Oscar Wilde Quotes
Women, as some witty Frenchman once put it, inspire us with the desire to do masterpieces and always prevent us from carrying them out.
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I didn't equate a POW camp with a concentration camp.
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It is by a wise economy of nature that those who suffer without change, and whom no one can help, become uninteresting. Yet so it may happen that those who need sympathy the most often attract it the least.
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I congratulate you, my fellow-citizens, upon the high state of prosperity to which the goodness of Divine Providence has conducted our common country.
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I don't Twitter, although sometimes I think that I should.
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I have no special talent, you know. I never took a writing course before I began to write.
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It's tough to be 68 and dating. I've given it up now.
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My parents have been with me every step of the way.
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We had to get serious and hit all aspects. We had to graduate. That's what you got to do: reach all people across the nation.
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We expect President Bush to implement his own vision of a two-state solution, the birth of the Palestinian State and the ending of the occupation that started in 1967.
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He travels fastest who travels alone, and that goes double for she. Real feminism is spinsterhood.
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I think money helps us. It helps us. It's our - it's our exchange system. But it does not buy you happiness. It doesn't buy you health.
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Oh my God, Betty White is actually everything that you would expect her to be like.
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Smoke machines are the best!
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If you want to be happy, make others happy!
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When you have a movie, you know who they start out as and where they go. But this is constantly changing, and you're growing with the character.
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You have to find something that you want to accomplish, that you want to achieve. You want to drop 15 pounds. You want to be able to run four miles. There has to be some goal that you set for yourself and, after you've reached that goal, you set a new one. You always have to be shooting for something, striving for something.
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God is the King. In him exists all legal authority.
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There is always going to be a little bit of me in each character.
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What the White man had won with so much blood and dishonesty was not the living land of the Red man, but the corpse of that land. It was decay that the White man won. It would turn to dust in his hands, Alvin knew it.
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Women are never the protagonists; we're always reactionary against everything that's done to us. I like people who write for women that have got a bit more about them.
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That's what the cat said to the canary when he swallowed him - 'You'll be all right.'
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When they were casting, Denis was very specific that he didn't want any actors from L.A. and I was living in L.A. at the time.
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All technical refinements discourage me. Perfect photography, larger screens, hi-fi sound, all make it possible for mediocrities slavishly to reproduce nature; and this reproduction bores me. What interests me is the interpretation of life by an artist. The personality of the film maker interests me more than the copy of an object.
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Women, as some witty Frenchman once put it, inspire us with the desire to do masterpieces and always prevent us from carrying them out.
