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In the U.K., working-class lives are depicted with the characters' humour, but in the U.S., people with difficulties are often depicted with pious or simply dreary lives.

~Debra Granik

Topics: Characters Depicted Difficulties Dreary Humour Lives Often People Pious Simply Working-Class

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I know for myself how the fruits of the gospel of Jesus Christ can transform lives from the ordinary and dreary to the extraordinary and sublime.

~Dieter F. Uchtdorf

Topics: Christ Dreary Extraordinary Fruits Gospel How Jesus Jesus Christ Know Lives Myself Ordinary Sublime Transform

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Once upon a midnight dreary, while I pondered weak and weary.

~Edgar Allan Poe

Topics: Dreary Midnight Once Weak Weary While

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What I want to bring back to superheroes with this project is a sense of play. Things have gotten so dreary. The heroes have gotten so ugly that even their muscles have muscles.

~Frank Miller

Topics: Back Bring Dreary Even Gotten Heroes Muscles Play Project Sense Superheroes Things Ugly Want

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It has been said that idleness is the parent of mischief, which is very true; but mischief itself is merely an attempt to escape from the dreary vacuum of idleness.

~George Borrow

Topics: Attempt Been Dreary Escape Idleness Itself Merely Mischief Parent Said True Vacuum Very Which

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What makes life dreary is the want of a motive.

~George Eliot

Topics: Dreary Life Makes Motive Want

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