Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton Quotes
A man of genius is inexhaustible only in proportion as he is always renourishing his genius.
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I let characters be human and flawed and relatable.
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When I do a character, I try to base it on someone I have met or an experience I've had.
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The earth laughs in flowers.
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When I was very young, I wanted to be a girl. I was jealous that girls got to be princesses and wear skirts. It tormented me. When I was 6, I even heard that you could change your sex, and I was very intrigued until the moment I realized that if I changed into a girl, I would be an ugly girl, and this is the last thing I wanted to be.
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I was mostly an indoor girl at university. Where other students did drama or music or sport alongside their degrees, I wrote. I used to work on essays and classwork during the day and 'The Bone Season' in the evenings.
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I would spend hours absorbing every intonation, every inflection - how the singer would convey a sentiment and how it would sound coming out of their head. All of those things I very carefully watched and absorbed, and so I guess I was studying my whole life, although not in any sort of conventional way.
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There are a lot of grotesqueries in politics, not the least of which is the fund-raising side.
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The best time to expand is when people are asleep at the wheel.
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Sometimes, indeed, there is such a discrepancy between the genius and his human qualities that one has to ask oneself whether a little less talent might not have been better.
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You can't take yourself too seriously; it's important to poke fun at yourself. Once in a while, it is great to show your inadequacies, too.
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We shelter children for a time; we live side by side with men; and that is all. We owe them nothing, and are owed nothing. I think we owe our friends more, especially our female friends.
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In the end, I think part of my problem was that I was a better legislator than I was a politician.
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I can't be disappointed with my first gold in a senior championship, and to score 5000 points, which only one other woman, the world record holder, has got over, I am satisfied.
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If you get depressed, you can be stuck for months; if you have an analyst, you at least have a chance of getting out of it faster.
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I'm pretty unusual for an actress in Hollywood because I am totally unselfconscious about my body.
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Well, youth is the period of assumed personalities and disguises. It is the time of the sincerely insincere.
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Elegance is not a dispensable luxury but a factor that decides between success and failure.
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And the idea of just wandering off to a cafe with a notebook and writing and seeing where that takes me for awhile is just bliss.
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A friend is another I.
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I cannot salute the flag; I know that I am a black man in a white world. In 1972, in 1947, at my birth in 1919, I know that I never had it made.
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There is no such thing as an evil genius, as evil in it's self is stupidity.
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People think of me and think, 'Ibiza and hippy look.' I'm trying to expand.
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A man of genius is inexhaustible only in proportion as he is always renourishing his genius.
