Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton Quotes
If there is a virtue in the world at which we should always aim, it is cheerfulness.
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I aim to direct as much as I act at some point in time.
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The film I do doesn't have to be a film that only my kids can watch. My kids will watch films, but I will decide what they watch and not. My aim is to play different characters and not be stuck in a mould. Just because you are a mom and a wife doesn't meant you have to play those roles, even in films.
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If you aim at nothing, you'll hit it every time.
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Aim for brevity while avoiding jargon.
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Do not let it be your aim to be something, but to be someone.
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Virtue has a veil, vice a mask.
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Disobedience, in the eyes of any one who has read history, is man's original virtue. It is through disobedience that progress has been made, through disobedience and through rebellion.
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As far as I'm concerned I prefer silent vice to ostentatious virtue.
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Virtue has her heroes tooAs well as Fame and Fortune.
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Netflix did it right and focused on all the things that have replaced the dumb, raw numbers of the Nielsen world - they embraced targeted marketing and 'brand' as a virtue higher than ratings.
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Laugh at yourself, but don't ever aim your doubt at yourself.
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You cannot lift others to virtue on the one hand if you are entertaining vice on the other.
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Nothing can express the aim and meaning of our work better than the profound words of St. Augustine - 'Beauty is the splendor of Truth.'
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All art is immortal. For emotion for the sake of emotion is the aim of art, and emotion for the sake of action is the aim of life.
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The jack-of-all-trades seldom is good at any. Concentrate all of your efforts on one definite chief aim.
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I have one aim only: to impart a fraction of the meaning of the word now.
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Ugly reports and conversations are always available to those who would promote the sordid and sensational. None of us are yet perfect. We each have failings that aren't terribly difficult to detect especially if that is the aim.
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Always fall in with what you're asked to accept. Take what is given, and make it over your way. My aim in life has always been to hold my own with whatever's going. Not against: with.
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Many are the noble words in which poets speak concerning the actions of men; but like yourself when speaking about Homer, they do not speak of them by any rules of art: they are simply inspired to utter that to which the Muse impels them, and that only; and when inspired, one of them will make dithyrambs, another hymns of praise, another choral strains, another epic or iambic verses- and he who is good at one is not good any other kind of verse: for not by art does the poet sing, but by power divine.
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Man is very well defended against himself... The actual fortress is inaccessible, even invisible to him, unless his friends and enemies play the traitor and conduct him in by a secret path.
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Whenever you're doing film for television and you look at the budget that you have, which is much more constricted than a movie budget, you think, "God, are they going to be able to do what they say they are?"
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In every sort of danger there are various ways of winning through, if one is ready to do and say anything whatever.
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If there is a virtue in the world at which we should always aim, it is cheerfulness.
