Oscar Wilde Quotes
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I spend my life essentially alone at a computer. That doesn't change. I have the same challenges every day.
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Even when you write it, someone's got to play it. So if you can play it and bypass all the rest of the things, you're still doing as great as someone that has spent forty years trying to find out how to do that. I'm really pro-human beings, pro-expression of everything.
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You know, I'm kind of a wild crazy workaholic guy.
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If you write a novel alone you sit and you weave a little narrative. And it's O.K., but it's of no account.
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There's a certain kind of behavior in the Arab world that, to me, resembles the way young men behave when there is no significant influence from women in their lives.
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Brunch, for me, is an extended breakfast that should be enjoyed whenever you have time properly to engage in cooking and eating.
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I designed all the characters, anyway, and Frank Doyle was doing all the writing. I didn't have any more input on what direction they were going to go with Josie.
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I always say spend more on classics, like a good pair of leather trousers, an amazing tailored jacket, or a classic handbag. Then you can just mix your everyday tops from the high street.
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Power says if you are a committee chairman, your idea is good only because you have got power.
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No art is less spontaneous than mine. What I do is the result of reflection and the study of the great masters.
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I love that I'm rarely recognized. I like it because I know I can look different from film to film.
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I secretly wanted to act. I also wanted be a toy designer and make puppets.
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Everyone knows that there are more people watching any given show than is being registered by the Nielsen system.
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The level of dynamism is a matter of how fertile the country is in coming up with innovative ideas having prospects of profitability, how adept it is at identifying and nourishing the ideas with the best prospects, and how prepared it is in evaluating and trying out the new products and methods that are launched onto the market.
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My dad is often horrified by what I've spent my money on.
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I eat the same foods almost every day. I have my favorites like Filipino beef broth, chicken soup with lots and lots of rice.
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Even when I turn 60, they'll call me a child actor.
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I wanted to tell a romantic and dark side of Ottoman history that was also slightly political, saying to the previous generation of writers, 'Look, I'm interested in Ottoman things, and I'm not afraid of it, and I'm doing something creative.'
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Joe Torre would tell you to make sure you can hit the ball on the outside part of the plate.
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And then, on September 11, the world fractured. It's beyond my skill as a writer to capture that day and the days that would follow--the planes, like specters, vanishing into steel and glass; the slow-motion cascade of the towers crumbling into themselves; the ash-covered figures wandering the streets; the anguish and the fear. Nor do I pretend to understand the stark nihilism that drove the terrorists that day and that drives their brethren still. My powers of empathy, my ability to reach into another's heart, cannot penetrate the blank stares of those would murder innocents with abstract, serene satisfaction.
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Young people have so many emotions growing up. If you don't feel accepted, you start sneaking around and engaging in dangerous practices.
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As the senior commander in Vietnam, I was aware of the potency of public opinion - and I worried about it.
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The gods bestowed on Max the gift of perpetual old age.
