Oscar Wilde Quotes
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I have been offered a lot for my work, but never everything.
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I would never write a memoir, because it would be too boring.
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If I were to continue to work in an established mode, it stands to reason the work would be limited by this - that it would never surpass the prior work in quality.
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I grew up playing on unprepared surfaces where your wicket depended on quickly adapting to the bounce. As a kid, I could never differentiate off-spin from leg-spin. All I looked to do was to try to hit the ball before it pitched.
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I wasn't bad at school, but I was never a bookworm.
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I've never had to explain 'Prometheus' to people, ever. Most people get it.
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I've never pretended that I'm not female and vulnerable. To me, it's just being honest.
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To be honest, I have never thought about getting into direction.
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I studied communications, only because I could get my own show on the campus radio station. I never thought of it as a career. Music was always a really passionate hobby - it was like collecting DVDs or stamps.
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Things are never perfect, so I never get too high about things, or get too down about things anymore.
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I never was a popular kid in class.
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I've been in the public eye now for about 15 or 16 years, and I'm very aware that fame is not a given. I have to maintain it. It's not just something that will always be there. But I've always been a worker. I've never expected be given anything.
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I never read about photography.
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You can never lose anything that really belongs to you, and you can't keep that which belongs to someone else.
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However and wherever we are, we must live as if we will never die.
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I never reflect or convey that which I have not experienced myself.
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Now and then, I had moments of greatness, but I never knew how to duplicate it consistently.
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I've never been around pets. I didn't have pets as a child.
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You have never been poor, and never known what ambition is.
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I never see myself as writing satire. I think I write about people as they really are, without making them better or worse.
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The essential conditions of everything you do must be choice, love, passion.
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The spark for 'In Praise of Slowness' came when I began reading to my children. Every parent knows that kids like their bedtime stories read at a gentle, meandering pace. But I used to be too fast to slow down with the Brothers Grimm. I would zoom through the classic fairy tales, skipping lines, paragraphs, whole pages.
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We have one authority and one law and everyone has the responsibility to follow that law and that authority.
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You can never be overdressed or overeducated.
