Oscar Wilde Quotes
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When I meet someone who I really admire, I enjoy nothing more than trying to connect with them and asking them about their career. I want to know who the people are behind the performances and how they relate to their performances. But it's maybe not as novel as it once was.
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I enjoy all kinds of performances and take each role differently. I keep the audiences in mind.
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I started dealing with weapons on the first show I ever did, 'The Inside,' but I didn't really do any physical stuff until 'Alias.'
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Right now, I'm not really thinking about marriage.
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I always say three things make a writer: inspiration, obviously; perspiration, doing the work. But the third is desperation. I'm not really fit for anything else, or to have a real job. That fear drives me. The pressure has always been self inflicted.
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Seed investing is the status symbol of Silicon Valley. Most people don't want Ferraris, they want a winning seed investment.
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Our goal definitely isn't to sell Stripe.
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Inasmuch as society cannot go on without discipline of some kind, men were constrained, in the absence of any other form of discipline, to turn to discipline of the military type.
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A lot of these people were getting to where they didn't need help anymore. You have to start all over again.
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I was always a bit different. I had a very happy childhood, but I could never hang on to mates.
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Art is individualism, and individualism is a disturbing and disintegrating force.
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American power worldwide is at its historic zenith.
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Fundamentalism - of any variety - is a form of illiteracy, in that it asserts that it is necessary to read only one book.
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We still need to be conscious of the fact that Russia has intercontinental ballistic missiles.
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I have a difficult time sitting down for long periods.
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Never dress down for the poor. They won't respect you for it. They want their First Lady to look like a million dollars.
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I was sent to a nice Church of England girls' school and at that time, after university, a woman was expected to become a teacher, a nurse or a missionary - prior to marriage.
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After I learned the piano, I went on to learn percussion, the tuba, b-flat baritone, French horn, trombone, trumpet, most of the instruments in the orchestra. Trumpet was my instrument.
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As we see the beauty of God and feel His weightiness in our hearts, our hearts begin to desire Him more than we desire sin. Before the Bible says,"Stop sinning", it says,"Behold your God".
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The more in harmony with yourself you are, the more joyful you are and the more faithful you are. Faith is not to disconnect you from reality - it connects you to reality.
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Failure comes only when we forget our ideals and objectives and principles.
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Most people see what is, and never see what can be.
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It was amazing that a play that seems dated in this world... A man whose best friend is a six-foot white rabbit... But it caught on, especially with young people - they surprised me most of all.
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Scepticism is the beginning of Faith.
