Oscar Wilde Quotes
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I was taught from a very early age that I had to work twice as hard to get half as much. That was the world I grew up in - a very strong work ethic.
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When I go back to New York all these years later, I'll walk down Seventh Avenue, and I'll hear, 'Yo, Oz!' In New York, I get recognized for that all the time.
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I voted for Barack Obama.
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Judge of your natural character by what you do in your dreams.
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I feel like we all have our skeletons.
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I realized what interested me as a student of film was one thing and the movies that I liked were another.
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I really appreciate people like Rosie coming out and saying I've inspired them.
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Whither goest thou, America, in thy shiny car in the night?
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I've started doing my coaching badges, I'd like to be a manager one day.
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All things must come to the soul from its roots, from where it is planted.
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I might bump into them because I live in Belfast, and Belfast is not that big a place. You go for a walk, and you walk past Kit Harington. You go for a meal, and there's Peter Dinklage.
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I grew up in a family where the women were just nuts. They didn't stand around in cardigans making polite conversation while they chopped tomatoes.
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If 'Deadwood' had gone on another two years, I wouldn't have got as many movies made.
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Everything I've ever written, I had a very distinct vision of what I wanted it to look like. But, other directors never do it that way.
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I just try to be myself, whatever that is. I don't think about how I'll be remembered. I just want to be consistent over a long period of time. That's what the great players do.
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Girls are going to school again in Swat Valley. And that is great.
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When I was 16 or 17, I started listening to Death Cab, and I started writing my own songs. I was writing alternative rock, and I had a seven-piece band. The shift was just iterations of experimentation and finding what sounded right. When I stumbled on the sound and vibe that I currently have, it was kind of by chance.
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I do believe that all of the world needs reform. The reform must take place everywhere.
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The thing that bothers me about journalism is the false equivalency we sometimes place on certain issues.
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Airport security is a particular bugbear. At the risk of sounding like a grumpy old man, while I can see that averting terrorism is manifestly important, the measures taken seem, simultaneously, absurd.
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If I don't do something constructive every day, I feel like I have wasted my time, and I almost feel guilty for not doing something I could have learned from.
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I'm amazed every time I come back to Vancouver at how much it's changed. You go away for a month and there's three more skyscrapers.
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I always wanted to be a scientist, I always thought I'd be a scientist, that was the narrative I was carrying around. I worked in a neuroscience lab as an undergraduate and then after, almost five years in total, but I realized I just wasn't good at science. I didn't have the discipline for it.
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I have met a lot of hardboiled eggs in my time, but you're twenty minutes.
