Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton Quotes

Archaeology is not only the hand maid of history, it is also the conservator of art.

Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

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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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• It's all part of my journey - I've done a lot of stupid things, but you learn by your mistakes.

  

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• The most fascinating person is always the one of the most winning manners; not the one of greatest physical beauty.

  

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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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• We have to honor our commitments to today's beneficiaries, but we can't solve the growing deficit and debt problems unless we are smart, courageous, and sensible in planning for future.

  

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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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• There will always be some people who think for themselves, even among the self-appointed guardians of the great mass who, after having thrown off the yoke of immaturity themselves, will spread about them the spirit of a reasonable estimate of their own value and of the need for every man to think for himself.

  

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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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• I don't know why black skin may not cover a true heart as well as a white one.

  

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• Let me add, that only a virtuous people are capable of freedom. As nations become corrupt and vicious, they have more need of masters.

  

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• You'll find my power comes from within.... and is a force to be reckoned with.

  

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• History teaches us, in no mistaken language, how often customs and practices, which were originated without lawful warrant, and opposed to the sound construction of the law, have come to overload and pervert it, as commentators on the text of Holy Scripture have established doctrines wholly at variance with its true spirit.

  

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• Archaeology is not only the hand maid of history, it is also the conservator of art.

  

  Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
  • Art
  • History
  • Archeology