Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton Quotes
The Italians have voices like peacocks - German gives me a cold in the head - and Russian is nothing but sneezing.
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I'm an actor who wants to do great parts, and I've been very fortunate, for a long time, to get meaty roles, and sometimes some of them are meatier than others.
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In rural parts of China, it's like stepping back into the era of my grandfather or great-grandfather - not much has changed.
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I used to think drinking was the only way to be happy. Now I know there is no way to be happy.
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Many a man has finally succeeded only because he has failed after repeated efforts. If he had never met defeat he would never have known any great victory.
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Our goal was to show people a vision of food they hadn't seen before. So, I had this idea of... let's cut all these things in half, and show a picture of the food in the pan, in the oven.
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Not truth, but faith, it is that keeps the world alive.
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Wanting people to listen, you can't just tap them on the shoulder anymore. You have to hit them with a sledgehammer, and then you'll notice you've got their strict attention.
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Inviting people to laugh with you while you are laughing at yourself is a good thing to do. You may be a fool but you're the fool in charge.
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I would say it's always been in me to want to have victorious songs. I sort of want my songs to have a feeling of victory, but through a lot of pain. Like, you're 75 percent to the top of the mountain and sometimes you fall back to the bottom, but hopefully by the end of the record you'll feel like there's no mountain at all.
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We must always attempt to lift as we climb
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Be brave enough to live creatively. The creative is the place where no one else has ever been. You have to leave the city of your comfort and go into the wilderness of your intuition. You cannot get there by bus, only by hard work, risking and by not quite knowing what you are doing. What you will discover will be wonderful; yourself.
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People go to the zoo and they like the lion because it's scary. And the bear because it's intense, but the monkey makes people laugh.
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As soon as you start claiming you can be someone that you are not, you are crazy.
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When a language creates - as it does - a community within the present, it does so only by courtesy of a community between the present and the past.
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I think that it is always hard to find two voices that fit together well.
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I don’t usually think about things that are filthy, or unpleasant. I think about the good things, because I know they exist. And I want to believe in those good things.
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There are some points on which no man can be contented to follow the advice of another - some subjects on which a man can consult his own conscience only.
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It wasn't until I booked the role of Cyborg that I was sent literally everything Cyborg-related from DC comics.
