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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I have a 60-acre farm in North Carolina, and I have a tractor and a farmhouse. As soon as I groom the land, I want to put cabins around and have a place where people can write and hang out. It'll be either that or an all-black nudist colony.
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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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I had toured so much in the 1960s and 1970s that I wanted a break. I didn't go back touring until 1995.
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When not much is happening and there seems to be nothing you can do to change that, you do wonder. But I am an actor, like it or not. I stuck with it and took what was offered.
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If you don't like what you're getting back in life, take a look at what you're putting out.
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In order for President Obama, Hillary Clinton, and Joe Biden to be moderates, they just have to present themselves between the extremes of Kentucky Sen. Rand Paul's isolationism and Florida Sen. Marco Rubio's hawkishness - the difference between living in a cave or conducting ourselves so that we're in need of one.
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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.
