Oscar Wilde Quotes
He had that curious love of green, which in individuals is always the sign of a subtle artistic temperament, and in nations is said to denote a laxity, if not a decadence of morals.
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I came to live in Shepperton in 1960. I thought: the future isn't in the metropolitan areas of London. I want to go out to the new suburbs, near the film studios. This was the England I wanted to write about, because this was the new world that was emerging.
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I don't think there was a definite day, but it would have been around my mid-20s. I was always interested in the media side of things. When we travelled with England away, or to World Cups, I used to sit with journos while they wrote their copy.
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What goes for sex goes double for politics.
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As an author, I really hate a reader like me. There's no loyalty.
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I grew up in a house full of books, and we belonged to the Country Lending Service - each month the State Library would send us a parcel of books by train.
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'Sixth Street' is probably a new chapter for me. All of the songs were written in my apartment where I'm most comfortable, and at that point, I understood who I was and knew what I was feeling about life.
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Well, when I was 13, for my bar mitzvah I received my first typewriter. And that was special.
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When we direct our thoughts properly, we can control our emotions.
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I'm a chubby middle-aged white guy with short hair. I think that's it, really. I kind of have a look. Right now, I'm not fat enough to be the fat friend, but I'm not thin enough to be the leading man, so I look like a cop.
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I love this country very much, and I'm proud to live here, but I think our current administration is extreme. These are not merely conservative people, these are extreme right-wing people.
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Now that the House of Commons is trying to become useful, it does a great deal of harm.
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Intelligence is sexy. Don't play dumb, especially young girls. Don't play dumb. And let people see that you are intelligent.
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I feel like writing a book there's always a version in your head that's an amazing version, but then you write the version that you can write.
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What I believe is that marriage is between a man and a woman, but what I also believe is that we have an obligation to make sure that gays and lesbians have the rights of citizenship that afford them visitations to hospitals, that allow them to be, to transfer property between partners, to make certain that they're not discriminated on the job.
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You can bend, but never break. Stay Unbreakable!
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Corporations cannot commit treason, or be outlawed or excommunicated, for they have no souls.
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I believe the people of the U.S. are peace-loving people.
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Let's face it, I only practice yoga because the classes are always packed with beautiful women.
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I love football, football is my life.
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My last meal on Earth, I would love it to be a bowl of blueberries with cold cream.
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The novel is the highest form of human expression so far attained. Why? Because it is so incapable of the absolute.
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There is no such thing as was - only is. If was existed, there would be no grief or sorrow.
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He had that curious love of green, which in individuals is always the sign of a subtle artistic temperament, and in nations is said to denote a laxity, if not a decadence of morals.
