Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton Quotes
Archaeology is not only the hand maid of history, it is also the conservator of art.
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Acting was something I always wanted to try. I just didn't know how, or I didn't know when the door was gonna be open for me to try it. But it finally opened up for me when I did 'Turn It Up', and ever since then I've been in love with doing films.
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There's a fine line between genius and insanity. I have erased this line.
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Writers should provoke disagreement.
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Acting is great therapy - you get to do things you'd normally get arrested for.
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Heaven is long-enduring, and earth continues long. The reason why heaven and earth are able to endure and continue thus long is because they do not live of, or for, themselves.
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Since belief determines behavior, doesn't it make sense that we should be teaching ethical, moral values in every home and in every school in America?
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Musical theater is one of my passions.
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Some people manage their writing by saying, 'I need to get 2,000 words written today,' others by saying, 'I will write for X hours.' Not me. I start with a plan for the book, break it down into scenes, and I know what scenes need to get written each day. If the scene takes more words than I thought, so be it.
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I get more upset at losing at other things than chess. I always get upset when I lose at Monopoly.
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Why is Iraq so easy to harm and so hard to help?
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You have a right to your opinion about the work that you're doing. An artist is as equally important as the director. If you believe that, you can work in any circumstances.
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If you love living, you try to take care of the equipment.
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Good supporters who have single daughters say, 'Hey, you need to take my daughter out.' And it's awkward.
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I range the fields with pensive tread, And pace the hollow rooms; And feel companion of the dead I'm living in the tombs.
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When things go wrong, the standard management strategy is to decide who takes the blame. This should be an underling, as far down the chain as possible, but preferably with some visibility so people know management means business.
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How could this great land of plenty produce too few people in the last 30 years?
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You can't eat the orange and throw the peel away - a man is not a piece of fruit.
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You drive past your old high school, and even if everybody treated you terribly, you still go take a look, don't you?
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We can have democracy in this country, or we can have great wealth concentrated in the hands of a few, but we can't have both.
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I know you've been married to the same woman for 69 years. That is marvellous. It must be very inexpensive.
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Whenever I'm caught between two evils, I take the one I've never tried.
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Sound is the first thing that we tune into.
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Down these mean streets a man must go who is not himself mean, who is neither tarnished nor afraid...He is the hero, he is everything. He must be a complete man and a common man and yet an unusual man. He must be, to use a rather weathered phrase, a man of honor, by instinct, by inevitability, without thought of it, and certainly without saying it. He must be the best man in his world and a good enough man for any world
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Archaeology is not only the hand maid of history, it is also the conservator of art.
