Oscar Wilde Quotes
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When 'our people' get to the point where they can do us some good, they stop being 'our people.'
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On the evidence I have on hand at home, social media isn't killing our children. It isn't killing families, either, because the constant long bloody phone calls that parents complained to their teenagers about in decades past are gone.
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When I get to work with someone like Prabhu Dheva at the beginning on my career, why would I say no?
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I've never been to the websites. It's a lot healthier for me to keep out of the conversations about me.
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The most valuable thing you can make is a mistake - you can't learn anything from being perfect.
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There are certain things I believe we need to keep in our emotional arsenal as we navigate through life. Hope is a big one. The more of that we can carry, the better.
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I grew up playing in youth orchestras, so they were my most treasured memories, so to be in front of an orchestra playing my own material would be incredible.
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I don't think I ever really knew the right words to 'Hava Nagilah,' which isn't great for a Jewish singer.
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America is woven of many strands. I would recognise them and let it so remain. Our fate is to become one, and yet many. This is not prophecy, but description.
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He had delusions of adequacy.
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I just like the insides of things and finding ways into microscopic worlds. There's also an element of control, taking things apart and putting them back together. It's a very tedious task. You can be alone and create a world for yourself.
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I'll have to self-publish it because unless you're on the 'New York Times' bestseller lists, anthologies don't sell all that well. However, low sales to a big publisher are a major success to a small one!
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I think things happened the way they did for a reason.
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Making movies is time-consuming and it's boring. You spend most of your time waiting between takes. It's like a big machine that moves slowly.
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I'm a total performer.
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Hold me close and tell me how you feel Tell me love is real.
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Had I accepted the pickle juice, I would be drinking pickle juice right now.
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I'm many things, most of 'em bad. But a man of political principles? No.
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That's the thing about me. I prefer things once they're already over and I'm working on understanding them. I wish I were faster at that - like, I could understand things while they're happening - but I always have to read the whole book and write the entire paper before I even know what the hell I'm thinking.
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You've got to be known for what you're running on, what principles.
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There is, indeed, nothing that so much seduces reason from vigilance, as the thought of passing life with an amiable woman.
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I don't like principles. I prefer prejudices.
