Oscar Wilde Quotes
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I am a human being. When you are frustrated, you do cry. It's more than once that I cried.
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Whatever you want to do in the industry, do it on the smallest level at first. If you want to be a writer, write a screenplay in your house. If you want to be an actor, put on a one-man show. If you want to be a stand-up comedian, go to an open mic.
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To have long term success as a coach or in any position of leadership, you have to be obsessed in some way.
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If I want to speculate wildly about the future, I have my science fiction. Anybody who tells you they can predict the future is either crazy or lying.
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You set up the story, but the characters start talking, and they go places that you didn't expect. You have to follow.
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I've always loved science fiction. I think the smartest writers are science fiction writers dealing with major things.
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Success is the maximum utilization of the ability that you have.
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Realize that the game of life is the game of, to some extent, being taken advantage of by people who make a science of it. Whether they are in government or personal life or in business, they're everywhere.
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They're not willing to admit that I've also shed blood and tears and often paid dearly for my success. This makes me feel extremely sad.
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I consider 'Dr. Horrible' a tremendous success. The fact that it won an Emmy I just think lends validity to what we were doing and the point we were trying to make: taking the power into someone else's hands and changing the world.
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We are born at a given moment, in a given place and, like vintage years of wine, we have the qualities of the year and of the season of which we are born. Astrology does not lay claim to anything more.
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I had a one-year-old son. How will my failure or success limit what he becomes? I was trying to write screenplays. It doesn't pay very well until you sell one. I was poor.
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I majored in political science and English, but starting from the age of 17, I've paid for everything that I've had in my life. It was a personal choice. My parents would have helped me in any way whatsoever, but for me, you know what? I can make my own way.
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If you don't stick up for what's yours, and defend what's yours... what are you?
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When you meet the love of your life, it's just obvious and natural and easier.
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I like to look for patterns in science and life. It's what I do.
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You have to create something from nothing.
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You know in the West they support realistic forces.
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I like people a lot, but I am not comfortable in literary New York situations. There is deep anxiety and tension around success here. I don't share problems I'm having about my work, and I think conversations around publishing are boring.
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Babbage ... gave the name to the [Cambridge] Analytical Society, which he stated was formed to advocate 'the principles of pure d-ism as opposed to the dot-age of the university.'
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I wanted to play baseball!
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I know you want it to stay pleasant around here, but - there are so many things … that are so much better. Like silly, or sexy, or dangerous … or brief. And every one of those things is in you all the time, if you just have the guts to look for them.
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Success is a science; if you have the conditions, you get the result.
