Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton Quotes

It is the glorious doom of literature that the evil perishes and the good remains.

Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

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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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• Think what evil creeps liberals would be if their plans to enfeeble the individual, exhaust the economy, impede the rule of law, and cripple national defense were guided by a coherent ideology instead of smug ignorance.

  

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• The unitive knowledge of the Divine Ground has, as its necessary condition, self-abnegation and charity. Only by means of self-abnegation and charity can we clear away the evil, folly and ignorance which constitute the thing we call our personality and prevent us from becoming aware of the spark of divinity illuminating the inner man.

  

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• More particularly, having a largely German-oriented education has made me very responsive to 19th-century German literature.

  

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• The real you, the inner you, is pure, very pure. It's loving and it's magnanimous. It understands. It has patience. It is tolerant-it will wait forever while your ego trots all over everywhere trying to figure life out. It is pleasing to remember that back home there is a friend who's waiting for you to stop being silly, who's waiting to welcome you with open arms if and when you show up.

  

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• It is the glorious doom of literature that the evil perishes and the good remains.

  

  Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
  • Evil
  • Literature
  • Remains