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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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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Once publishers got interested in it, it was a year in developing, and it was launched, I think, in 1960. But Willie Lumpkin didn't last long - it only last a little better than a year, maybe a year and a half.
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A western audience might not appreciate 'Chanakya's Chant' because of its dependence on history and ancient statecraft. My book is a modern-day thriller that draws on a bedrock of history. My primary object is to entertain, not educate.
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My position is that serious and good art has always existed to help, to serve, humanity. Not to indict. I don't see how art can be called art if its purpose is to frustrate humanity.
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Insensibly he formed the most delightful habit in the world, the habit of reading: he did not know that thus he was providing himself with a refuge from all the distress of life; he did not know either that he was creating for himself an unreal world which would make the real world of every day a source of bitter disappointment.
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Courage is like love; it must have hope for nourishment.
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You must get involved to have an impact. No one is impressed with the won-lost record of the referee.
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The food of hope is meditative action.
