Oscar Wilde Quotes
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I just want my films to work. The hit or flop verdict really affects me. I seriously analyse what went wrong if a film turns out to be a dud!
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But, I don't know, the violence, I can't even talk about. We don't do a lot of violent shows. When I started in television, breaking a pencil was a violent act.
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I know from growing up in the spotlight, as it were, that the most important thing is your family.
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I am supposed to set an example to young players.
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I can't walk in an airport, walk into a gym, where the kids in the gym don't come to me and ask me about Allen and tell me he's their favorite player of all time. And everywhere I go in airports, people look at me, and they, 'You're Allen's coach.'
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The British Museum was our first real museum, the property of the public rather than the monarch or the church.
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I can give you a six-word formula for success: Think things through - then follow through.
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I was born and brought up in the countryside. I used to live in a sort of converted stables on the grounds of a castle, and I spent a lot of my childhood running around with a pretend sword pretending to be Robert the Bruce.
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I'd love to do a movie like 'Bullitt.'
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The wish to hurt, the momentary intoxication with pain, is the loophole through which the pervert climbs into the minds of ordinary men.
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I trust no one - that microphone, that book.
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As artists, we're always going to like the songs we just now made over the songs we made a year ago.
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You're not going to see me ever be partisan. I'll never take a position on a candidate or an issue.
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We, too, must change as circumstances evolve.
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If my client calls me and says, 'I'm going to a friend's premiere,' I'll say, 'Come over and let's do something cute.' And I won't bill them for that.
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I think most of the dinosaur specimens we find represent subadult sizes.
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My sole focus is to help bring a World Cup back to the U.S.
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I think the tone of the show has certainly changed over the years, because it's really, really hard to do something different when you have a show going on as long as this has.
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When I look back on my marriages, or the breakups, sure I know the pain I went through, but that's part of life and it has its own value.
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I think that what happened is that we grew up with the Holocaust within us. It turned us into harsh, emotionally incapable people who have become blind to what they are doing to other people. A lot of times, Holocaust abuse justifies terrible things done to the Palestinians. And you have to realize that what is going on is terrible, and that we are responsible, and we have to take responsibility - even if we are not completely responsible.
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To me it begins and ends with these psychedelic substances. The synergy of the psilocybin in the hominid diet brought us out of the animal mind and into the world of articulated speech and imagination.
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I approve of any activity that requires the wearing of special clothing.
