Oscar Wilde Quotes
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My idols are Janis Joplin and Annie Lennox, who are neither of them from the typical pop culture.
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When I was in my early 20s, I studied tae kwon do and hapkido. I earned brown belts in both of them.
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The higher your station, the less your liberty.
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Our built-in human system for mimicry explains why we humans can transfer our good and bad moods to each other - if we aren't careful!
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Diversity isn't just a hallmark of big cities anymore.
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Anyone who sets foot into the 'Watchmen' universe and isn't just a little nervous should be given a few days of electroshock therapy. I've always considered 'Watchmen' to be one of the best graphic novels ever written, and when it came out back in 1986 I was as blown away as everyone else. Just masterful.
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After college, I went into the NBC Page Program. It's one of those great programs that allows kids to get their feet wet in every area of the business.
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If you'd have told me five years ago that I'd have done all this – two books, some television and everything – I'd panic, I'd be scared.
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I have always hated slavery, I think, as much as any abolitionist. I have been an Old Line Whig. I have always hated it, but I have always been quiet about it until this new era of the introduction of the Nebraska Bill began.
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Being gay myself, I'm naturally drawn to the interactions between men rather than men and women.
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Everyone wants me to be perfect, but I am so far from perfect!
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I am the kind of person who does not like to carry baggage. In fact, I don't go back and listen to my own music. I believe in closing chapters and moving forward. That's what gives me peace.
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As an actor, what I can do is tell the truth. At least, I hope I can tell the truth - a dramatic truth, but still an honest portrayal.
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I am not a method actor, though I studied for a year with Lee Strasburg.
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Harpo Marx looks like a musical comedy.
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I'm a plodder, one foot in front of the other. Life is all about understanding that anything that can go wrong, will go wrong. And it's your ability with how you deal with that adversity that ultimately affects your success.
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I don't think the label makes the artist or the artist makes the label. It's the music that makes everything work or not.
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To expect ... the same service from raw and undisciplined recruits, as from veteran soldiers, is to expect what never did and perhaps never will happen. Men, who are familiarized to danger, meet it without shrinking; whereas troops unused to service often apprehend danger where no danger is.
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Even in my first analysis of a depressive psychosis, I was immediately struck by its structural similarity with obsessional neurosis.
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My characters who come back from death are worse for wear. In some ways, they're not even the same characters anymore. The body may be moving, but some aspect of the spirit is changed or transformed, and they've lost something.
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I think that popular culture takes a long time to catch up to what's actually happening in the world. Women have had to take care of themselves for quite a while. Actually, not had to take of themselves, but have wanted to take care of themselves, so I think it's a big transition that our country and our society has been going through a long time.
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If you make a really good product that people want and are willing to pay for, money will come.
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My wallpaper and I are fighting a duel to the death. One or the other of us has to go.
