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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I think the idea of being on stage and playing for people, and being able to inject a little bit of joy into their lives is a really exciting concept for me. That's definitely why I make music. It's never been for any kind of materialistic reasons, so that thought of being able to be up on stage, and being able to give something to someone in a moment of need for them - that gets me up in the morning; that really excites me.
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I have been complimented many times and they always embarrass me; I always feel that they have not said enough.
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My man has to be more intelligent than I am, which is difficult to find. He should definitely be more successful than me, which is not so difficult to find. I'd be a fool to expect a better looking man than me, which is impossible to find.
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The way to be a man if you're a little boy is to be willing to throw your weight around.
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Anything you make has its own wavelength and its own sound. It's like a tuning fork, until the things that resonate are correct for it.
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A man of genius is inexhaustible only in proportion as he is always renourishing his genius.
