in the long haul.

  Nicholas Sparks

  Girl, Cutting, Night

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• Society never made the preposterous demand that a man should think as much about his own qualifications for making a charming girl happy as he thinks of hers for making himself happy.

  George Eliot

  Girl, Men, Thinking

  George Eliot (2015). “Middlemarch: (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)”, p.189, Penguin

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• We weren't going anywhere," Nick said with a smile. He was trying to sound charming, but instead wound up sounding heavily sedated.

  Neal Shusterman

  Trying, Sound, Said

  Neal Shusterman (2011). “Neal Shusterman's Skinjacker Trilogy: Everlost; Everwild; Everfound”, p.55, Simon and Schuster

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• I bet you Cinderella didn't get along with Prince Charming's friends. Oh sure, the knights and barons probably put up with her on account that she was pretty and had such dainty feet and all, but you should know every duchess and contess in the kingdom hated her guts.

  Janette Rallison

  Knights, Feet, Kingdoms

  Janette Rallison (2009). “How to Take the Ex Out of Ex-Boyfriend”, p.7, Penguin

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• A boy is a man in miniature, and though he may sometimes exhibit notable virtue, as well as characteristics that seem to be charming because they are childlike, he is also a schemer, self-seeker, traitor, Judas, crook, and villain - in short, a man.

  Robertson Davies

  Boys, Men, Self

  Robertson Davies (1996). “Fifth business”, Penguin, 1996

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• What would Prince Charming have for occupation if he had not to awaken the Sleeping beauty?

  Simone de Beauvoir

  Sleep, Occupation, Ifs

  Simone de Beauvoir (1953). “The second sex”, Vintage

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• Do you think me horselike, my lord?" Realizing the threat to his personage, Blackmoor wiped the smile from his face and replied, "Not at all. I said I think you charming." "A fine start.

  Sarah MacLean

  Thinking, Faces, Realizing

  Sarah MacLean (2010). “The Season”, p.94, Scholastic Inc.

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• I hate it when you answer a question with a question." "No you dont, you think its charming.

  Cassandra Clare

  Hate, Thinking, Answers

  Cassandra Clare (2015). “City of Bones”, p.216, Simon and Schuster

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• You on your way out?" Jace nodded. "Dont want to overstay our welcome." "What welcome?" Magnus asked. "I'd say is was a pleasure to meet you, but it wasn't. Not that you aren't all fairly charming, and as for you-" He dropped a glittery wink at Alec, who looked astounded. "Call me?" -Magnus & Jace, pg.243-

  Cassandra Clare

  Want, Way, Welcome

  Cassandra Clare (2012). “Cassandra Clare: The Mortal Instruments Series (5 books): City of Bones; City of Ashes; City of Glass; City of Fallen Angels, City of Lost Souls”, p.236, Simon and Schuster

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