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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Pendulation—gently moving in and out of accessing internal sensations.
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Literature is one of those realms in which giving out prizes can seem not merely dubious but positively obtuse.
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I didn't read much SF as a kid - I was a total Tolkien geek - but I started reading Samuel Delany and Angela Carter and Ursula LeGuin in high school, and I was definitely taken with the notion that here was a literature that could explore various notions of gender identity and how it affects the culture at large.
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Critics can be your most important friend. I don't read criticism of my stuff only because when it's bad, it's rough-and when it's good, it's not good enough.
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Whom are you going to dance with?' asked Mr. Knightley. She hesitated a moment and then replied, 'With you, if you will ask me.' Will you?' said he, offering his hand. Indeed I will. You have shown that you can dance, and you know we are not really so much brother and sister as to make it at all improper.' Brother and sister! no, indeed.
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It is the glorious doom of literature that the evil perishes and the good remains.
