Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton Quotes
Every man who observes vigilantly and resolves steadfastly grows unconsciously into genius.
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I am what I am and I'm a horrible liar. I can't do it. I'm just very candid.
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Live performances always feel like such a moment with all of the costumes and theatrics.
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I never did a dirty armpit. You can look dirty, but you can't be dirty.
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I did a lot of things as a Muslim that I am sorry for now.
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Manhattan seems pretty developed, you know what I mean? Like, it has peaked in culture.
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I decided to build a studio in my house. We built it in my basement kitchen. I had the drummer up by the fish tank. I was in the toilet singing. The bass player was out by the shelves in the living room, and the guitarist was on the couch by the telly.
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Because there is something helpless and weak and innocent - something like an infant - deep inside us all that really suffers in ways we would never permit an insect to suffer.
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I've always been intimidated by the technicalities of taking photos, especially with a film camera - not just a point and shoot.
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It is impossible, in my mind, to distinguish between the refusal to receive a petition, or its summary rejection by some general order, and the denial of the right of petition.
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Start your diet during a period of optimism and happiness.
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Music in movies is all about dissonance and consonance, tension and release.
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It's a basic tenet you learn at drama school. If you're playing someone evil, you can't make an objective moral judgment. You've got to get inside the character and empathize as much as possible.
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All his faults are such that one loves him still the better for them.
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Maybe I should try singing like a man.
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I guess something that I've noticed from American acts who had success in touring is more of an explanation as to their music. Which is I think quite funny. I think British acts might like to leave more to the imagination - maybe a bit more obscure perhaps - a bit more shy.
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If I was on a 'Modern Family' kind of show, and they said, 'You have to say that the burger is $5.55; Have a good day!'... I could do that!
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I think Whitman more than any other poet possessed the gift of revealing to others the beauty of everything around us, the beauty of nature, the beauty of human beings.
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Don't believe everything you read.
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I think a 'no' vote is giving the victor, whoever that may be, the win without your participation.
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The problem of how we finance the welfare state should not obscure a separate issue: if each person thinks he has an inalienable right to welfare, no matter what happens to the world, that's not equity, it's just creating a society where you can't ask anything of people.
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It's usually when the cameras leave that the support leaves as well.
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Nothing is so beautiful as spring - when weeds, in wheels, shoot long and lovely and lush; Thrush's eggs look little low heavens, and thrush through the echoing timber does so rinse and wring the ear, it strikes like lightning to hear him sing.
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Every man who observes vigilantly and resolves steadfastly grows unconsciously into genius.
