Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton Quotes
When a man is not amused, he feels an involuntary contempt for those who are.
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The point really is that a writer tends to write a book that he or she tends to write. It's as simple as that. Of course, it's important to make a living and all that, but the main impulse as far as I'm concerned - and I'm sure as other writers are concerned - is to tell a story that I feel impelled by.
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It's not just the actor in front of the camera. And it's important to have respect for all those people that work behind the camera.
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Whenever I get to a point I'm so tired that I forgot the verse of a song, I know I'm burnt out.
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The stuff that's going on is just so over-the-top, with the banking crisis and destroying the Gulf of Mexico, and the outrage hasn't quite caught up with the people yet. But when it does, I think you're going to see really virulent anti-authoritarian kind of comedy coming out.
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You don't always have to show art in what's called a white box; you can have a kind of complexity within an exhibit which actually respects the art as well.
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I love Star City - it is my home.
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People might think writing is a hard business, but it's nowhere near acting.
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If past history was all there was to the game, the richest people would be librarians.
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O man you are busy working for the world, and the world is busy trying to turn you out.
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Writing for children, you do bear a responsibility to not include overt or graphic adult content that they are not ready for and don't need, or to address adult concepts or themes from an oblique angle or a child's limited viewpoint, with appropriate context, without being graphic or distressing.
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I love making films, and as long as I love the subject, I just have a crazy amount of passion and energy for the project.
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There are times when I'm driving home after a day's shooting, thinking to myself, That scene would've been so much better if I had written it out.
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I don't have a definition for depression. I'm productive, and that's not a sign of depression, right? And I don't have weeks where I don't leave my bed. It seems like depressed people have those.
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Writing humor for me is more like a watchful-ness. You have to watch. When you say something funny, or someone else does, it's more like you wait for the piece.
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Coming from the Midwest, I didn't know about stand-up as an art. I just thought stand-up comedians were old men in suits talking about their wives.
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I think it's a mistake to go after someone just based on looks. But I always respond to people who don't act that interested in me.
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At the end of the day, people want to see how fast you run.
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On the ground, Pakistan is the most virulently anti-American state on the planet.
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I'm on the board of directors for Peace Now, which works tirelessly between the Palestinians and the Israelis to create peace in the Middle East and we've never been closer.
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I had throat surgery. We had to check that out and make sure it wasn't cancerous. I had a polyp on my vocal cord, so I had that taken out.
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Humanity, like armies in the field, advances at the speed of the slowest.
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Cultivated leisure is the aim of man.
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The prayers of God's saints strengthen the unborn generation against the desolating waves of sin and evil.
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When a man is not amused, he feels an involuntary contempt for those who are.
