Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton Quotes
It is the glorious doom of literature that the evil perishes and the good remains.
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My father was a lawyer.
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I moved about 45 minutes from West Hollywood, and I live surrounded by nature and the wilderness, but I constantly find myself walking around, like in the commercial, saying, 'Can you hear me now?'
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I never thought I'd be an actor.
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The most important thing is to just be good at what you do. You do a good job playing the character, and people will be taken up with your character, not your clothes.
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I spent a lot of time with a crown on my head.
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I've had completely gray hair since, like, 30.
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I want to be in the small percentage of women who don't settle for conventional roles.
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I stuff animals I find; I do roadkill. They're strangely fun to have. They're like easy-to-control pets.
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I will eat disgusting things, but only those with long established culinary traditions.
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Yeah, I like to have fun - I think that's a good way to live. I think you're better at your job if you like it.
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If we knew about the real facts and statistics of mortality, we'd be terrified.
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Let me tell you, 'The Reader' was not glamorous for me in terms of the body-hair maintenance.
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In business, the competition will bite you if you keep running, if you stand still, they will swallow you.
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'Lisa' was a film that I am really proud of and is probably hopefully going to be remade.
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My kids think America is swimming pools on the roof, screening rooms, and hot dogs. They love it here.
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Between stimulus and response there is a space. In that space is our power to choose our response. In our response lies our growth and our freedom.
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I've done a little directing, but I love acting more.
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What greater challenge today.. ..to disorder and insensitivity; what greater propaganda for integration than this emotionally intense, dramatic division of space? quote in 1943, discussing the art of Piet Mondrian
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Human nature is evil, and goodness is caused by intentional activity.
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Literature is about as unnecessarily necessarily as tableware or ironed shirts.
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I imagine as long as people will continue to read novels, people will continue to write them, or vice versa; unless of course the pictorial magazines and comic strips finally atrophy man's capacity to read, and literature really is on its way back to the picture writing in the Neanderthal cave.
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To look is one thing, to see is another thing; to see is very difficult, normally; to look is to try to see. I have looked and I hope I have seen.
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It is the glorious doom of literature that the evil perishes and the good remains.
