Oscar Wilde Quotes
The fatal errors of life are not due to man's being unreasonable: an unreasonable moment may be one's finest moment. They are due to man's being logical.
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If I had to study and work hard, it would have to have the reward of a lot of cash.
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They don't have a lot of appointment viewing. What television depends on, one thing 'Larry King Live' was - whether you liked it, didn't like it - it was appointment viewing.
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I just cannot imagine why anyone would want to be really famous. You go to a restaurant and people are pointing at you and they talk about you and they whisper and it is very disconcerting; it is a very odd feeling.
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I don't think that I ever believed that poetry would be a career. I have always thought of poems as something more private than professional... I would never introduce myself as a poet. I will always have some other thing that I am.
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There's such a preoccupation with liquidity and such an unwillingness to invest beyond the horizon of the next quarter and making sure that the CEOs hit their quarterly earnings.
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I have to stay calm, cool, and collected.
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We don't want to be treated any differently, and we want to continue with our lives and our careers.
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But I'm more interested in why people are frightened by Jaws and why Jaws was such a hit than saying Spielberg's my main influence.
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I think if one wants to be in a continual state of insanity one should stay married to that writing partner.
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I've been designing since I was 8. I started sketching dresses I could wear when skating. I was always involved in all aspects of skating, not just the technique, the choreography, the music, but the visual aspects, too - what I should wear.
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In studio films, everything has to be boxed in, everybody needs to know beforehand - this is comedy, this is sci-fi, this is drama - and what's the point of independent film if you don't get to experiment?
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Custom reconciles us to everything.
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I had to make peace with my past because I can't change it.
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If your desk isn't cluttered, you probably aren't doing your job.
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I don't drink. I don't like it. It makes me feel good.
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If you want to meet a woman, it's best just to smile and say hi.
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The problem with dragons is that everyone uses them. All the time. When that happens, they become commonplace. A lot of people think you can just throw them into a story and suddenly whatever you're writing is 28% cooler. But that doesn't work. All that does is make dragons into some boring cliche.
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Every time you pass a law, it is a little bite out of freedom.
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When somebody keeps telling you, 'This book is amazing,' you sort of have this pleasing instinct to say, 'Oh, let me make you happy again; let me do that trick again.'
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I enjoy doing very high mileages, partly out of masochism and also because I like to feel the shape of the landscape.
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Something that's such a joy in my life every day - cooking - is this incredible, horrific danger to women around the world.
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Women have an instinct for what the market is. We have tremendous insight in terms of understanding products and consumerism.
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The fatal errors of life are not due to man's being unreasonable: an unreasonable moment may be one's finest moment. They are due to man's being logical.
