Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton Quotes
Invention is nothing more than a fine deviation from, or enlargement on a fine model . . .
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Everything I do, I go to black people. If I have a problem at the airport, I'll go to the black ticket agent. I hope they notice me because I'll get better service. If I'm at a restaurant, I look for the black waiter. Rent-a-Car, give you the upgrade.
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The world is always in movement.
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Broad-mindedness is related to tolerance; open-mindedness is the sibling of peace.
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Through travel, you discover a new aspect to your personality. You discover things which you wouldn't seated in the confines of your home.
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I've covered the White House and been yelled at by presidents.
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My biggest fears aren't with my work. My biggest fears are walking through hospital doors. Once you can face that, being fearless about your work is easy.
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The American landscape has no foreground and the American mind no background.
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You learn from the things that happen in your career. You get up and down. You never give up. All the things that happened in my career, thank God it happened early rather than late in my career.
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I may even show up behind the camera. I love to put things together; I love to give direction. I have a great eye for pace.
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I have been five minutes too late all my life-time!
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I kept thinking I was always going to meet the right man, but I never did. Kept waiting for this knight in shining armour. 'When's he coming? He's taking a long time, isn't he?'
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No great artist ever sees things as they really are. If he did, he would cease to be an artist.
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I am an atheist, and if an atheist and a pope think the same things, there must be something true. It's that simple!
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If something appeals, something appeals. I don't think I'm particularly calculated about it. I know I have an alarm bell that goes off in my head where something feels like it has no creative integrity to it at all, and it's just about making money.
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I missed my father so much when he died that writing about his life and mine was a way of bringing him back to life and getting me to sort of understand more about him and what made him the father, the husband and the man that he was, and how that made me the man, husband and father that I am.
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In my household there is an insane amount of laughter and celebration.
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Being at ease with not knowing is crucial for answers to come to you.
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Famously, Anne Boleyn was not a beauty: she was more about quirkiness and an innate sensuality, and there are a lot of references to her eyes. Which sends out a great message for women, because life is not about the aesthetic all the time.
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I think that sometimes in theater, I don't prepare much beyond going to the rehearsals.
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I have come out in favor of birth control but sterilization is a crippling of a vital body function.
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Married, you're basically part of the herd, and that makes life easier in a lot of ways in terms of social support. But if you're not by nature a herd animal, you start to feel like you're passing.
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Beside one deed of guilt, how blest is guiltless woe!
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Invention is nothing more than a fine deviation from, or enlargement on a fine model . . .
