Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton Quotes
A fresh mind keeps the body fresh. Take in the ideas of the day, drain off those of yesterday.
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When I decide I want something, I go in like an Exocet missile.
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Life is a great university for the unfolding of the mind, for developing character. In choosing our life work, when we are free to choose, we should remember this, and choose that which will call the biggest man or woman out of us and not that from which we can coin the most dollars.
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Women are the strong people in this world, not men. I think TV is finally catching up with that reality, and thank God.
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I weirdly feel very natural, in the physicality that comes my way, whether it's guns, cars or whatever. For some reason, it's second nature to me.
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There are no large-scale original musicals being made right now. They're all Broadway adaptations and jukebox musicals or catalog musicals, and they just don't interest me as much.
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A fallen lighthouse is more dangerous than a reef.
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I've always wanted to do a boxing movie.
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The importance of certain problems concerning the facts will be inherent in the structure of the system.
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I've got a song on every album, two songs as a matter of fact on every album without Auto-Tune, and that's the song that nobody talks about. It's weird.
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We grew up listening to alternative music from the '90s, and there was no shame in being on a major label and still making the music you wanted to make. I feel like rap rock came around and drew a line in the sand, and everybody that was like me ran away from that and started making indie-rock.
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It just so happens that my oldest and best friend is Bob James, the Grammy-winning great jazz pianist!
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Whatever is said about roles drying up, I intend to keep working. Certainly now the roles couldn't be more interesting - playing mothers, divorcees. I think it's going to be exciting to play a mother of teenagers. The longer your life, the deeper it gets.
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I always wanted to be a singer, but none of my friends thought I could sing.
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Pero la vida es corta:viviendo, todo falta;muriendo, todo sobra.
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We have found a strange foot-print on the shores of the unknown. We have devised profound theories, one after another, to account for its origins. At last, we have succeeded in reconstructing the creature that made the footprint. And lo! It is our own.
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The true value of a human being is determined primarily by the measure and the sense in which he has attained to liberation from the self.
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So now my road map has changed and I don't have a really clear idea of what the next stops are.
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You've got to find ways to breathe while you're dancing so that when it comes time for you to stop and sing again, you have it. To prepare, I do a lot of aerobic activity. Many times at the gym, people will look at me because I'll be on the treadmill humming.
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What do you mean by communal? If I speak against the terrorism, is it communal?
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I was trying to make art that my son could look on in the future and would realize I was thinking about him very much during these times... that he can look and see my dad's thinking about me, but to also embed in these things something that is bigger than all of us.
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I believe that of all the things I have done, exciting though many of them have been, there's no doubt in my mind that the most worthwhile have been the establishing of schools and hospitals, and the rebuilding of monasteries in the mountains.
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All the accoutrements that distinguish us from animal existence were put in place when we had a different kind of mind than we have now. We didn't have a mind that favored role specialization, and male dominance, and anxiety over female sexual activity related to feelings of male ownership. That all came later.
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A fresh mind keeps the body fresh. Take in the ideas of the day, drain off those of yesterday.
