Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton Quotes
I was always an early riser. Happy the man who is! Every morning day comes to him with a virgin's love, full of bloom and freshness. The youth of nature is contagious, like the gladness of a happy child.
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I listen to a mixture of old jazz, contemporary, pop, some world beat stuff and various odds and ends.
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I remember the day I found out my draft status. I was really floored and kind of staggered around in a daze. It just hadn't occurred to me that I could end up in Vietnam.
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The herd instinct among forecasters makes sheep look like independent thinkers.
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I found a red Oscar de la Renta raincoat, and it's the most beautiful thing I've ever seen.
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In life, there's no such thing as an unmitigated good.
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It is impossible to speak in such a way that you cannot be misunderstood.
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I'm not interested so much in collaboration. You see that from the history of my albums.
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I use the rules to frustrate the law. But I didn't set up the ground rules.
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No doubt we have to have bigger projects, bigger industries, basic industries, but it is a matter of the highest importance that we look to the common man, the weakest element in the society.
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The difficulty with telling stories about real people is you have to find a way of mixing yourself into the matter.
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Gratitude is not only the memory but the homage of the heart rendered to God for his goodness.
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I've stood up to producers before, and even a director. I saw them being abusive. A lot of people on the set are scared to say stuff when they're not being treated right.
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It is always challenging bowling abroad - you don't get much spin, bounce. You do get bounce, but you don't get sideways spin. It is always drifting kind of spin you get.
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Now that my wine has been served in the White House, why not me? Who could talk to farmers better than I? Somebody even asked me the other day if I had anything in my platform about taxes. 'Hell yes,' I said. 'Great state. But I wouldn't want to live there.'
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When you're doing a medieval show like 'Pillars,' it starts off a bit like a school play. You're all in funny costumes; you've had your coffee, and you say, 'Good morning'. Then you go on set and, if you've got good actors and directors, it takes on a life of its own.
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When in Rome, live as the Romans do; when elsewhere, live as they live elsewhere.
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Anytime you're writing stories about a group of people with whom you have limited experience, there's a lot of guesswork.
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By 2014, the war in Afghanistan will be over.
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While the average well adjusted man can make the reality that is generally accepted as truth into his own truth, the creative searcher after truth seeks and finds his own truth which he then wants to make general.
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All I hope, selfishly, is that there will be real books until the day I draw my last breath.
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I understand and accept that for the people of Munich, only the treble will do.
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Liars do look you in the eye. They do not always stutter, stammer, blush or fidget.
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I was always an early riser. Happy the man who is! Every morning day comes to him with a virgin's love, full of bloom and freshness. The youth of nature is contagious, like the gladness of a happy child.
