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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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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There's a hunger in me that always wants to be creating and orating, telling people something and giving them information and getting feedback. There are so many questions that I'm trying to ask, and I'm still so far from being done saying what I gotta say.
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I mourn the fact that my beautiful country has deteriorated in every way.
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Who wouldn't want to be wizard, at least for a day, as long as you didn't have the dilemmas and the situations that Merlin was thrown into. I'd be happy if you could actually use the powers to have a bit of fun and do something good for the world and maybe for yourself, whereas Merlin's kind of limited in that he has to look after Arthur.
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I don't know how I got involved in 'Celebrity Wife Swap.' It came from my agent Hugh. He got the opportunity for me.
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Blake said that the body was the soul's prison unless the five senses are fully developed and open. He considered the senses the 'windows of the soul.' When sex involves all the senses intensely, it can be like a mystical experence.
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I once asked [John] Lennon what he thought of what I do. He said 'it's great, but its just rock and roll with lipstick on'.
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Every man who observes vigilantly and resolves steadfastly grows unconsciously into genius.
