Oscar Wilde Quotes
Learned conversation is either the affectation of the ignorant or the profession of the mentally unemployed.
Quotes to Explore
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Do you know why I don't like doing press? I have trouble condensing things. I'd rather have a conversation.
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I think Freud is about contamination, but I think that is something he learned from Shakespeare, because Shakespeare is about nothing but contamination, you might say.
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Silence is also conversation.
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Being bi-racial and being from the country, I can talk to guys like Travis Frederick from Wisconsin and Doug Free from Wisconsin. And then I can go over and talk to Dez Bryant. I mean, think about the two different standpoints you need to have a real conversation with both, to really understand what they've been through.
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What a delightful thing is the conversation of specialists! One understands absolutely nothing and it's charming.
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Whenever I go to L.A., the make-up artist or hairdresser will end up having a conversation about how fat they think they are, and I really just can't take it seriously at all.
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The Negro was freed and turned loose as a penniless, landless, naked, ignorant laborer. Ninety-nine per cent were field hands and servants of the lowest class.
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Acting isn't a singular profession, it is a collaborate profession.
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Inject a few raisins of conversation into the tasteless dough of existence.
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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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Elements and birthdays have been intertwined for me since boyhood, when I learned about atomic numbers.
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As a press secretary and on 'The Five,' I've learned that I have a choice in how I answer a question. There's combative or productive - I get to take my pick.
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I had a great conversation with Tom Waits, of all people.
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Singing is my profession - there is no plan B.
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On the landscape crew, I learned a lot from the other workers. We treated everybody equally, and we worked hard.
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An interesting insight into the ruthlessness of studio executives: I was having a conversation with Alex Gansa, a creator of 'Homeland,' and I said, 'So you guys must have seen 'Life' and liked me in it, right? That's the most recent thing I've done over here.' And he went, 'No, Damian. You actually nearly didn't get the job because of 'Life.'
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'The Conversation' was the first film I edited on a flatbed machine - a KEM editing machine. I've been using Final Cut or the AVID for 12 years now, so I was interested in looking at this film and seeing if I could tell if it had been edited the old way.
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I've spent so much time with iambic pentameter that I can now recognize it when I hear it in conversation or a movie - it's like a weird, useless superpower.
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It is not the feeling sure of a doctrine (be it what it may) which I call an assumption of infallibility. It is the undertaking to decide that question for others, without allowing them to hear what can be said on the contrary side. And I denounce and reprobate this pretension not the less, if put forth on the side of my most solemn convictions.
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Look," I whisper to Cat, "Shooting star! That's good luck." She rolls her eyes. "It's a plane, you idiot," she says, and when I look again I can see that she's right. Typical.
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Tragedy is that our attention centers on what people are not, rather than on what they are and who they might become.
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Number is the within of all things.
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Learned conversation is either the affectation of the ignorant or the profession of the mentally unemployed.
