Oscar Wilde Quotes
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Actually, I had no idea what shooting hoops was or were. I thought dunking was something you did with a beignet and a cup of steaming coffee. I wasn't exactly sure what a Knick was.
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I like risky stuff.
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What I want is to try and get across the idea that reading for pleasure is so beneficial. And turn children on who have maybe been switched off reading or never found a love of it in the first place.
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The basic idea for what became 'Epic Mickey' began at the Disney Think Tank.
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Every idea has its time.
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Murderers, in general, are people who are consistent, people who are obsessed with one idea and nothing else.
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I didn't like the idea of being foolish, but I learned pretty soon that it was essential to fail and be foolish.
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I dread the idea of a paparazzi snapping me while I'm out running.
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You'd be surprised how hard it can often be to translate an action into an idea.
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I've walked away in the middle of a conversation and had no idea that was wrong until someone told me I was being rude.
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In all my years of baseball, I have always expected to be traded. I never liked the idea.
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I still have not given up the idea of becoming a journalist, but at 17 I decided to follow my heart and stay in Los Angeles with my girlfriend as opposed to going to Johns Hopkins.
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The whole idea that what is not normal should be kept secret – that's really distasteful to me.
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It wasn't until I let go of the idea of the brass ring that it showed up, and fortunately for me, it coincided with getting clean.
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Even today I work with Niall O'Brien, who is far more technically astute than I am, but I still have the clearest idea of every detail I want in my photograph.
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I really hate bureaucracy and the idea that I'm not a free person.
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The Christian Coalition is still about Christianity, even if it's an idea of Christianity that many Christians might not go along with.
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Comparing oneself with one's fellow writers is a bad idea. I would not review a fellow writer unless I had something terribly positive to say.
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Every single work of art is the fulfillment of a prophecy; for every work of art is the conversion of an idea into an image.
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The problem with books, now that I've written one, is that the idea of adaptation is so much easier than sitting down to write something new.
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More often than not, at the end of the day (or a month, or a year), you realize that your initial idea was wrong, and you have to try something else. These are the moments of frustration and despair. You feel that you have wasted an enormous amount of time, with nothing to show for it. This is hard to stomach. But you can never give up. You go back to the drawing board, you analyze more data, you learn from your previous mistakes, you try to come up with a better idea. And every once in a while, suddenly, your idea starts to work. It's as if you had spent a fruitless day surfing, when you finally catch a wave: you try to hold on to it and ride it for as long as possible. At moments like this, you have to free your imagination and let the wave take you as far as it can. Even if the idea sounds totally crazy at first.
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I always wanted to become president! When I was a kid, I was obsessed with politics.
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I think - you know, I want to intimidate people when I'm on the field. I want people to be scared of me. That's just kind of the nature of who I am as a person and player. But I also know that you have to be emotional. You have to be in touch with your feelings. I think that's important.
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An idea that isn't risky is hardly worth calling an idea.
