Oscar Wilde Quotes
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A state of shock is what results when a gap opens up between events and our initial ability to explain them. When we find ourselves in that position, without a story, without our moorings, a great many people become vulnerable to authority figures telling us to fear one another and relinquish our rights for the greater good.
Naomi Klein -
I am healthy and happy.
Candice Swanepoel -
I don't have a telephone. If I had a lot of money, I wouldn't have one.
Sam Crawford -
I am blessed to have worked in big-budget films at an early stage of my career.
Rakul Preet Singh -
When a writer declares that his first book is his best, that is bad. I progress successively from book to book.
Mahmoud Darwish -
When you're young and queer and closeted, you can end up in this place where you regard your straight peers as the enemy.
Dan Savage
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I find the whole situation of confronting an audience terrifying.
Sam Shepard -
A lot of people who want to cook with less fat are surprised by that. You can cook vegetables in a little water in a covered pan and then throw the fat into the residual liquid to coat them.
Sally Schneider -
I've seen descriptions of advanced TV systems in which a simulation of reality is computer-controlled; the TV viewer of the future will wear a special helmet. You'll no longer be an external spectator to fiction created by others, but an active participant in your own fantasies/dramas.
J. G. Ballard -
Every city is always changing, on its own trajectory.
Olafur Eliasson -
A child learns to discard his ideals, whereas a grown-up never wears out his short pants.
Karl Kraus -
I realized that if my thoughts immediately affect my body, I should be careful about what I think. Now if I get angry, I ask myself why I feel that way. If I can find the source of my anger, I can turn that negative energy into something positive.
Yoko Ono
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Eventually you just have to realize that you're living for an audience of one. I'm not here for anyone else's approval.
Pamela Anderson -
Being a woman in music was fine, but when I wanted to direct, I was poking my head into a man's world.
Barbra Streisand -
I never said I wanted to be a lead actress; I never said I wanted to be a film actress. This need to trump everyone bewilders me. I'm only 25. I'm not better than anyone. I just want to watch other people and learn to be good.
Carey Mulligan -
I just try to be myself, whatever that is. I don't think about how I'll be remembered. I just want to be consistent over a long period of time. That's what the great players do.
Dan Marino -
When I saw rappers in the '90s cameo in films - all of those '90s rappers - it seemed like whenever you chucked a rapper in a film, they could just act. It seemed like all rappers could act.
Watkin Tudor Jones -
The physical journey in my films is indicative of the internal journey that my characters take.
Imtiaz Ali
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I kept on hearing the voice of God saying if you are going to be the minister that your mom mentioned... then you have to act. My pulpit is acting.
Omari Hardwick -
As far as my favorite sites, I do a lot of mundane stuff on line because I travel so much.
Bruce Campbell -
I've done well over time but made lots of mistakes, too. Learn from your mistakes.
Kenneth Fisher -
Give me liberty or a bran muffin!
Colin Mochrie -
New Orleans has a lot of good food.
Lee Byung-hun -
That is the mission of art - to make us pause and look at a thing a second time.
Oscar Wilde