Oscar Wilde Quotes
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There's always going to be a little bit of autobiographical content to everything. It's how you lend some authority to what you write - you give it that weight by drawing on your direct experiences and indirect experiences from people that you know well, or a little.
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I would love to do a period movie. I've always wanted to wear the corset, you know. It's a girl thing!
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I don't talk about success. I don't know what it is. Wait until I'm dead.
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Readers of novels often fall into the bad habit of being overly exacting about the characters' moral flaws. They apply to these fictional beings standards that no one they know in real life could possibly meet.
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He is the true enchanter, whose spell operates, not upon the senses, but upon the imagination and the heart.
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Excess of grief for the dead is madness; for it is an injury to the living, and the dead know it not.
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I don't feel the need for religion. But I went on a yoga retreat last year and I do believe slightly in the karma thing and just being good and true unto yourself. And I slightly believe that you can attract good and bad to you.
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It is a true miracle when a man finally sees himself as his only opposition.
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I've cheated the Grim Reaper more times than anyone I know.
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The music business is one of a few places where everything you've heard about it seems entirely cliche, but it's true.
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I know there is a bounty on my head, such as there is with many other leaders and protesters.
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The ability to select stocks, manage them over time and know when to sell them is incredibly difficult, even for professional fund managers.
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Traditionally with debut albums, labels insist on a face, so people know who you are.
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I grew up being scared of the water, which is embarrassing to say as an Australian, but it's true.
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I think the over-militarization of local police forces is also true of the over-militarization of the federal government, so I don't really run and hide from the comment that I think there are 48 federal agencies that have SWAT teams.
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I was extremely lucky that I had two great wives. It sounds a bit funny to say that, but it's absolutely true.
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I feel disconnected, like I don't know where I am, if I'm on my phone too much. I'm also just the type to call. I'm not good on text.
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Okay, let's talk about cartoon labels for half a second - some people think anything with a dog or a car or a colorful alien is garbage, which is not true. Look at Big Moose Red. It's, like, a $6 wine with a cheesy label, and it's actually a solid wine.
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Intellectuals are people who manage the world in their head. They look at life and try to see some kind of truth, and if they cannot find it, they attempt to create it.
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I like a very dry wit, not the big kind of humor like Robin Williams. I don't think I'm capable of that.
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Philosophy is reason with the eyes of the soul.
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If we want to be comforted, we must make up our minds to believe every single solitary word of comfort God has ever spoken.
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I've never really been a part of anything but my own project.
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The true artist is known by what he annexes, and he annexes everything.