Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton Quotes
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From the catbird seat, I've found poetry to be the necessary utterance it has always been in America.
Natasha Trethewey
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I think the reason why people have trouble fighting me is because I don't come from a specific background, and they can't prepare to fight me. I come in, and I push the pace, and I think that pushes a lot of people off their game, as much as I push the pace through the whole fight.
Paige VanZant
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Nothing does more to activate Christian divisions than talk about Christian unity.
Conor Cruise O'Brien
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Before I went to jail, I was active in politics as a member of South Africa's leading organization - and I was generally busy from 7 A.M. until midnight. I never had time to sit and think.
Nelson Mandela
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Every opportunity that comes your way, you can't take lightly. You have to take it very, very seriously, because the opportunities are limited. If you want to keep working, you can't be such an elitist, to say no, that's not good enough, not big enough, not smart enough, whatever.
Chris Klein
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Happiness is working with Jack Lemmon.
Billy Wilder
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It's important to the world to see superheroes that are spread across our demographic.
Adrian Younge
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I know I am at the end. I shall never get better, dear.
Lillie Langtry
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The final group, on Sunday at the Masters, is the greatest feeling in the world for a professional golfer.
Phil Mickelson
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One of the great perks of being an actor is you're only as smart as the job you're in, you know, and you're only as informed as the job you're in, and you do become an expert, and you read all the books, but then there's a part of, like, you move on.
Amy Ryan
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In 2013, Maryland had the second highest job creation rate of any state in the Mid Atlantic region - faster than both Pennsylvania and Virginia.
Martin O'Malley
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I was born at a bad time for Spain, but a really good one for cinema.
Pedro Almodovar
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When I bought a collection of Tolstoy and Dostoyevsky, I returned home with a bright enthusiasm to begin the long march into the Russian soul. Though I've failed to read either man to completion, they both helped me to imagine that my fictional South Carolina was as vast a literary acreage as their Russia.
Pat Conroy
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My parents sold my childhood home, and I literally was 35 years old, but I cried for, like, two and a half weeks. Like, openly wailed.
Jessica St. Clair
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Suspicion is not less an enemy to virtue than to happiness; he that is already corrupt is naturally suspicious, and he that becomes suspicious will quickly be corrupt.
Joseph Addison
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The truth is, most of those female stories that are contending for Oscars are directed by men. Let's be honest. I looked at the 44 Oscar contenders in Variety that someone wrote up - there was not one directed by a woman. All the ones that were getting an Oscar pitch with the money and everything behind them were by men.
Catherine Hardwicke
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There's so many things that mattered so much in my 20s and 30s that don't matter now.
Candace Bushnell
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There is no past, as long as books shall live. Books make the past our heritage and our home.
Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
