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 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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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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So if I get these actors for 30% of their price by coming in so late with an offer when they know they are not getting another offer then I do it this way.
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Do you hate poor people or do you just hate poor people with jobs?
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There exists in the minds of men a tone of feeling toward women as toward slaves.
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We really believe in the earnings. We're very proud that often we do well in the down market. But you know, there are some markets where they just lose liquidity, like 2001, 2008.
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I often say after eight years in Washington, I longed for the realism and sincerity of Hollywood.
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We are at a crossroads in the music business: with the rise of the internet, the world we live in has changed, and the past is not coming back. But I see the glass as half-full: the internet and social networking are new avenues for the next Bob Dylan to be born on.
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A sound mind in a sound body, is a short, but full description of a happy state in this World: he that has these two, has little more to wish for; and he that wants either of them, will be little the better for anything else.
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A good heart is better than all the heads in the world.
