Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton Quotes
What men want is not talent, it is purpose; in other words, not the power to achieve, but the will to labor.

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If you don't see something as a career but as an important part of your life, you don't know how you're going to feel about it.
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I grew up in the '80s. I was a kid, but all my favorite movies came out of that period.
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Honestly, since the Diane Sawyer piece, every day it's like, it's exciting to go to the mailbox... Because I get letters every day from all of these people from all over the world.
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My music is not just about entertainment. It is about enlightenment also.
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Music has always played a big part in my life and, believe it or not, in my soap opera career.
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Conversion for me was not a Damascus Road experience. I slowly moved into an intellectual acceptance of what my intuition had always known.
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Poetry, fiction as novels or short stories - these are autonomous as created by their authors. They should stand on their own, like pieces of furniture that should be judged as to their usefulness, elegance.
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I went in reverse with this whole thing. People I've toured with were kids who consumed as much hip-hop as they could. I didn't do that until I started rapping.
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I mean, I would say I get five or six e-mails every day from people asking, "Is there going to be a Leprechaun 6?' It's probably the most asked question besides, 'Is there going to be a Willow II?'
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Every actor has his own identity. I don't aspire to be Bond. My quest is to do something new, something different.
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I know a lot of people don't have their parents in their life - their mother, their father - but I've got the best two you could ask for, I swear.
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I grew up going to public school, and they were huge public schools. I went to a school that had 3,200 kids, and I had grade school classes with 40-some kids. Discipline was rigid. Most of the learning was rote. It worked.
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Aircraft are always going to be something that terrorists are interested in because you bring down an airliner, you have drawn the world's attention.
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The fact that the general incidence of leukemia has doubled in the last two decades may be due, partly, to the increasing use of x-rays for numerous purposes. The incidence of leukemia in doctors, who are likely to be so exposed, is twice that of the general public. In radiologists … the incidence is ten times greater.
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No protracted war can fail to endanger the freedom of a democratic country.
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I think that the story of a woman who is coming into her powers can really happen at any age.
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I'm in that, I guess, top 2 percent or something.
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Being Politically Correct means always having to say you're sorry.
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You have to set big goals for yourself. And you have to put aside all the negativity in your life that tells you that if you came from a certain education or a certain family background that you can't achieve big goals. That's one of the things that America has.
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If I have ever made any valuable discoveries, it has been due more to patient attention, than to any other talent.
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Politics is the womb in which war develops.
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I played a lot of real normal, straight sessions.
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My grandmother has strongly influenced my approach to beauty. She has always cared for her skin by cleansing and washing her face with warm water in the morning. At all times, she has lipstick on and her face is immaculately powdered - she follows the same routine to this day and looks great at 94.
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What men want is not talent, it is purpose; in other words, not the power to achieve, but the will to labor.