Oscar Wilde Quotes
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My parents have a strong work ethic, but their attitude to life, their philosophy, is: 'whatever makes you happy.'
Sally Hawkins -
You really are being quite foolish to smoke.
Iain Glen -
A lot of women find that their workwear acts as armour.
Kate Reardon -
The breaking wave and the muscle as it contracts obey the same law. Delicate line gathers the body's total strength in a bold balance. Shall my soul meet so severe a curve, journeying on its way to form?
Dag Hammarskjold -
Art breathes into life a surplus that is both vital and extraordinary.
Rachel Kushner -
This process is alchemy: its founder is the smith Vulcan.
Paracelsus
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I really hate to write.
Jack Kerouac -
There is none who cannot teach somebody something, and there is none so excellent but he is excelled.
Baltasar Gracian -
Growing up, I was always in normal public school which is very important in my eyes.
Tahj Mowry -
There are a bunch of places to stay in Des Moines, but I'd suggest finding a place on the west side of town. It's a great urban area that has a lot to offer tourists.
Zach Johnson The Fray -
People always say that Randy Moss can't stick to the rules. Even my own rules.
Randy Moss -
Television offered me the opportunity to do new things; I had written a lot of scripts other than scary movies. I had actually written some romantic comedies and stuff that I really wanted to try my hand at, and nobody would let me do that. Television allowed me to do anything I wanted.
Gary Sherman
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I really believe great actors, even with disease and age, can be great.
Olivier Martinez -
I can be very hard on myself, very demanding.
Yuan Yuan Tan -
I like people, and I like listening to them because something that'll happen out of that conversation could be the title or the subject of the song.
Babyface -
My mom could be pretty strict.
Gaby Hoffmann -
I didn't make any money from my writing until much later. I published about 80 stories for nothing. I spent on literature.
Naguib Mahfouz -
While on top of Everest, I looked across the valley towards the great peak Makalu and mentally worked out a route about how it could be climbed. It showed me that even though I was standing on top of the world, it wasn't the end of everything. I was still looking beyond to other interesting challenges.
Edmund Hillary
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Maven is very much a haunting presence in 'Glass Sword.' His influence is everywhere, and he dogs Mare and Cal like no other. He's my favorite character to write because he's so complex, but also because he affects everyone else so deeply. He's kind of like the source of gravity. Everyone moves around him and what he's done.
Victoria Aveyard -
Each year, I write out a goal sheet with what I expect. If I showed anybody else my goal sheet, they would have said I was crazy.
J. J. Watt -
For no man can forbid the spark nor tell whence it may come.
Francis Bacon -
A man prepared has half fought the battle.
Miguel de Cervantes -
Every now and then I hear voices in my head, but not very clear. I can't understand what they are saying. It's a mental illness. I have been diagnosed as a manic depressive.
Brian Wilson -
Man is many things, but he is not rational.
Oscar Wilde