Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton Quotes
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I come from the liberal side of thinking: Better one guilty man should walk free than one innocent man found guilty.
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I have three boys, so I live in a household full of testosterone.
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If you don't improve the lives of the poor, it's not charity.
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I'd started acting as a child. But I wanted to see if it was something my true personality was interested in. I stepped away from offers when I took five years off to go to college. I've only really just decided to whole-heartedly embrace acting.
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Allow children to be happy in their own way, for what better way will they find?
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The biggest difference between L.A. and Edmonton was that instead of people looking at me I was looking at them.
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I have an incredible phobia of divorce.
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Harry Potter to me is a bore. His talent arrives as a gift; he's chosen. Who can identify with that? But Hermione - she's working harder than anyone, she's half outsider, right? Half Muggle. She shouldn't be there at all. It's so unfair that Harry's the star of the books, given how hard she worked to get her powers.
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Commercials capture your attention, that's all.
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You should never feel comfortable. There is something wrong if you are. You should always feel under threat, on the edge of your seat and pushing yourself. Win one and you want to win more. It's never-ending.
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I sailed through my childhood with a complete lack of any drama.
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I am honoured and excited to be taking on the role of chairman of the British Fashion Council.
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I've always been impelled to say the truth. When I was 14, in 1954, I already wrote a gay novel, though I'd never read one. I felt that life handed me a great subject, gay life, that had scarcely been examined, and I was impelled to record it in all its strange detail.
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I missed a lot of school for auditions, but other than that I had a very normal childhood.
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Love is jealous, and ingenious in self-torture in proportion as it is pure and intense.
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I always think I love work, and I knew early on that I wanted to be an actress. Then I meet people who have truly dedicated their lives to acting, and I realise that I'm so completely in the back seat.
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There is less in this than meets the eye.
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There are signs jobs will be plentiful in the future, if we train and prepare for it. That means investing in technology, innovation, and, as much as Republicans will hate to hear this, renewable energy.
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The strange thing about Africa is how past, present and future come together in a kind of rough jazz, if you like.
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There's no such thing as a specific authenticity to what Mexico is, because Mexico is incredibly complex and varied, and the food is completely different if you travel 50 kilometers. It just changes all the time.
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I think what coaching is all about, is taking players and analyzing there ability, put them in a position where they can excel within the framework of the team winning. And I hope that I've done that in my 33 years as a head coach.
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Food production has affected the environment more than any other activity humans have engaged in. Humanity devotes more land to food production than anything else - roughly a third of the surface area of the earth, much of which was once forest but has been converted by humans into farms or grazing lands.
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I would have picked up the artificial heart and thrown it on the floor and walked out and said he's dead if the press had not been there.
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The food of hope is meditative action.
