Oscar Wilde Quotes
It is not wise to find symbols in everything that one sees. It makes life too full of terrors.
Oscar Wilde
Quotes to Explore
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Great things are not accomplished by those who yield to trends and fads and popular opinion.
Jack Kerouac
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Tell him, on the contrary, that he needs, in the interest of his own happiness, to walk in the path of humility and self-control, and he will be indifferent, or even actively resentful.
Irving Babbitt
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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.
H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
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I would love to have been around in the Keystone Studios days.
Sally Phillips
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For me, my writing benefits from my experience.
Ta-Nehisi Coates
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I started playing badminton when I was probably of eight years and ever since have been playing. I didn't go to university.
Rajiv Ouseph
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If you're throwing someone off a roof, you're throwing them off the roof. It's there. You don't have to do anything extra with that. The audience is obviously going to react to that because it's such a heightened thing to do. But in the other moments, you really look for ways to craft those, because they're more important, honestly.
Mahershala Ali
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I've got a nice car. I love my job. I've got a bagel store, and I have breakfast every morning with friends I grew up with. I've been in movies, I've written books - I don't know how that all happened.
Larry King
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But acting just sort of happened and I found that I loved it. It was such a challenge.
Rachael Leigh Cook
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I was getting offers. I had just turned them down. Then I realized I should be grateful that at age 54, people were still offering me film roles.
Candice Bergen
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If I were governor, and a bill came to my desk that provided for background checks at gun shows, I would sign that.
Wendy Davis
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As far as expectations go, you can never work for expectations. You have to work against them.
Kajol
