Oscar Wilde Quotes
I have made an important discovery... that alcohol, taken in sufficient quantities, produces all the effect of intoxication.
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Let's judge a man on what he's done.
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Sometimes you have to go up really high to understand how small you really are.
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My grandfather milked several cows twice a day and supplied the neighbours with dairy products. He liked to go visiting around the county on Saturdays, and he also enjoyed the neighbours when they came by once a week with their empty milk jars. He walked them out to their cars and hung over the driver's side window until they drove off.
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It's tough when you have to be away. But I'm probably at home more than my dad was because he was working two or three jobs sometimes.
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When the British became Christian, Christianity in no way altered their political organisation.
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I used to write bits and pieces of comedy material for various comics that were at the Windmill... as well as my film job, I was under contract, I was allowed to do that and everything.
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Ulysses, obviously. It was an elaborate prank, and our supposed intellectual elite continue to fall for it.
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I do love traveling, so I've been able to travel a lot.
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Horrors, I believe, should be original - the use of common myths and legends being a weakening influence.
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Learning should be a joy and full of excitement. It is life's greatest adventure; it is an illustrated excursion into the minds of the noble and the learned.
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I don't like to take a lot of stuff since I'm really sensitive to medications.
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I'm a bit of a perfectionist. I'll watch myself back on 'Xtra Factor' and want to do it again because of a few hiccups.
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It is faith that drives us to build, a belief that we cannot be limited by lack of nerve or airspace.
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I don't think people are fools, and I think they deserve a good attitude and smart entertainment.
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The great fun for me is these collaborators. I'm nothing by myself. Being with these people, whether it's the 'Homeland' cast or stage collaborators, they make you everything you are. They make you come to work. They make you be alive.
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The way to resumption is to resume.
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I always felt like Tahliah's a very grown-up name to have. It's a pretty name when you're young, and then I think when I became a young lady, it felt kind of like a lot to grow into for some reason. I don't know. It sounds kind of regal. I never really liked it. I always felt like I couldn't live up to it.
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I don't know how I got involved in 'Celebrity Wife Swap.' It came from my agent Hugh. He got the opportunity for me.
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I am grateful to theatre for making me what I am today. But it's not like theatre is my first love. I am equally attached to cinema, which is, actually, a child of theatre, since it borrows heavily from it.
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The Holiday Inn Express brand is known for great service, comfortable beds, all-you-can-eat ice from machines at every hotel, so I was pretty excited when they asked me to be a part of their Smart Thinking Platform.
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You may not quite understand the cinematic tricks that go behind the making of a film, but as long as you feel it, I think that's the important thing.
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I thought we played with a lot of passion and very hard. It was very important for our seniors to play that way, but it wasn't enough, especially on defense.
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Bint-Anath was approaching, her many-pleated, floor-length sheath floating scarlet around her, her slim shoulders visible under a billowing white flounced cloak, and the long black ringlets of her wig already glistening with melted wax... She was like a goddess, like Hathor herself, moving lightly in the circle of reverence the guests had provided, her pair of massive Shardana guards towering beside her and her exquisitely gowned and painted retinue behind.
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I have made an important discovery... that alcohol, taken in sufficient quantities, produces all the effect of intoxication.
