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 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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Life is not a spectator sport. If you're going to spend your whole life in the grandstand just watching what goes on, in my opinion you're wasting your life.
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My brother is a scientist. He's a professor at MIT. He brought science fiction into my world.
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I don't think it's a good thing to talk about women's issues being exactly the same as the issues of trans women because I don't think that's true.
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In the present state of our knowledge, it would be useless to attempt to speculate on the remote cause of the electrical energy... its relation to chemical affinity is, however, sufficiently evident. May it not be identical with it, and an essential property of matter?
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Everyone has to be receptive to the decisions of the ANC because that is the political center. You have got to accept the decisions, and you also have to accept the direction that you are given by the ANC.
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Drama is what I did before 'Blossom.'
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Success is a science; if you have the conditions, you get the result.
