Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton Quotes
Happiness and virtue rest upon each other; the best are not only the happiest, but the happiest are usually the best.
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To me, 'Underground Luxury' is kinda like a contrasting title, and the reason for that is because on this album I plan on introducing to people and reintroducing to people the side of me that they didn't see on the first album.
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My view is that life is too short. I'm not being melodramatic or anything, but when your mother dies in your arms - just you and her, and it's one o'clock in the morning, and you're waiting for her to exhale - you just think, life's too bloody short to argue about the little things.
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I think women are really self-analytical in a way that men aren't.
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We do not celebrate people who have made success out of serious hard work.
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There are lots of people who haven't been to drama school who have great talent and can be discovered.
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People want to see a movie that casts a mature woman across from a mature man.
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I think of myself as a mum who finds the time to go to work. I have to check myself for baby sick before I walk out of the house in the morning. I am really a mum... I know I am a great mother.
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You eat and sleep it all day long and play on the streets until mom calls you in. My story is no different than anybody else's.
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In Hollywood, you play a mom and instantly, you've got osteoporosis.
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In the absence of justice, what is sovereignty but organized robbery?
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You don't train a dog in a training hall, jerking his neck or even giving him food treats. You train him using life rewards.
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Fortunately, human forgetting follows a pattern. We forget exponentially. A graph of our likelihood of getting the correct answer on a quiz sweeps quickly downward over time and then levels off.
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When I was in the ring at the Olympics, it was my father's words that I was hearing, not the coaches'. 'I never listened to what the coaches said. I would call my father and he would give me advice from prison.
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Why are numbers so important? I take up a film I like, give it my best, and move on.
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I swam very competitively till I was 15, then I swam for fun until I was 18. But athletics remain a very big part of my life. I try to keep that as much in balance with work as I can.
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TV producers want ratings and are willing to do nearly anything to get them. They gin up artificial conflicts and create an urgency for even the most minor of economic data points.
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I'm only superstitious on the tennis court.
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I love to read books by women I look up to who are smart, funny, and interesting, like Tina Fey's 'Bossypants' and Mindy Kaling's 'Is Everyone Hanging Out Without Me?'
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To go out with the setting sun on an empty beach is to truly embrace your solitude.
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But what a voice! It was like the voice of a soul that had once lived in an Aeolian harp.
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The minimum wage should be a living wage.
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When I signed that major-label contract when I was 20 years old. I did it because I wanted to play music for the rest of my life. That's every 20-year-old's dream - to do whatever the hell you want.
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I figure lots of predictions is best. People will forget the ones I get wrong and marvel over the rest.
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Happiness and virtue rest upon each other; the best are not only the happiest, but the happiest are usually the best.
