Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton Quotes
What ever our wandering our happiness will always be found within a narrow compass, and in the middle of the objects more immediately within our reach.
Quotes to Explore
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All men would be tyrants if they could.
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There are times where I am trying to make the big play before I even catch the football.
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I'm potentially worth a lot of money, but I've got to go and make something that's worth a lot of money.
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What has never changed, what is always present and what is, in the end, what sustains us is that energy that I talk about in 'Like Water for Chocolate...' that loving energy. Without that, I wouldn't have had the strength to keep going and enjoy life.
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Orson Welles was lazy. He was a late bloomer.
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Environmental quality was drastically improved while economic activity grew by the simple expedient of removing lead from gasoline - which prevented it from entering the environment.
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My father died in France, and my sisters and I went over with my mum to bring back his body. I remember going to the funeral parlour in France and being given a laminated menu of coffins, and thinking, surely there is an ice cream at the back of here!
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My first novel was a challenge to myself. No one had an inkling that I was working on it.
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If I can make a dollar, I certainly am not stupid.
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It is not the mountain we conquer but ourselves.
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Disco deserved a better name, a beautiful name because it was a beautiful art form. It made the consumer beautiful. The consumer was the star.
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All good writing is swimming under water and holding your breath.
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If you asked me to seriously kiss someone on a screen, I would be very uncomfortable. But I will lick any part of your face.
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Look at people for an example, but then make sure to do things your way. Surround yourself with positive people.
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I'm really enjoying being able to do these unhinged comedies and emotional dramas alike. I'm having a lovely time. After shooting a role that requires months of crying, it's quite nice to be able to play something very different.
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I've made it very clear that building, maintaining, and fixing Maryland's roads and bridges is our top transportation priority, and it is a top priority of our administration.
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I did 'Love Letter' and 'Write Me Back,' and those were fun albums for me to do because they took me back to music I love.
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What is new is that environmentalism intensely illuminates the need to confront the corporate domain at its most powerful and guarded point - the exclusive right to govern the systems of production.
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A national culture, if it is to flourish, should be a constellation of cultures, the constitutes of which, benefiting each other, benefit the whole.
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Remember that you're lucky even if you don't think you are. Because there's always something you can be thankful for.
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The Indian Bureau system is wrong. The only way to adjust wrong is to abolish it, and the only reform is to let my people go. After freeing the Indian from the shackles of government supervision, what is the Indian going to do: leave that with the Indian, and it is none of your business.
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I believe, in a funny way, the job of the novelist is to be out there on the fringes and speaking for an experience that has not really been spoken for.
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I am the god of being messy - I'm trying to get better. I was terrible in my 20s. My kids are much tidier than I am, I don't know where they get it from, maybe their mother.
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What ever our wandering our happiness will always be found within a narrow compass, and in the middle of the objects more immediately within our reach.
