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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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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The essayist … can pull on any sort of shirt, be any sort of person, according to his mood or his subject matter - philosopher, scold, jester, raconteur, confidant, pundit, devil's advocate, enthusiast...
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'This fellow,' he indicated the woodsman with a sweep of his stick, 'will reliably not become more alive, but he may have friends or family who will be unsettled to find him so extremely dead.'
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I thought I was a sexy symbol!
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Evolution teaches us the original purpose of language was to ritualize men's threats and curses, his spells to compel the gods; communication came later.
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On a scale of 1 to 10, I was a 12.
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Too much emotion is like none at all.
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It is the glorious doom of literature that the evil perishes and the good remains.
