Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton Quotes
Imitation, if noble and general, insures the best hope of originality.
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Blackness is a state of mind, and I identify with the black community. Mainly, because I realized, early on, when I walk into a room, people see a black woman, they don't see a white woman. So out of that reason alone, I identify more with the black community.
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It's no easy task to either make money online as a publisher or to advertise your product in a world where attention is so fleeting and divided.
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The blessing of being able to write music and let music speak for itself is you let the melodies and let the lyrics and the groove talk to people instead of me talking to people.
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I need this wild life, this freedom.
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I do all these various activities like painting and writing, comedy and films probably because not that I'm good at everything but because I'm not good at any of these things.
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Whatever requires an undue amount of thought or trouble or involves a large expenditure of effort and causes our whole life to revolve, as it were, around solicitude for the flesh must be avoided by Christians.
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People's ideas and fears can make them small but they cannot make you small. People's prejudices can diminish them but they cannot diminish you. Small-minded people can think they determine your worth. But only you can determine your worth.
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You have to understand that I'm not just some guy who voices characters in animated movie and TV shows.
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Coming out was crucial to changing attitudes about gays and lesbians: will people feel differently about abortion if they know their mother, their aunt, or their friend had one?
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Just as the Supreme Court has said that women have the right to choose whether or not to be parents, men should also have that right.
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What I haven't apologised for is the original concept of seeking to bring justice to all South Africans through the concept of nation states.
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Although usury is itself a form of credit in its bourgeoisified form, the form adapted to capital, in its pre-bourgeois form it is rather the expression of the lack of credit.
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As the man, so his God
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He drew a circle that shut me out - Heretic, rebel, a thing to flout. But Love and I had the wit to win: We drew a circle that took him in.
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I would never say anything's over forever. How could you possibly know how you feel? How could you shut the door on anything?
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You may come and go, but the real test is to see how long one can manage to stay in the game.
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Each person has a literature inside them.
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New situations requiring closer contact with the rabbit had been gradually introduced and the degree to which these situations were avoided, tolerated, or welcomed, at each experimental session, gave the measure of improvement.
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I remember a period where my publisher said to me, 'Look, your historical work is selling much better than your contemporary work, so please give us more historicals.'
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Because of my Buddhist practice, I'm never lacking for inspiration.
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When I look at the world I'm pessimistic, but when I look at people I am optimistic.
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The gamble of literature is that I make the best work I can; the most truthful, the most representative of how I see things. I try and do that, and then I put it out there and say to you, 'What do you think?' I hope that you think well of it, obviously.
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Imitation, if noble and general, insures the best hope of originality.
