Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton Quotes
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I've had a pretty charmed life, so there's nothing that I need to take too seriously right now.
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Memory is a complicated thing, a relative to truth, but not its twin.
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Who cares and remembers if my last film was a success? I need to work harder.
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You know, I'm an African-American quarterback. That may scare a lot of people because they – they haven't seen nothing that they can compare me to.
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With freedom comes responsibility, and I can think of no responsibility greater than putting on a U.S military uniform and standing in the gap between an enemy threat and civilian life.
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I think it's the director's prerogative, not the studio's, to go back and reinvent a movie.
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I want to be judged on my own merits.
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So, it's like: I'm an OK singer; I'm an OK guitar player and you put them together and... it's just OK.
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In Egypt today most people are concerned with getting bread to eat. Only some of the educated understand how democracy works.
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I think is very beneficial to relax yourself so that when you are doing it you are not staggering for lines and your concentration is not on what I am going to say - but the scene itself, the character that you are talking to.
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Yeah, I don't like, um, I'm not interested in rock 'n' roll piano. I find it a little grating.
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Nobody owes anybody a living, but everybody is entitled to a chance.
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That's a beautiful thing. The more successful you are, the more people are going to come and be a part of music.
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My hands, my feet, I throw my whole body to say all that is within me.
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Fear may very well be a caveman fear of the predator, of the giant lizard chasing them - maybe that's what Steven Spielberg connects with so well in Lost World.
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I hate to tell you this, but there's an entire subset of people out there who think of me as quite a dull actor. And that's the word used, and often – dull.
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Law enforcement officers are never 'off duty.' They are dedicated public servants who are sworn to protect public safety at any time and place that the peace is threatened. They need all the help that they can get.
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I find Indian music very funky. I mean it's very soulful, with their own kind of blues. But it's the only other school on the planet that develops improvisation to the high degree that you find in jazz music. So we have a lot of common ground.
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You can't let praise or criticism get to you. It's a weakness to get caught up in either one.
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A goose flies by a chart which the Royal Geographical Society could not mend.
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My sweet rose, my delicate flower, my lily of lilies, it is perhaps in prison that I am going to test the power of love. I am going to see if I cannot make the bitter warders sweet by the intensity of the love I bear you. I have had moments when I thought it would be wise to separate. Ah! Moments of weakness and madness! Now I see that would have mutilated my life, ruined my art, broken the musical chords which make a perfect soul. Even covered with mud I shall praise you, from the deepest abysses I shall cry to you. In my solitude you will be with me.
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I was at this time living, like so many Atheists or Antitheists, in a whirl of contradictions. I maintained that God did not exist. I was also very angry with God for not existing. I was equally angry with Him for creating a world.
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I think it's good to conquer the fears.
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A good heart is better than all the heads in the world.
