Oscar Wilde Quotes
We who live in prison, and in whose lives there is no event but sorrow, have to measure time by throbs of pain, and the record of bitter moments.
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I'm from Maine. I eat apple pie for breakfast.
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The mystery of government is not how Washington works but how to make it stop.
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The society Shakespeare knew was heading for tremendous change, and he seems to have recognized that and written about it in a coded way. I understand those codes, I think.
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I want to show people that there's a side of myself other than just the outrageous comedian.
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I don't know how people recognize me.
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How many inner resources one needs to tolerate a life of leisure without fatigue.
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I'm in love with music, and I'm pregnant by it. It's like having twins. Or triplets. Or eight-lets!
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Television shows and movies that are all white, I can't watch them. They totally alienate me.
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Dave thought he was bigger than Van Halen the band. So there was this catfight going on for 10 years.
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At first, I didn't really have a passion for acting.
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Home is where your rump rests.
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What man is there, surrounded though he be with the love of wife and children, who does not retain a memory of the romantic affection of boys for each other? Having felt it, he could scarcely have forgotten it, and if he never felt it, he missed one of the most golden of the prizes of youth, unrecapturable in mature life.
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I'm confident and really optimistic.
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It's funny, because I have periods where I just kind of go dark. I don't tweet, I don't talk, I don't interview, and then I have times where I do.
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I live in England, so I take a lot of trains, and you can't really go anywhere without somebody talking on their mobile phone behind you, forcing you to listen to their conversation. With the Internet, with texting, with networking sites, there's already information everywhere.
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When I'm filming, it's in the contract - 'No kiteboarding' - ha ha.
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People just get kicks out of making other people sad.
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When I'm off the golf course, I feel the pressure, but I try to concentrate on the golf course.
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It's important for people of colour to have the opportunities to play characters that are as nuanced - as three-dimensional, as human - as the characters who we traditionally see getting to play the protagonist. The good guys and the bad guys. The reason that is important is because it's a better reflection of the reality of the world we live in.
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My biggest disappointment is that once I'm finished working on the characters, I really do expect to see them in the flesh one day.
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All my life I have had a certain idea of France.
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Greed has taken the whole universe, and nobody is worried about their soul.
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We who live in prison, and in whose lives there is no event but sorrow, have to measure time by throbs of pain, and the record of bitter moments.
