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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I never pass up the chance to shop at vintage stores.
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I told my agent which women I aspire to have a career like: Frances McDormand, Kate Winslet, Laura Linney and Emma Thompson - character actresses who have something to say. I also said that I loved Madeline Kahn and Jessica Lange.
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Evil is an attack against human spiritual development and enlightenment. All evil, badness, neurosis - it has one motive and one motive only, which is to destroy - to destroy your chance of arising above yourself.
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If my books appear to a reader to be oversimplified, then you shouldn't read them: You're not the audience!
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As an American writer, the literary tradition that I draw on the most is the Anglo-American one, and when you are writing in this tradition, the Orientalizing Western gaze is something you have to constantly push against as well as compromise with.
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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.
