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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• In a coma, you don't dream,you just hope that someone sits with you.

  

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• All religions promise a reward for excellences of the will or heart, but none for excellences of the head or understanding.

  

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• Our flag is not just one of many political points of view. Rather, the flag is a symbol of our national unity.

  

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• Tin soldiers and Nixon's comin'.We're finally on our own.This summer I hear the drummin'.Four dead in Ohio.

  

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• In fine, a life of good or evil, the hope of Heaven or the despair of Hell, Faustus stands as a reminder that the choice between these two absolutes also falls to us.

  

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• And yet these things for which we should strive eagerly, things so closely akin to ourselves, so truly our own, we treat with great slackness and constant indifference and thus destroy the germs of excellence, while those things in which deficiency were a merit we desire with an insatiable yearning.

  

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• You need good coaches with a good gym that teach you the essentials, like boxing, kickboxing, wrestling, and pretty much all the stuff that you need to be successful in MMA.

  

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• There are things I am more interested in than the clone thing. How are they trying to find their place in the world and make sense of their lives? To what extent can they transcend their fate? As time starts to run out, what are the things that really matter?

  

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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