Oscar Wilde Quotes
Lots of people act well, but few people talk well. This shows that talking is the more difficult of the two.
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I grew up watching Super J-Cup tournaments and things like that, and those were pretty cool.
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The fact is that all of us have only one personality, and we wring it out like a dishtowel. You are what you are.
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In a way, I'm lucky that I was never classically trained and never went to a music college. I'm just from a normal working class family and happened to get obsessed with music as a teenager.
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If you're going to play a villain, there's no greater compliment than being told that you give people nightmares. I never thought I would be the actor that would give people nightmares.
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I keep in touch with what's real.
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Her death has had a huge effect on me. It felt like a big hole appeared on my left side - apparently your left side is your mother - which I thought could never be filled. Now I think what you have to do is fill it with yourself because your mother is part of you. I'm easing into that space, using it and being comforted by it.
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I'm just someone who marvels at God.
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I constantly remind people that crime isn't solved by technology; it's solved by people.
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I spend a lot of time in L.A., and when it rains there you get the entire rainfall for the year in two days, raindrops the size of mangoes. And in Barcelona, the Mediterranean storms come up from the sea, thunder and lightning; it's like the end of the world.
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We have agreed with Prime Minister Ariel Sharon to cease all acts of violence against the Israelis and against the Palestinians wherever they are. Tranquility and quiet that will be witnessed and in our land, starting today, is the beginning for a new era.
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Back in those days intimidation was the greatest tool the drill instructor had. Without that tool, he would not have had control.
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Everyone comes with dreams and illusions and promises. Everyone wants quick deals. They don't want to invest.
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The one thing that the president continues to diminish, which I think is unfortunate, is the fact that the Russian government, at the highest level, deliberately interfered with our election in 2016, and according to all of our experts in the intelligence community, they are coming back with more force in 2018 and 2020.
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Generally, I find a lot to be grateful for.
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My parents are overweight, and I think the biggest problem we have in America is a lack of education. The place to start is with parents and teaching them to cook healthier.
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We need to start looking at having a way of managing the whole ecosystem, because you can't pick away at it piece by piece, you have to truly start being coordinated and managing our resources as a system. We haven't gotten to that point yet.
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During my adolescence, our family dwelt in rural Alaska. We were dirt poor, Depression-era poor. Tarpaper shack and kerosene lamps. In those days I read because that's all I had. I wrote because that's all I had.
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For years I've been hearing 20-somethings say they don't expect Social Security to be around when they hit 65. Eventually, I came to realize that they really mean that they just don't expect to be 65. Or 40. Neither did I, when I was 22.
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I'm a bit of a geek, actually. So I always wanted my first film to be science fiction.
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I don't really get that, when groups tour together or even do anything together when they hate each other.
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I love creative people.
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I grew up outside of Boston in a town called Manchester by the Sea, and we spent our summers in Nantucket.
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Remember: there are no small parts, only small actors.
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Lots of people act well, but few people talk well. This shows that talking is the more difficult of the two.
