Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton Quotes
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Still to this day, I don't know when I write something whether it's good or not.
Watt Key
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The conventional wisdom is that if you are gay, you cannot play the romantic straight lead in a movie.
Ian Mckellen
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I'm not super, super religious. If this is okay to say, I'm more culturally Jewish.
Abbi Jacobson
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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.
Yoko Ono
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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.
Galina Vishnevskaya
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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!'
Samantha Barks
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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.
Gary Neville
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I am drawn to intimate, often uncomfortable portraits of a woman persevering and awakening.
Vera Farmiga
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I often look at places and kind of mentally convert them to fantasy versions of themselves.
Samantha Shannon
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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.
Rachel Maddow
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There are no easy solutions for Israel's own governance problems.
Edgar Bronfman, Sr.
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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.'
Dan Jenkins
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You don't know who wants you for you, who wants you for the money, who wants you for the fame. You have no idea. And how would you know? There's no way.
J. J. Watt
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The things which ... are esteemed as the greatest good of all ... can be reduced to these three headings, to wit : Riches, Fame, and Pleasure. With these three the mind is so engrossed that it cannot scarcely think of any other good.
Baruch Spinoza
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In the midst of all dwells the Sun. For who could set this luminary in another or better place in this most glorious temple, than whence he can at one and the same time brighten the whole.
Nicolaus Copernicus
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Al Jazeera is not a tool of revolution. We do not create revolutions. However, when something of that magnitude happens, we are at the center of the coverage.
Wadah Khanfar
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Going to a restaurant is one of my keenest pleasures. Meeting someplace with old and new friends, ordering wine, eating food, surrounded by strangers, I think is the core of what it means to live a civilised life.
Adam Gopnik
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He who writes prose builds his temple to Fame in rubble; he who writes verses builds it in granite.
Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
