Oscar Wilde Quotes
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You realise that having a number one record and being loved and adored isn't the most important thing in the world. But at the same time, I don't have a problem with it. What I'm trying to say is, I'm not a reluctant pop star.
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My father was an amateur filmmaker who shot 8mm color documentaries.
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A big part of being an actress specifically is feeling entitled to your artistic opinion, feeling that it means something, and being able to stand by it.
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What men value in this world is not rights but privileges.
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Strange bonds of trust and self-deception tend to grow between journalists and their subjects.
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I mean the word proof not in the sense of the lawyers, who set two half proofs equal to a whole one, but in the sense of a mathematician, where half proof = 0, and it is demanded for proof that every doubt becomes impossible.
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Law is nothing unless close behind it stands a warm, living public opinion.
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I follow my own head. And if I'm determined to do something, then I'll make sure that I make it happen.
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I'm always most excited about the job I'm doing at the present, and that's especially true about 'Price' because of my respect for the show and it's production team.
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We really have a lot of fun at these sessions, we all get along and kid around with each other throughout the job.
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I just wanted to make a record that wasn't escapism. Like, I didn't want to write another record that was devoid of meaningful content.
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Particularly black Americans, many of them, from quotes that I have seen and conversations I've had, are sort of insulted that the civil rights movement is being hijacked - the rhetoric of the civil rights movement is being hijacked for something like same sex marriage. Black Americans tend to have a higher degree of religiosity.
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There was a moment when we were casting 'Groundhog Day' when Bill Murray was not at the top of my list. He'd been getting crankier and crankier. By the end of 'Ghostbusters II', he was pretty cranky. I thought, 'Do I want to put up with this for twelve weeks?'
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Men still wear cologne, but I wish they wouldn't. No matter what you may believe, all men's fragrances smell like the air freshener in a taxi.
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Nowadays, I know the true reason I read is to feel less alone, to make a connection with a consciousness other than my own.
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My mum brought me to my first job when I was 12. I started electrical work at her plant. She was an engineer, a technical expert, at one of the plants in the south, and in the summer she brought me in and I learnt how industrial things work: casting, electricity, maintenance, everything.
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A revolution is not a dinner party, or writing an essay, or painting a picture, or doing embroidery.
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We have been spending beyond our means, we are going to focus on the projects that we committed to in the election but importantly if there is additional projects or new things that come up they have to have a business case, they have to work and they can't impose financial stress on families and private individuals and businesses.
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If you truly love someone, you only give love. Even if the person hates, you love and love and love.
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We are a communicating nation which needs access to space, access to the seas.
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I never really did abandon my true self. It's not like I invented this imaginary person and started to be her.
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A beggar hates his benefactor as much as he hates himself for begging.
