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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Durmiendo sueño lo que despierto sueño. Y mi soñar es continuo.
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The future of network marketing is unlimited. There's no end in sight. It will continue to grow because better people are getting into it . . . soon, it will be one of the most respected business methods in the world.
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I don't like it when people spout about the popular opinion just to make it louder.
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The best comedy audiences in the country and this is tried and true, I'm not just saying it, in my opinion are Boston, Atlanta, and Chicago.
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I was raised with those principals and values and ethics that came out of the men and women that served. But this generation doesn't quite know; they haven't been tested.
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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.
