Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton Quotes

The heart of a girl is like a convent--the holier the cloister, the more charitable the door.

Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

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• Think of an economy where people could be an artist or a photographer or a writer without worrying about keeping their day job in order to have health insurance.

  

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• I never wear matching socks. It's kind of a thing that I have!

  

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• Winning the peace is harder than winning the war.

  

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• In many ways, anger is a misdirected plea for love.

  

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• 'The Outsiders' died on the vine being sold as a drugstore paperback.

  

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• It's enough to make a small shift within and a small action in the world. Collectively these have a huge effect.

  

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• It is not necessary that whilst I live I live happily; but it is necessary that so long as I live I should live honourably.

  

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• Being a pop star is something I don't think I'm very good at. I'm worried it's making me too paranoid, because all of a sudden, life has become this constant assessment. When you put something out there and people get to hear it, then those people react to it, socially, culturally.

  

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• It's what Shakespeare's mission was - to illuminate our thoughts and struggles and bring about the possibility of getting the most we can out of a day as opposed to least in this brief moment we're here.

  

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• I dropped out of NYU, moved out of my parent's house, got my own place, and survived on my own. I made music and worked my way from the bottom up.

  

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• I wasn't, like, this top model; I was quietly doing my work, and when I became an actress, people started doing research, and everybody found out. People dug out photos, and suddenly people became interested - but no one was interested in my photos when I was a model.

  

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• Every revolution, bloody or not, has two phases. The first phase is defined by the struggle for freedom, the second by the struggle for power and revenge on the votaries of the ancien regime.

  

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• Auditions are not a natural environment, and you feel judged, even though everyone is just excited to find the right person.

  

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• I am an inventor of music.

  

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• All bad qualities centre round the ego. When the ego is gone, Realisation results by itself. There are neither good nor bad qualities in the Self. The Self is free from all qualities. Qualities pertain to the mind only.

  

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• Its appearance is constantly changing. It might sound strange to say this of an inanimate building, but every time you see the Taj, it looks different. The color of its white marble changes throughout the day, from the waxy yellow at dawn through to the pastel blue-gray of a full moon.

  

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• This is a medical service. It always was.

  

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• There's always going to be an element of pressure when you walk on the stage.

  

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• My mom's an angel, bless her heart, for everything I put her through.

  

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• It's quite stressful knowing that every time you walk out the door, someone is going to be giving you a very good look up and down, judging everything you wear.

  

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• I would encourage anybody struggling with their sexuality to go with their heart. If it's not an appropriate time, there will be one later. Never, ever try to rush into anything - do it in your own time.

  

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• The heart of the jealous knows the best and most satisfying love, that of the other's bed, where the rival perfects the lover's imperfections.

  

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• The heart of a girl is like a convent--the holier the cloister, the more charitable the door.

  

  Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
  • Heart
  • Girl
  • Door