Oscar Wilde Quotes
My dear young lady, there was a great deal of truth; I dare say, in what you said, and you looked very pretty while you said it, which is much more important.
Quotes to Explore
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Don't taunt the alligator until after you've crossed the creek.
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I love the immediacy of an audience being there and reacting. I'm spoiled, having grown up in theater.
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People idealize or reminisce about their 20s, but nobody tells you beforehand that it's hard and unglamorous and often very unpleasant.
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I doubt I'll ever have another traditional print deal.
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I enjoyed working as a model a lot as it let me travel and I got to do some really interesting projects.
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I found out that there was this project called the 'Great Green Wall' where they wanted to plant trees across the Sahara desert, and the idea was born that I wanted to create a support structure for that initiative.
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The rights of copyright holders need to be protected, but some draconian remedies that have been suggested would create more problems than they would solve.
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How can a woman be expected to be happy with a man who insists on treating her as if she were a perfectly normal human being.
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We shook up the industry with our landscape-changing deal to acquire Time Warner, the logical next step in our strategy to bring together world-class content with best-in-class distribution which will drive innovation and more choice for consumers.
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If science fiction is the mythology of modern technology, then its myth is tragic.
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Biology is the least of what makes someone a mother.
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The privileged classes today are bothered about petrol and diesel prices while the poor can't afford two meals a day. I am a very small person, but I want us to think beyond personal and regional interests.
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Focus on remedies, not faults.
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I love acting. I've been doing it since I was 16, and it's in my nature. It's the thing I do best. But as much as I love acting, I love cinema more. I always had a thing about creating images.
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Eurasia is home to most of the world's politically assertive and dynamic states.
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Being an actress can be a little like being a girl in the '50s: You're stuck waiting by the phone, hoping that the boy you like will call.
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Fashion has this youth mania. But 70-year-old ladies don't have 18-year-old bodies, and 18-year-olds don't have a 70-year-old's dollars.
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I have a couple of girlfriends who've told me some horror stories but I've never had a really terrible kiss before.
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I'm very political without being political. I don't know how to speak proper political language.
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The burden which is well borne becomes light.
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There are four different theories concerning Divine Providence; they are all ancient, known from the time of the Prophets, when the true law was revealed to enlighten these dark regions.
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A lot of the stories I write about have an element of mystery. They're crime stories or conspiracy stories or quests. They do have built into them revelations and twists. But the revelations, to me, come from seeing history as it's unfolding, or life as it's unfolding.
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My dear young lady, there was a great deal of truth; I dare say, in what you said, and you looked very pretty while you said it, which is much more important.
