Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton Quotes
If a good face is a letter of recommendation, a good heart is a letter of credit.
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There was a point where I really felt I had 'penniless divorcee lone parent' tattooed on my head.
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If you date one woman a year, times 10 years, and that's 10 women.
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Building stuff. Lifting blocks. That's how I got stronger. I never lifted weights. I just did masonry work with my pops.
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My first and only experience in baseball, the coach signed me up; he didn't tell me there's a thing called the curveball. I didn't know that. So the ball's coming at me and I start backing out, and then it broke inside. And the umpire says, 'Strike one!' And I'm saying, 'How is that a strike? It almost hit me!'
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Ask not what you can do for your country. Ask what's for lunch.
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Before swearing in new citizens, immigration officials check to make sure prospective citizens weren't on voter rolls or voted before achieving legal citizenship. A citizenship petition can be denied if they were.
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when the bank calls: 'Chase Bank, I'm self-employed, how long do you want to stay on the phone?'
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My destructive side has grown a mile wideand I question myself again: what is it about men?
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I've taken Midol before. My daughters find that hilarious. I had a headache and cramps, and there were no other pain relievers with caffeine in the house.
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I'm so grateful to be part of the Sundance family.
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I suppose that there might have been leading men who were put off from casting me as the ingenue because I was taller than they were, but I've no idea that this ever happened. When I did 'Much Ado About Nothing' opposite Mark Rylance in the West End, we used the difference in our heights as part of their relationship.
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I want to be the player who hits home runs, drives in runs.
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If publications want to publish images and stories from a certain person, they should put that person on assignment, cover his or her expenses, make sure they have access to security briefings and experts, someone to administer first aid, etc.
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Sometimes our greatest strengths are also our greatest weaknesses.
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My mother's death put me in touch with my most savage self. As I've grown up and come to terms with her death and accepted it, the pieces of her that I keep don't exist materially.
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As the saying goes, I want to be the best-looking corpse there is.
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If it seems a childish thing to do, do it in remembrance that you are a child.
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Black culture is a fight. We want to hold on to what we are, but sometimes the things that we are can be totally negative. You have to think: can't we try something new and not be seen as suspect?
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For me 'Submarine', is probably one of the most important things I've done and it will always remain the closest thing to my heart. It was an amazing experience and it really changed things for me after I'd finished filming it because of the people on it.
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Christmas... is not an external event at all, but a piece of one's home that one carries in one's heart.
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Fear is a manipulative emotion that can trick us into living a boring life.
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It is the active exercise of our faculties in conformity with virtue that causes happiness, and the opposite activities its opposite.
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My style is ever evolving. My style is tomorrow.
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If a good face is a letter of recommendation, a good heart is a letter of credit.
