Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton Quotes
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Sometimes I play cricket, and I play badminton.
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Those men who, in war, seek to preserve their lives at any rate commonly die with shame and ignominy, while those who look upon death as common to all, and unavoidable, and are only solicitous to die with honour, oftener arrive at old age and, while they live, live happier.
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I get inspiration from literally everything and anything. I take inspiration from people, relationships, stories, and I take inspiration from movies I see, books I read and songs I hear.
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The whole story of the comfort women, the system of forced sexual slavery, the medical experiments of Unit 731, is not something that is in the US psyche. That is changing because many books are coming out.
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We set up a situation and let you interact with it and see the consequences of your choice. That's what gaming does.
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A prince should be slow to punish, and quick to reward.
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I was chosen for 'Wolverine' because there weren't any other Japanese actresses available who could speak English. With 'Batman v Superman' and 'Hannibal,' I got the roles as a result of previous work I'd done, not just because of my nationality.
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Loss of hope rather than loss of life is what decides the issues of war. But helplessness induces hopelessness.
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I would argue that Asean has been instrumental in driving both economic growth and political development, and that there can be no clearer example than its relations with Myanmar.
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I'm an outsider.
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There was one very special scene at the end of the film. My character, Zhao Di, has been sick. She wakes up and her mother tells her that the man she loves has come back from the city and had spent the day by her bedside.
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Many mathematicians derive part of their self-esteem by feeling themselves the proud heirs of a long tradition of rational thinking; I am afraid they idealize their cultural ancestors.
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There are secrets at the heart of every story; there is something that must be uncovered or discovered, both by the reader and by the characters.
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History is replete with examples of moments in time when we talk about deficit reduction and try to advance on it around the world, that is, where it leads to job losses, not job creation.
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I have a zero tolerance for sanctimonious morons who try to scare people.
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Civilization consists in giving something an unfitting name, then dream about the result. And indeed the false name and the real dream create a new reality. The object really becomes another, because we turned it into another one. We manufacture realities.
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There is no way, absolutely no way, that I would want people to stop reading the 'Odyssey.' But I want them to read it with their eyes open. To notice it and then to think what it says about us.
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Life used to be a rite of passage in and of itself. But it's not our parents' generation anymore.
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My parents were ballet dancers, and I did a lot of ballet, too, so I think I learned quite early on how to hold my body. Although I do recall desperately wishing I was shorter at school.
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As much as I hate auditioning - it's so hard and awkward - it's way better to walk out of that room and win a role because of what you did.
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esse est percipi, and he recognizes himself as being only insofar as he is perceived.
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I wish that more people, especially young people, were taught about self-love at a younger age.
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TV is where writers get to tell interesting stories. Because writers, for the most part, run television.
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Writers are the main landmarks of the past.
