Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton Quotes
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The compulsively readable events of my life occurred mainly in infancy, and it's been pretty humdrum ever since.
T. C. Boyle
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It's so nice that there's all this new space for new, good content. It's good news for us actors, since nobody makes real independent films anymore.
Gaby Hoffmann
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My advice for writers is to get a good day job. It takes the pressure off writing if you have a job that pays the bills.
Abraham Verghese
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I was always fascinated by politics, and I was exposed to it quite a lot.
J. B. Pritzker
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I'm all about showing people that I'm a little messed up, I have a lot of the same problems you have. By exposing myself and putting myself out there, people can relate to me and my act won't grow stale. I mean, nobody wants to hear a comedian say, 'Life is great.'
Gabriel Iglesias
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Corruption exists because there is too much, not too little, market.
Ha-Joon Chang
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Housing was ground zero for the Great Recession. Between early 2006 and Obama's inauguration in 2009, average house prices fell by a third across the country. In certain areas, including cities as diverse as Akron, Orlando and Las Vegas, house prices fell by more than half.
Mark Zandi
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I was desperately unhappy with it Blade Runner. I was compelled by contract to record five or six different versions of the narration, each of which was found wanting on a storytelling basis. The final version was something that I was completely unhappy with. The movie obviously has a very strong following, but it could have been more than a cult picture.
Harrison Ford
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The only man for whom Hitler had ‘unqualified respect’ was ‘Stalin the genius’, and while in the case of Stalin and the Russian regime we do not… have the rich documentary material that is available for Germany, we nevertheless know since Khrushchev’s speech before the Twentieth Party Congress that Stalin trusted only one man and that was Hitler.
Hannah Arendt
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The imagination is fertile. From seeds of the imagination, much is made manifest.
Quentin S. Crisp
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In monarchy the crime of treason may admit of being pardoned or lightly punished, but the man who dares rebel against the laws of a republic ought to suffer death.
Samuel Adams
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Come, Death, and snatch me from disgrace.
Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton