Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton Quotes
Centuries roll, customs change, but, ever since the time of the earliest mother, woman yearns to be the soother.
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I don't think anyone should write their autobiography until after they're dead.
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I believe that dogma is often evil.
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Concision in style, precision in thought, decision in life.
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When you watch it, you're like, Wow. I look like that. But it doesn't feel like that at all. It was about communicating with Gale Harold and getting across what I wanted to say about the character.
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I've never worked in politics, never been a member of an official committee or a political party.
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I prefer to believe it's my responsibility if a film of mine works or doesn't work.
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When the news is good, the BBC view is: 'Get the government out of the picture quickly, don't allow them to say anything about it.' When the news is bad: 'Let's all dump on the government.'
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I've met people who will go to a movie that I can't stand and they say that they saw that movie ten times. There's something they like and identified in that movie, and I don't see it.
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Afghanistan is a land-locked country.
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The weakness in traditional Scottish nationalism lay in its own inability to grasp that identity could not be the only factor in the march to independence.
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To go back, the mistake that Universal Studios made with 'Dawn of the Dead' was that they didn't have enough money or cared enough to make a soundtrack.
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We were pressured to accept kids we were not qualified to handle. And we do that to people all the time, which is why we don't have enough foster parents.
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Different directors offer you different things, and it's not necessarily the most obvious things.
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We grow small trying to be great.
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To me there is no picture so beautiful as smiling, bright-eyed, happy children; no music so sweet as their clear and ringing laughter.
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If India grows steadily and does the structural things right and carefully unties knots, builds an institutional process which sort of cleans up the corruption and the baggage in the system, I see it as a wonderful marathon.
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I was an all-sport athlete growing up. My dad, I think, hoped I would go to college on a scholarship.
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Man takes his law from the Earth; the Earth takes its law from Heaven; Heaven takes its law from the Tao. The law of the Tao is its being what it is.
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As boring as it sounds, I don't feel any different than I did before the 'House of Night.'
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At the end of the day, don't forget that you're a person, don't forget you're a mother, don't forget you're a wife, don't forget you're a daughter.
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If you don't feel comfortable in a plunging sweater, skin-tight jeans and killer heels, go home and change.
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There was a time when I thought I could change everything. I have learned the hard way that we only have so much strength: better to use it for fights where we stand a chance of winning.
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Probably my mother's life was prolonged beyond that of a long-lived family by her coming to Australia in middle life; and if I ever had any tendency to consumption, the climate must have helped me.
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Centuries roll, customs change, but, ever since the time of the earliest mother, woman yearns to be the soother.
