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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They that are intoxicated by self-conceit have interposed themselves between it and the Divine and infallible Physician. Witness how they have entangled all men, themselves included, in the mesh of their devices. They can neither discover the cause of the disease, nor have they any knowledge of the remedy.
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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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Under current law, on January 1st, 2013, there is going to be a massive fiscal cliff of large spending cuts and tax increases.
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To succeed in business, to reach the top, an individual must know all it is possible to know about that business.
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I have always believed that when you're feeling sorry for yourself, the best thing to do is help someone else.
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There's no end to the inventiveness of critics, I tell you. Because they can't write fiction, they put their impulse into their analysis of work.
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Kids like us don't often have the chance of meeting a great warrior like you. Would you have a little fencing match with me? It would be frightfully decent.
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You know There are moments when silence, prolonged and unbroken, More expressive may be than all words ever spoken.
