Oscar Wilde Quotes
We spend our days, each one of us, in looking for the secret of life. Well, the secret of life is in Art.
Quotes to Explore
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After the success of my first album and the success of 'Flow Joe' kind of faded, I was struggling to make some money and make ends meet.
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There are minds so impatient of inferiority that their gratitude is a species of revenge, and they return benefits, not because recompense is a pleasure, but because obligation is a pain.
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Once you're signed to a label you compromise.
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The more you are getting older, you lose a little something. Of course there is another advantage, because of your long experience you can use it.
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As someone who is in awe and grateful every day to be in a country where freedom of the press, free speech and free elections are a way of life, I am wowed, amazed and excited by the opportunity to moderate a 2012 presidential debate.
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Luckily, I was raised by people who'd already seen all the yuck stuff, which is why they originally didn't want me to act. I understood the difference between getting a part at a Hollywood party and getting a job.
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The lack of a consistent policy from major economies is the main source of volatility.
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I find the whole situation of confronting an audience terrifying.
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When I first decided to launch a clothing line, I was pregnant with my daughter Spencer-Margaret, so I looked for a retailer with values that mirrored my own growing family concerns. Kmart is a family store where value-conscious moms shop, so my partnership with Kmart seemed like a natural fit.
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Even an animal, if you show genuine affection, gradually trust develops... If you always showing bad face and beating, how can you develop friendship?
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My mum and I do cardio kickboxing classes together.
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Not long ago I made a list of Doc Ford books I would like to do, and I came up with 11 pretty easily. I like to let the characters go their own ways and see what happens. I find them fascinating.
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If you eat something and get fat, you should be responsible for it. I think that is the attitude of the great majority of Americans, that you should be responsible for what you eat.
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The ability to calibrate risk doesn't happen rationally.
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I would love to do some more comedy. I would love to do some silliness. I would love to do some characters that have greater vulnerability.
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Weeks go by, and I don't talk to another living soul.
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Books serve to show a man that those original thoughts of his aren't very new at all.
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True nostalgia is an ephemeral composition of disjointed memories.
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You can work really hard and well on something, and someone you respect might hate it; worse, they're not empirically wrong for doing so. This is scary, especially for people who haven't been published.
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If there is one recipe for unhappiness it is that: expectations.
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Almost every culture has its own variation on chicken soup, and rightly so - it's one of the most gratifying dishes on the face of the Earth.
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I'm drawn to villains that are three-dimensional and raw and that I can kind of see in my own life.
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Thought is a strenuous art - few practice it, and then only at rare times.
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We spend our days, each one of us, in looking for the secret of life. Well, the secret of life is in Art.
