Oscar Wilde Quotes
I am Irish by race but the English have condemned me to talk the language of Shakespeare.
Quotes to Explore
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At last, in 1611, was made, under the auspices of King James, the famous King James version; and this is the great literary monument of the English language.
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So many Indian novels, quite unfairly, do not get the prominence they should because they have been written in a language other than English.
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When I was 12 years old, I got interested in learning English.
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The characters in 'Ray Donovan' are not very articulate - we're the worst Irish family you could ever live next to in L.A.
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As you begin to realize that every different type of music, everybody's individual music, has its own rhythm, life, language and heritage, you realize how life changes, and you learn how to be more open and adaptive to what is around us.
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I was always an avid reader of books. My vocabulary, my English are all thanks to that reading habit. Reading keeps me grounded. I came from a very middle class family – poor, in fact.
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My autobiography is a digressive illustration and exemplification of what race has meant in the world in the 19th and 20th centuries.
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My grandparents never understood why my mother Noreen chose such exotic names for her children: Damon and me. My granny insisted on calling my brother Dermot - a good Irish name - until she died; I was just known as 'wee one.'
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When we talk of freedom and opportunity for all nations, the mocking paradoxes in our own society become so clear they can no longer be ignored.
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I remember once, actually the first race I ran, I fell.
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Indian writers have appropriated English as an Indian language, and that gives a certain freshness to the way we write.
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Genes are like the story, and DNA is the language that the story is written in.
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I think Paul McGuinness and U2 created the Irish music industry. It certainly wasn't there before that.
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We have our own history, our own language, our own culture. But our destiny is also tied up with the destinies of other people - history has made us all South Africans.
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What 'Deadwood' did was to talk about how capitalism started, how civilised society came in, and how that brought its own problems.
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I've learned not to hide behind a veil of irony - to talk about my work in a more honest way.
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Why should Scotland be stopped from suggesting to the English people that we join a new union under new terms? Let's not try to dominate one another. Let's be a collection, like being in the pub with a kitty. When we vote in Scotland, we vote one way, but the other country votes another way and we always end up with what they vote for.
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If someone believes they are limited by their gender, race or background, they will become more limited.
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I am not good at small talk. I will hide in a cupboard to avoid chitty-chat.
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I am of Irish, Italian, and French Canadian descent.
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The big thing is that we have five percent or less of the hardcore players actively entertaining the other ninety-five percent.
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I've tried to get better about weighing what I think the accessibility of an idea is against the cost of executing it. I've tried to be smarter about that, because if you're not smart about that, you're going to be unemployed. But I'm still mystified about what works for people. And I'm not talking about my movies, I'm talking in general. I'm mystified by the stuff that doesn't work. I'm mystified by what's going on in the critical side, too.
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Poetry calls us to pause. There is so much we overlook, while the abundance around us continues to shimmer, on its own.
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I am Irish by race but the English have condemned me to talk the language of Shakespeare.
