Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton Quotes
You know There are moments when silence, prolonged and unbroken, More expressive may be than all words ever spoken.
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I always say three things make a writer: inspiration, obviously; perspiration, doing the work. But the third is desperation. I'm not really fit for anything else, or to have a real job. That fear drives me. The pressure has always been self inflicted.
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When I was younger, I wanted to marry early, like at 23. Year by year, I found things I wanted to do, and the thought of marriage disappeared. But I don't want to marry too late. Around 31?
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On the contrary, I'm a strong believer in the necessity of imperfection coming into the film.
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I begin with an idea and then it becomes something else.
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Thank God for the potholes on memory lane.
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Beauty is indeed a good gift of God; but that the good may not think it a great good, God dispenses it even to the wicked.
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I'm a lyric soprano. I can try to step outside that and do different kind of singing, but it's not something I can sustain over the long haul, and what is good for your voice is good for your career.
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We are hopeful that President Obama, in his State of the Union Address, will express a willingness to work with Republicans to enact all of these jobs bills.
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Most actors don't grow up with sweet, vanilla parents.
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Take seriously the traditions, the Christian roots, and all the values that are the basis of the civilisation of Europe.
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As soon as there is life there is danger.
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I don't see myself in the political realm.
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My life is full of mistakes. They're like pebbles that make a good road.
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I'm a very spontaneous person, for the bad and the good.
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When I was in the hospital, I was very suicidal in a kind of blind way, I was starving to death and just 'cause I didn't want to turn out like my family showed me, you know, that's all I ever saw of people, was my own family. I wasn't allowed to associate with anyone. Oh, God. So I didn't want to live.
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Now I wonder what our knowledge has in common with God's knowledge according to those who treat God's knowledge... Is there anything else common to both besides the mere name? ...there is an essential distinction between His knowledge and ours, like the distinction between the substance of the heavens and that of the earth.
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Every person is worthy of an infinite wealth of love - the beauty of his soul knows no limit.
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You are not permitted to kill a woman who has wronged you, but nothing forbids you to reflect that she is growing older every minute. You are avenged 1440 times a day.
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Mozart and Neil Diamond may have begun with the same idea, but that a work of art is more than an idea is confirmed by the difference between the 'Soave sia il vento' and 'Kentucky Woman.' We have different words for 'art' and 'idea' because they are two different things.
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There ain't any news in being good. You might write the doings of all the convents of the world on the back of a postage stamp, and have room to spare.
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I do not believe that anything really worthwhile will come out of the exploration of the slag heap that constitutes the surface of the moon...Nobody should imagine that the enormous financial budget of NASA implies that astronomy is now well supported.
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I have stage fright every single concert I've ever done. I have at least four or five minutes of it. It's absolute living hell.
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Unless it grows out of yourself no knowledge is really yours, it is only borrowed plumage.
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You know There are moments when silence, prolonged and unbroken, More expressive may be than all words ever spoken.
