Oscar Wilde Quotes
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I hope that in some way that I can be some sort of beacon of hope, especially because I am not the typical Hollywood beauty.
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Sometimes love is stronger than a man's convictions.
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Free speech is the whole thing, the whole ball game. Free speech is life itself.
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Love is what we aspire to most in our lives.
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If you're human, you've had phases in your life when things are in flux.
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Be prepared, work hard, and hope for a little luck. Recognize that the harder you work and the better prepared you are, the more luck you might have.
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For love would be love of the wrong thing; there is yet faith, But the faith and the love and the hope are all in the waiting.
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The variety of genes on the planet in viruses exceeds, or is likely to exceed, that in all of the rest of life combined.
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The great photographers of life - like Diane Arbus and Walker Evans and Robert Frank - all must have had some special quality: a personality of nurturing and non-judgment that frees the subjects to reveal their most intimate reality. It really is what makes a great photographer, every bit as much as understanding composition and lighting.
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If love is the treasure, laughter is the key.
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I've learned through experience that life is never that bad. The secret is just paying attention to how you feel and not letting anyone else dictate what in your heart you know is right.
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In my life, I've never really listened to when people start forming opinions on how you should be doing things.
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I guess I was a mom so late in life, my daughter was the greatest thing since sliced bread.
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We weren't dirt poor, but there was no spare money kicking around. While it was very much understood that the way to a better life was through education, books were a luxury we couldn't afford. But when I was six, we actually moved opposite the central library, and that became my home from home.
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I think I write fiction for the opportunity to get beyond the limits of my own life.
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I really do feel very lucky. I've had my kids and my relationships. I've set my life down - I'm in my house, and I'm alone with my children - and I'm at peace, and that's a really nice feeling. All I really want in my life is to maintain that.
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What thoughts are to the individual, art is to the community as a whole. That's where you reflect on who you are, who you hope to be, what you've gone through, and where you hope to go.
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While we may lose heart, we never have to lose hope.
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The heroic hours of life do not announce their presence by drum and trumpet.
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Most striking feature... is the author’s failure to understand the elementary mechanics of the competitive economic organization.
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My father went to work by train every day. It was half an hour's journey each way, and he would read a paperback in four journeys. After supper, we all sat down to read - it was long before TV, remember!
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When I was in my 20s in the 1970s, I read all of Jean Rhys. I have reread very little since because the first impressions were so powerful they have stayed with me.
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As human beings we are all the same. We have this marvelous intelligence, which sometimes creates problems for us, but when influenced by warm-heartedness can be very constructive. In this context we need to appreciate the value of having moral principles.
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Nothing should be out of the reach of hope. Life is a hope.
