Oscar Wilde Quotes
It is not wise to find symbols in everything that one sees. It makes life too full of terrors.
Quotes to Explore
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Great things are not accomplished by those who yield to trends and fads and popular opinion.
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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.
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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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I would love to have been around in the Keystone Studios days.
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I play-acted and started performing, which just logically led to doing it in school, which led to studying it in college, which led to auditioning to the showcase in New York. And then I had an agent, and I was an actress.
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I've always been extremely physical. I was a gymnast for 15 years, and then I was a dancer for nine, so I was kind of looking for these parts. But we have a tendency in Denmark not to do many action films.
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I'd like to imagine that in order to beat me a person would have to play almost perfect tennis.
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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.
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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.
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But acting just sort of happened and I found that I loved it. It was such a challenge.
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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.
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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.
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As far as expectations go, you can never work for expectations. You have to work against them.
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A marriage is no amusement but a solemn act, and generally a sad one.
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As you become more clear about who you really are, you'll be better able to decide what is best for you - the first time around.
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A woman's health is her capital.
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I don't only write about English literature; I also write about chaos theory and... ants. I can understand ants.
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I'm not going to jump out of airplanes or anything like someone else I know.
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My mother and father were both much more remarkable than any story of mine can make them. They seem to me just mythically wonderful.
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Thinking can only serve to measure out the helplessness of thought.
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At first sight experience seems to bury us under a flood of external objects, pressing upon us with a sharp and importunate reality, calling us out of ourselves in a thousand forms of action.
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I really saw myself as the quintessential Cinderella. I think that's when I really thought about how I wanted to do something else and get away from all that.
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You wouldn't see those sorts of decisions given in village cricket, let alone Test cricket. The England players have my sympathy.
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It is not wise to find symbols in everything that one sees. It makes life too full of terrors.
