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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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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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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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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The thing that bothers me about journalism is the false equivalency we sometimes place on certain issues.
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I don't really try to tell people whether they should fight. It's definitely not for everybody.
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This is the voice of Vietnam Broadcasting from Hanoi, capitol of the Democratic republic of Vietnam.
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Acting was always my unscratched itch, when I was in college and even afterwards.
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I grew up in South Central Los Angeles in the '80s, back when it just wasn't a cool scene. But my mother had the foresight to look for a number of projects that would keep us away from the streets.
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The best I can say is that it's better for me to write about despair and darkness than to be incapable of getting off the sofa. It's better to write about suicide than to contemplate it too heavily.
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Never stay in a bad marriage, and don't hang around with psycho coke fiends.
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Hula-hooping. It makes me feel free. My stepsister introduced me to it. I used to have panic attacks all the time, and she hula-hooped to cope with her own anxiety.
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I doubt if you can have a truly wild party without liquor.
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I have met a lot of hardboiled eggs in my time, but you're twenty minutes.
