Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton Quotes
Men who make money rarely saunter; men who save money rarely swagger.
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I like films to be complete in their written form.
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What I love about what I get to do is that I'm allowed to create the stories that I want to tell with minimal interference by some very big corporations like Microsoft and Sprint and EA and BioWare. The advantage that these tech companies have is that they understand the space organically, versus traditional media companies.
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As a tennis player you can win and you can lose, and you have to be ready for both. I practised self-control as a kid. But as you get older they both - winning and losing - get easier.
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Curiosity begins as an act of tearing to pieces or analysis.
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I think it's really important to be conscious of yourself and the world around you. For me, that meant reading a lot and reporting.
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My first celebrity crush... I had a huge crush on 'Cheetara' from 'ThunderCats.'
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The true doctrine is that labor - systematic, effective, congenial labor - is not only a necessity, but is the source of the highest enjoyment.
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Government is the ultimate monopoly. And monopolies, as any economist will tell you, often breed complacency and a lack of innovation.
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I was excited to make my own 'Neverland.'
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Giving yourself permission to lose guarantees a loss.
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Normally, learning lines is fairly easy for me, but when you add an accent onto that, it adds a complexity that I had not anticipated.
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Books are men of higher stature; the only men that speak aloud for future times to hear.
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But then I came to the conclusion that no, while there may be an immigration problem, it isn't really a serious problem. The really serious problem is assimilation.
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γεγόναμεν γὰρ πρὸς συνεργίαν ὡς πόδες, ὡς χεῖρες, ὡς βλέφαρα, ὡς οἱ στοῖχοι τῶν ἄνω καὶ κάτω ὀδόντων. τὸ οὖν ἀντιπράσσειν ἀλλήλοις παρὰ φύσιν.
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Naturally enough when I was a young dancer, I was terribly anxious to get ahead, and to get ahead quickly. I was impatient with all those older people who talked of the long grind to the top, who turned me down for jobs I knew I could do.
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Running through things because you are familiar with them, breeds routine and this is the seed of boredom.
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My hair is very straight - people always think that I've ironed it when I get to set.
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You never get time at Working Title, sadly, to enjoy any film's success, because you're worrying about the next lot.
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For me, a child means an old-age insurance policy. I have a nurturing quality in me.
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I learned that despite having years and years of experience in math and computer science and so on, I didn't really know how to code until I formed a company.
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I love performing in front of an audience. I like the questions; I like controversy.
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If you never look just wrong to your contemporaries you will never look just right to posterity - every writer has to try to be, to some extent, sometimes, a law unto himself.
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The love of power, like the love of money, increases with the possession of it; and we know in what ruin these baneful passions have involved human societies in all ages when they have been let loose and suffered to rage uncontrolled - There is no restraint like the pervading eye of the virtuous citizens.
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Men who make money rarely saunter; men who save money rarely swagger.
