Oscar Wilde Quotes
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Actually, I had no idea what shooting hoops was or were. I thought dunking was something you did with a beignet and a cup of steaming coffee. I wasn't exactly sure what a Knick was.
Hamish Bowles -
I like risky stuff.
Nadia Comaneci -
What I want is to try and get across the idea that reading for pleasure is so beneficial. And turn children on who have maybe been switched off reading or never found a love of it in the first place.
Malorie Blackman -
The basic idea for what became 'Epic Mickey' began at the Disney Think Tank.
Warren Spector -
Every idea has its time.
Vicente Fox -
Murderers, in general, are people who are consistent, people who are obsessed with one idea and nothing else.
Ugo Betti
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I didn't like the idea of being foolish, but I learned pretty soon that it was essential to fail and be foolish.
Daniel Day-Lewis -
I dread the idea of a paparazzi snapping me while I'm out running.
Paloma Faith -
You'd be surprised how hard it can often be to translate an action into an idea.
Karl Kraus -
I've walked away in the middle of a conversation and had no idea that was wrong until someone told me I was being rude.
Hannah Gadsby -
In all my years of baseball, I have always expected to be traded. I never liked the idea.
Jackie Robinson -
I still have not given up the idea of becoming a journalist, but at 17 I decided to follow my heart and stay in Los Angeles with my girlfriend as opposed to going to Johns Hopkins.
Mackenzie Astin
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The whole idea that what is not normal should be kept secret – that's really distasteful to me.
Dan Farmer -
It wasn't until I let go of the idea of the brass ring that it showed up, and fortunately for me, it coincided with getting clean.
Samuel L. Jackson -
Even today I work with Niall O'Brien, who is far more technically astute than I am, but I still have the clearest idea of every detail I want in my photograph.
Sam Taylor-Johnson -
I really hate bureaucracy and the idea that I'm not a free person.
Paloma Faith -
The Christian Coalition is still about Christianity, even if it's an idea of Christianity that many Christians might not go along with.
Salman Rushdie -
Comparing oneself with one's fellow writers is a bad idea. I would not review a fellow writer unless I had something terribly positive to say.
W. G. Sebald
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Dances are generally more fun to think about and get ready for than they actually are when you get there.
E. Lockhart -
You're in a scene with Laura Linney or Oliver Platt or John Hickey or Alan Alda and these amazing actors and actresses, and you're like, 'Oh my God, I haven't even started; I'm nothing compared to these people!'
Gabriel Basso -
Emptiness which is conceptually liable to be mistaken for sheer nothingness is in fact the reservoir of infinite possibilities.
D. T. Suzuki -
It only takes a room of Americans for the English and Australians to realise how much we have in common.
Stephen Fry -
An idea that isn't risky is hardly worth calling an idea.
Oscar Wilde