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.
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I am healthy and happy.
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I don't have a telephone. If I had a lot of money, I wouldn't have one.
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I am blessed to have worked in big-budget films at an early stage of my career.
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When a writer declares that his first book is his best, that is bad. I progress successively from book to book.
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When you're young and queer and closeted, you can end up in this place where you regard your straight peers as the enemy.
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I find the whole situation of confronting an audience terrifying.
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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.
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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.
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Every city is always changing, on its own trajectory.
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A child learns to discard his ideals, whereas a grown-up never wears out his short pants.
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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.
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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.
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Being a woman in music was fine, but when I wanted to direct, I was poking my head into a man's world.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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The physical journey in my films is indicative of the internal journey that my characters take.
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I think artists are aware that talking gives a songwriter so much material. If they just tell us what's happening, it's so much easier for us to write a song that's specific to them.
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I wasn't like a Hollywood child actor - 'I'm five! I can sing, I can dance, I can act! I wanna be a star!'
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If you're going to have a heart attack, mine was the kind to have. I'm thankful that it hasn't affected my output or my capacity to perform. And it has given me a lot to think and write about.
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She had a way of seeing the beauty in others, even, and perhaps most especially, when that person couldn't see it in themselves.
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That is the mission of art - to make us pause and look at a thing a second time.
