Oscar Wilde Quotes
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Life in California is beautiful.
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Philanthropy is natural. For a mother, taking care of her children is natural. If I am rich, I take care of the poor, like a mother would.
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Some borrowers are pretty damn good at fraud.
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I was certainly a better actor after my five years in Hollywood. I had learned to be natural - never to exaggerate. I found I could act on the stage in just the same way as I had acted in a studio: using my ordinary voice, eliminating gestures, keeping everything extremely simple.
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As with lemon juice, the more sorrel you use, the more it has to be balanced with something sweet, starchy or creamy - it's a yin-yang approach to cooking that I find rather calming.
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The most emphatic place in a clause or sentence is the end. This is the climax; and, during the momentary pause that follows, that last word continues, as it were, to reverberate in the reader's mind. It has, in fact, the last word.
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A man seldom thinks with more earnestness of anything than he does of his dinner.
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It's really not my thing to go after what comedians are doing. Because I always feel like we're jesters at the end of the day.
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My favorite actresses were Geraldine Paige, Anne Bancroft and Kim Stanley.
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Are you used to entertaining everyone with your tales of drama and conflict? Do you get attention and feel important every time you complain about how awful this man is? Stop settling for attention for the negative stuff in your life.
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When I was a kid, I thought it was tough.
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After I'd hit a home run and took my position in the field, the fans in the bleachers began throwing packages of tobacco at me. I stuffed them in my pocket.
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I could have taken the easy life and just done classical, but I felt very strongly about the album, my first pop album, the first time that I'd fused so many influences. I was very proud when it was in the charts in 25 countries at once.
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I'll never get married again, and I always hate to say never to anything, but I will never marry again.
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Truth is on the side of the oppressed.
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A lot changed when I had Natasha. I'm a survivor.
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Therapists have tremendous power over their vulnerable clients, and it is very easy to take advantage of this power.
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I don't intentionally go: 'Ooh, what is provocative,' and try to do that. I just do stuff, and people go: 'Ooh, that's provocative.'
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I was fooling everyone by surrounding myself with funny people. But then I put myself out there - writing my own sketches, going on stage with nobody surrounding me - and for some reason people were still laughing.
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All through my writing life I've had this impulse to write autobiographical works.
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If we can get everybody working or as many as we can, you would be amazed at how many of our problems will disintegrate, go away.
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As an artist you actually do have to make a choice to be an outsider. If you're an outsider you have the freedom to say what people on the inside don't dare to say.
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My whole family is in orthotics and prosthetics, so I grew up having to check for scoliosis every week. 'Come over. Let me feel your spine.'
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He would stab his best friend for the sake of writing an epigram on his tombstone.
