Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton Quotes
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To read without reflecting is like eating without digesting.
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People have their own opinions but sometimes with the media things get chopped up and cut around to make stories out of it.
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I think pink is one of the saddest colors in the world, and many American humans are taught not to take anything pink seriously, which is weird.
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I just try to get away with as much as I can. I don't think that's very radical in the art world.
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The three main sources of scepticism are first, that not every people desires freedom; second, that democracy in certain parts of the world would be dangerous; and third, that there is little the world's democracies can do to advance freedom outside their countries.
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February days are a marketing gimmick; love happens every day.
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I wanted to be a skinny little ballerina but I was a voluptuous little Italian girl whose dad had meatballs on the table every night.
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I'd love to have kids, but not at the moment.
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Tishlin’s dubious look indicated he wasn’t totally convinced this phrase contributed enormously to the information-carrying capacity of the language.
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If there is one quality that I find is more essential to a successful and happy life than any other, it is empathy. It is at the core of family stability and love. I’ve never had a couple come to me and say, 'I want a divorce; my partner understands me.'
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In my mind, I am extraordinarily handy. But what that means is when I attempt to fix something, there's usually a five-minute period of experimentation, followed by a five-minute period of frustration, followed by a frantic phone call to a professional.
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We shall see our friends again. We can lay them in the grave; we know they are safe with God.
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I'd love to play Puck in 'A Midsummer Night's Dream.'
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The world is very different today than it was in 1968.
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My songs emerge from my life, or wherever they do, unbidden and unplanned and completely on a schedule of their own.
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An image is not simply a trademark, a design, a slogan or an easily remembered picture. It is a studiously crafted personality profile of an individual, institution, corporation, product or service.
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And to Shakespeare I owe my vision of the world as a theater, wherein all humans are acting out their parts.
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Life creates new heroes, and new heroes always find it easiest to beat up on the previous heroes.
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Good musicals, a strange world, seem so easy. People say, 'Ohhh, it's magic.' Nothing's magic. A thing doesn't jell. Adapt. Change the rhythm. Shorten the scene. Rewrite the character. Maneuver the waters. Seeming easy is why so many shows aren't good.
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Yoko brought the walrus, there was magic in the air.
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The reason that 'guru' is such a popular word is because 'charlatan' is so hard to spell.
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When fundraising, your network is critical. Leveraging it early and often is the key. Don't make the mistake of waiting until you need money to engage sources of capital.
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I was Irish; I was a woman. Yet night after night, bent over the table, I wrote in forms explored and sealed by English men hundreds of years before. I saw no contradiction.
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The magic of the tongue is the most dangerous of all spells.
