Oscar Wilde Quotes
Things are in their essence what we choose to make them. A thing is, according to the mode in which one looks at it.
Oscar Wilde
Quotes to Explore
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I'm very drawn to characters who are very flawed. I'm less interested in characters who are just good or bad, because to me then they're not real people.
Rachel Weisz
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A lot of artists don't like the sound of their voice. They're put off by it.
Narada Michael Walden
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'Jaws' was the definitive filmmaking turning point for me. It came out in the summer of '75 and I saw it an obsessive 55 times. They even ran a very embarrassing article about me in the local paper, about the weird kid who's seen 'Jaws' 55 times.
Victor Salva
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The only two characters I can play convincingly are myself and a dumber and sweeter version of myself.
Zach Anner
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In domestic life, the woman's value is inherent, unquantifiable; at home she exchanges proven values for mythological ones. She 'wants' to be at home, and because she is a woman, she's allowed to want it. This desire is her mystique, it is both what enables her to domesticate herself and what disempowers her.
Rachel Cusk
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As long as I have a heartbeat, I'm fine. So I just do what I love, and I do it the best that I can. And if it all goes away, I'll just start over.
Pardis Sabeti
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Persistent practice alone is the key to yoga. As you take pains to learn, continue with devotion what you have learn.
Bellur Krishnamachar Sundararaja Iyengar
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The isolation spins its mysterious cocoon, focusing the mind on one place, one time, one rhythm - the turning of the light. The island knows no other human voices, no other footprints. On the Offshore Lights you can live any story you want to tell yourself, and no one will say you're wrong: not the seagulls, not the prisms, not the wind.
M. L. Stedman
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My first undertaking in the way of scientific experiment was in the field of economics and psychology.
Simon Newcomb
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But my favorite period for actors is the 70s. I think so many great movies were made in the 70s. The 90s just seem to be a confused decade. Nobody knows, really, what's going on.
Ethan Suplee
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Things are in their essence what we choose to make them. A thing is, according to the mode in which one looks at it.
Oscar Wilde