Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton Quotes
Vanity, indeed, is the very antidote to conceit; for while the former makes us all nerve to the opinion of others, the latter is perfectly satisfied with its opinion of itself.
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I've never had an audition like that before. They don't let you know about anything on 'Mad Men,' because it's a spoiler for everybody. I thought I was on the right track when I was cracking everybody up.
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Raised by an irresponsible mother during the Great Depression in the Jim Crow south, my father was on his own from the age of 13.
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The magic of landing my first role on Broadway went 'poof' in a matter of a few weeks.
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I started breaking out of my shell in sophomore and junior year.
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I am always a beginner. I only try to include different parts of life; the pastoral, the tragic, et cetera.
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Nobody is faster than me.
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Power can shape 'truth,' but not forever.
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When I began writing, I didn't read any other children's poets... I didn't want to be influenced until I'd found my own voice. Now I read them all.
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Every form is a base for colour, every colour is the attribute of a form.
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I like to wear jewellery, even though I like my look to be minimalist. When I go out for events, I like to have at least one statement piece. It always adds glamour.
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I don't care about making a fool of myself on stage anymore. I don't care what people think.
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From some dilatory reading in the early 1960s, I knew enough about viruses and their association with tumors in animals to understand that they might provide a relatively simple entry into a problem as complex as cancer.
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I do feel like I have always, in my life, been inclined to be on the outside, walk a different path or something. Because of that, and increasingly over the years, my sense of distance from mainstream society or from the way culture works, I have a different kind of perception of it.
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I don't see myself as disabled. There's nothing I can't do that able-bodied athletes can do.
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I call my balls the bush twins.
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We toast the Lisp programmer who pens his thoughts within nests of parentheses.
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There is one thing infinitely more pathetic than to have lost the woman one is in love with, and that is to have won her and found out how shallow she is!
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I am proud to say that I plastic-wrapped Bruno Ricci's toilet in his trailer.
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The people have only a very vague direct power. They have the power of voting against the administration, again after its decisions have been taken; but they have no way of getting into the question of policy-making, decision-making, except insofar as the vague forces and pressures of public debate and public opinion have their impact on the President. The President still has to decide. He can't go to the people and ask them to decide for him; he has to make the decision. In that sense he was condemned to be a dictator.
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I think at some point every actor has practiced their acceptance speech while they're having a shower. It's fun.
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Vanity, indeed, is the very antidote to conceit; for while the former makes us all nerve to the opinion of others, the latter is perfectly satisfied with its opinion of itself.
