Oscar Wilde Quotes
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To me, eyewear goes way beyond being a prescription. It's like makeup. It's the most incredible accessory. The shape of a frame or the color of lenses can change your whole appearance.
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The way through the world is more difficult to find than the way beyond it.
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I was in culinary school for a little while, but it was just too hard to cut weight and cook at the same time.
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It makes sense to invest in new work. It's almost like having a research department in a scientific laboratory. You have to try things out. You'll make some bad mistakes. Some things will fail but at least you'll energise the organisation.
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A woman is as old as she looks before breakfast.
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To be honest with you, I've been dying to do a nice indie feature - just something about a regular guy with a big quirk or a big emotional problem. Just something that's a straightforward, classic indie film. It sounds weird, but it's been easier for me to get cast in big tentpole films than the indie community. I'd love to do that.
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I'm always trying to make myself laugh. I'm the most enthusiastic audience I'm likely to find, so if it doesn't make me smile then it probably won't work on you. The jokes that only make me shrug get cut.
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I was so keen to become a comedian that actually doing the comedy itself almost came second.
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We cannot let our respect for the FBI blind us from the fact the FBI has sometimes come up short of our expectations.
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The way that people have gotten on board with me is the most encouraging thing in the world, but it's all very connected to the 14 years I've been on tour with Steel Train, even my band before that, Outline, and then fun. and now Bleachers.
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Now I can walk into a room full of people I don't know and do my job. That's quite a massive thing to learn, I think.
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I'm having a vacation, and it's so beautiful, and maybe I'll never get another film idea in my life.
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When I was young I had an apprenticeship as an engineer.
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If you can actually count your money, then you're not a rich man.
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Rome is a city where in every corner you have a reminder of the sacred world. That's why I have sacred music, minimalist sacred music, which is also music I like, because at the end of the day, that's what I want to do.
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If you have less weight, you have less strength.
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I'm a big pasta fan. I'm a big Italian food fan. Anything Italian - I love cheese, mozzarella. Mozzarella is my favorite, so I have to say anything Italian, I'll take it.
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The writer should never be ashamed of staring. There is nothing that does not require his attention.
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Low-level programming is good for the programmer's soul.
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I like being in the '60s.
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Most umpires are good about letting the argument go, but you can only go on for so long, or go so far. If you don't leave it alone after a minute or two, you're in trouble. They want to keep the game moving, so they've got to throw you out. I had trouble leaving it alone, I guess.
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The best and most popular novelists do not, as a rule, have children in their books at all, and this is wise. Parents are about the only people who are interested in children, and they merely in their own ones.
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There is a waterfall in every dream. Cool and crystal clear, it falls gently on the sleeper, cleansing the mind and soothing the soul.
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To be popular I must be mediocre.
