Oscar Wilde Quotes
The play was a great success, but the audience was a disaster.
Oscar Wilde
Quotes to Explore
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If women's rights are a problem for some modern Muslim men, it is neither because of the Quran nor the Prophet, nor the Islamic tradition, but simply because those rights conflict with the interests of a male elite.
Fatema Mernissi
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I do take this insane pleasure in world-building. I get the world in my head, but I have to make sure everyone else gets it.
Samantha Shannon
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The first concert that my parents took me to was in this canyon in Saudi Arabia called Buttermilk Canyon. You sleep under the stars in the desert, and ex-pats - German, Swiss, Canadian, American - would play classical music that filled the whole canyon.
Hannah Simone
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I'm cold in summer. I'm the coldest person ever! It's very ironic I'm never cold in the scripts. Every time I'm shooting, if you don't see a part of me, there are hot water bottles there.
Carice van Houten
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Call me crazy - I love elk meat!
Zoe Saldana
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God has taken care of me, and mother dear has taken care of me, too. All my life.
Barbara Lynn
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I've seen every highway in the United States, and they all look alike to me.
Loretta Lynn
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In our local Baptist church, I sang in the choir and formed a gospel quartet. When our minister caught me messing with his guitar, he taught me three positions – one, four and five. After that, I taught myself to play.
B. B. King
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Thanks to the success of Henning Mankell and Peter Hoeg, there wasn't the same stigma attached to writing genre thrillers in Scandinavia as there was in many other cultures. Quite the opposite, in fact.
Jo Nesbo
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What we fear doing most is usually what we most need to do. As I have heard said, a person's success in life can usually be measured by the number of uncomfortable conversations he or she is willing to have. Resolve to do one thing every day that you fear. I got into this habit by attempting to contact celebrities and famous businesspeople for advice.
Tim Ferriss
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I loved working with Jamie Lee Curtis, and I felt she was a wonderful actress even that early in her career.
Donald Pleasence
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The play was a great success, but the audience was a disaster.
Oscar Wilde