Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton Quotes
He who writes prose builds his temple to Fame in rubble; he who writes verses builds it in granite.
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Still to this day, I don't know when I write something whether it's good or not.
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The conventional wisdom is that if you are gay, you cannot play the romantic straight lead in a movie.
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I'm not super, super religious. If this is okay to say, I'm more culturally Jewish.
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People don't remember each tree in a park but all of us benefit from the trees. And in a way, artists are like trees in a park.
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Wanting to be understood by an audience that didn't know Russian, I tried to paint musical pictures by emphasizing the phrasing, using voice color more boldly, and varying the shade and nuance.
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If I wasn't performing, I wasn't alive. That's the truth. My parents had absolutely no interest in the business, but they knew it made me happy, so they said 'Go for it, girl!'
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There have been times when I've reflected on my international career and just thought: 'Well that was a massive waste of time.' Sorry for sounding sour, but my best mate, David Beckham, got butchered after the World Cup in 1998, then my brother, Phil, after Euro 2000.
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I am drawn to intimate, often uncomfortable portraits of a woman persevering and awakening.
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I often look at places and kind of mentally convert them to fantasy versions of themselves.
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I think a lot of people of my generation are discomfited by the assertion of neutrality in the mainstream media, this idea that they're the voice of God. I think it's just honest to say, yes, you know where I'm coming from but you can fact-check anything I say.
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There are no easy solutions for Israel's own governance problems.
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My aunt got me interested in journalism - she found an old typewriter, had it worked over, put it on the dining room table, gave me a stack of paper and said, 'Play like you're a writer.'
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I like to improvise.
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It was a weak spot in any nation to have a large body of disaffected people within its confusion.
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Word of mouth works now, much more than ever. @-reply every single person.
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There's a certain freedom in writing when you don't know if you'll ever have an audience.
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In designing the scenery and costumes for any of Shakespeare's plays, the first thing the artist has to settle is the best date for the drama. This should be determined by the general spirit of the play more than by any actual historical references which may occur in it.
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I collect fantasy swords, replicas from films, and have them displayed on the wall as you go up the stairs.
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If only [there] really was a door and [you] could walk through it into another life, where threads didn't snarl and stitches didn't go all tight and tiny. Where people loved you and didn't leave you for someone else.
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We can deduce, often, from one part of physics like the law of gravitation, a principle which turns out to be much more valid than the derivation.
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The martyr cannot be dishonored. Every lash inflicted is a tongue of fame; every prison a more illustrious abode.
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Nothing can be more contrary to religion and the clergy than reason and common sense.
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HeyHey is my favourite app. It's like Instagram but for sound recordings, with little soundbites from people's days. We spend far too much time looking down at our phones, so it's nice to have your head up while you listen to what other people have uploaded.
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He who writes prose builds his temple to Fame in rubble; he who writes verses builds it in granite.
