Oscar Wilde Quotes
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I was in a Nativity play as a kid. Back then, I played the donkey.
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The sun never sets on my gallery.
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I was taught to play that way when I was in high school and even before I got to high school.
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I do not often get lonely, and I never get bored.
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Study first, play afterwards.
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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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A story never looks as good as when the other fellow buys it.
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Feeling comfortable in my own skin has never been easy for me.
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Never despair, but if you do, work on in despair.
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This whole tribal loyalty seems to have gone.
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My dream part would be to play Mitt Romney's sarcastic black maid. We could call it 'Mammy & Me.'
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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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The power to command has never meant the power to remain mysterious.
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I still have my old Nintendo 64 that works. And I hook it up, and I still play the original 'Goldeneye.' I'm that geek. I have an 'NBA Jam' arcade machine in my office at 'SNL.'
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You can't date if you're famous. That's how it seems to me.
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I have never advocated war except as a means of peace.
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I came from two harsh dictatorships, Nazi and Stalinist. I never thought of becoming a writer as such, yet in a lucid moment, I recognised what I had to do.
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We know that the elements in play in a show like 'Confederate' are much more raw, much more real, and people come into them much more sensitive and more invested, than they do with a story about a place called 'Westeros,' which none of them had ever heard of before they read the books or watched the show.
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Play isn't you being clever, or finding a trick, or finding a way of covering over your own misery, or persuading someone to do what you want. It's the process of working with the materials that you find and discovering what's possible with them.
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Life would be very dreary if there were no magic. If the real world were only that veil of tears, I just don't think could get up in the morning.
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The world is not growing worse and it is not growing better - it is just turning around as usual.
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I see that already in this present world I am exalted above measure by the Lord. And I was not worthy nor such a one as that he should grant this to me, since I know most surely that poverty and affliction become me better than delights and riches.
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Katczinsky says it is all to do with education - it softens the brain.
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Perhaps one never seems so much at ones ease as when one has to play a part.
