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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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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Each person's greatest room for growth is in the areas of his or her greatest strength.
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At some point in the next century the number of invented languages will probably overtake the number of surviving natural languages.
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Hype tends to precede the reality in biotech, but the reality does follow. Usually.
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A story is not only meaning, it's music as well.
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When you're good at controlling your own emotions, you can disguise your true feelings. When you know what others are feeling, you can tug at their heartstrings and motivate them to act against their own best interests.
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I think being eclectic is bad when you're just starting out.
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You know There are moments when silence, prolonged and unbroken, More expressive may be than all words ever spoken.
