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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In his thoughtful essay about Taniyama, Shimura made this striking comment: Though he was by no means a sloppy type, he was gifted with the special capability of making many mistakes, mostly in the right direction. I envied him for this, and tried in vain to imitate him, but found it quite difficult to make good mistakes.
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The drummer is stereotypically the dumb guy. Maybe that's why I always respect drummers who do more than drum.
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'Crime Story' was where I learned that I needed to get to know every crew member: what they did and what their names were and who their families were and whatever things they would give me.
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Once you're heterosexual and comfortable with that, you don't need to take out an announcement every day.
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Change is overrated.
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Centuries roll, customs change, but, ever since the time of the earliest mother, woman yearns to be the soother.
