Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton Quotes
How little praise warms out of a man the good that is in him, as the sneer of contempt which he feels is unjust chill the ardor to excel.
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There is no sense in making a film that no-one will go and see, just to create a perfect, but useless, work of art.
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My greatest regret is selling my company.
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Traditional matter must be glorified, since it would be easier to listen to the re-creation of familiar stories than to quite new and unexpected things; the listeners, we must remember, needed poetry chiefly as the re-creation of tired hours.
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When I was a kid, I wanted a Chanel bob and bangs. My mom said no. I went to the salon anyway, and they said, 'No way - we are not going to do that to your hair.' So I did it myself. Big mistake. Instead of my bangs going down straight, they were sticking up like a cat. It was horrible.
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There's this wonderful first assistant and he'll be saying, 'Now Harry goes down among the dragons.' You have to hold yourself together. Because if you lose it for a second then you're sunk.
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Thanks to President Obama for joining a unanimous Congress and signing S 2195 into law.
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I get half a million just to show up at parties. My life is, like, really, really fun.
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It's not like I'm sitting at home coming up with some secret beauty plan.
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I don't think that coming from a privileged background makes you this monster who doesn't feel things.
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Life is rough for a lot of people. Some people live in greater material circumstances than others, but life is rough for everybody.
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The soul is a very perfect judge of her own motions, if your mind doesn't dictate to her.
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Rewards and punishments, to speak frankly, are the desk of the soul, that is, a means of enslaving a child's spirit, and better suited to provoke than to prevent deformities.
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I believe one of the reasons we went through such a remarkable growth period was that we had this atmosphere of free discussion.
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The essence of the independent mind lies not in what it thinks, but in how it thinks.
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As a Senator I am opposed to duelling. As Ben. Wade, I recognize the code.
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I had a dialect coach to get an American accent, and then another dialect coach to come off it a bit. There is something deep and mysterious in the voice when it isn't too high-pitched American.
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I started in movies in 1963, and the first big one was 'Rosemary's Baby' in 1967. While you don't notice it right away, it finally dawns on you that 80% of the time, you're doing nothing.
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I mean, I'm new but I've always been very interested in film making process and I've been lucky enough to work with film makers in my past that have been very encouraging to let me hang around. I get so emotionally vested - that the producer part of me was natural.
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And as part of my activity there, he had indicated he wanted me to work with him on that and conduct the various technical tests. And so a few months later I moved from Southern California up to the Monterey Peninsula where I still live today.
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People always make war when they say they love peace.
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I was obsessed with Val McDermid's Tony Hill and Carol Jordan books, delightfully twisted stuff.
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There's good and bad in everybody. I wasn't looking for the good, or looking for the bad. This is a man who signed his pact with the devil 20 years ago, and he's learned to live with it. He's tried to protect his family from it.
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'Alien' is a great movie. So is 'Close Encounters.' But I'm not the guy who goes out to the science-fiction festival. '2001's good.
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How little praise warms out of a man the good that is in him, as the sneer of contempt which he feels is unjust chill the ardor to excel.
