Oscar Wilde Quotes
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Awards for arts, where you make comparisons, don't make much sense.
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My career is a black comedy of sorts. I spent a lot of time explaining myself to various different groups. But more and more, I'm finding that the desire to communicate, which all these audiences share, is a powerful thing.
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When facing a difficult task, act as though it is impossible to fail. If you are going after Moby Dick, take along the tartar sauce.
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Only a fool does not fear actors, but you can't beat them, and if you can't beat them, join them, as they say. As I've got older I've become very interested in that part of the work.
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I get asked to comment a lot on inequality in cycling, but for me it has never been an issue. Everything has always been equal on the track, and the male and female riders are all part of the same team, and we all mix freely.
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I like winning. There's also a certain joy in it. I feel fulfilled by it.
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I'm not actually even a very good singer. I'm not.
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We know what a person thinks not when he tells us what he thinks, but by his actions.
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My husband and I have season tickets to the Giants games, and we go there as fans to enjoy it.
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You don't win as a party unless you become a bigger party.
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If I can't get a mental image from the song, I won't sing it.
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A rich, robust, well-resourced public education is one of the best routes out of poverty and a pathway to prosperity.
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I hope to instill, in every child I meet, my love and enthusiasm for reading and stories.
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I told my agent which women I aspire to have a career like: Frances McDormand, Kate Winslet, Laura Linney and Emma Thompson - character actresses who have something to say. I also said that I loved Madeline Kahn and Jessica Lange.
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One has to have the courage of one's pessimism.
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I don't trust that many people. Just my mother and my wife and a couple of friends. When I trust people, it doesn't end well.
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I am at war... with the principal personage of traditional philosophy, that abstract subject who masquerades as everyone and anyone, but is really a male subject in disguise.
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It is better that one's customers come to one's shop than to have to look for them abroad.
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Where one person shapes their life by precept and example, there are a thousand who have shaped it by impulse and circumstances.
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When I look around at Broadway and the West End, theatre is becoming an exclusive club.
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What if you were really meant to be with someone? But you kept messing about and having the Horn and so on and you lost them.
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Ethereum has taken what was a four-function calculator of a programming language in Bitcoin and turned it into a full-fledged computer.
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To be of mixed blood is a great gift for a writer. I have one foot on tribal lands and one foot in middle-class life.
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I am always astonishing myself. It is the only thing that makes life worth living.
