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?'

  

  Olga Fonda
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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.

  

  Dana Goodyear
  • Long
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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.

  

  Garret Dillahunt
  • Good
  • Live
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• If we knew about the real facts and statistics of mortality, we'd be terrified.

  

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  • Real
  • Facts
  • Statistics

• 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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  • Business
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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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  • Kids
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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.

  

  Viktor E. Frankl
  • Power
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  • Space

• 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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• Your best protection is to have an established agent make the contact.

  

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• I play a character in the WWE and everybody hates my character. I'm the evil villain bad guy. Whenever people meet me, they're like, 'Wow, you're such a nice guy. We never expected that.'

  

  Chris Jericho
  • People
  • Character
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• Independent of its connection with human destiny hereafter, the fate of republican government is indissolubly bound up with the fate of the Christian religion, and a people who reject its holy faith will find themselves the slaves of their own evil passions and of arbitrary power.

  

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• The more data we have, the more likely we are to drown in it.

  

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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