Oscar Wilde Quotes
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I've been married over 50 years of my life.
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I was in culinary school for a little while, but it was just too hard to cut weight and cook at the same time.
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'Longmire' is more of a show about the characters, and you couldn't pay a bigger compliment than to want to know more about my character, or the characters on the show.
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The dynamic element in my philosophy, taken as a whole, can be seen as an obstinate and untiring battle against the spirit of abstraction.
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I like Thomas Jefferson, though he intimidated me. I thought he would have been very tough to be around. I don't know if he had such a sense of humor.
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God isn't really interested in our batting averages.
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I have moved to a smaller house in Paris, and I don't fancy having so much staff now.
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'Life as a Dog' is when I really started to feel comfortable, like I had the due north on my compass.
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Wars and elections are both too big and too small to matter in the long run. The daily work - that goes on, it adds up.
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I don't want to go slumming in somebody else's pain just to write a book. I want to go into those darker places to shine a light on that experience and come out with a story that validates the human spirit.
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Science must begin with myths, and with the criticism of myths.
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I worry about everything in the world, and it's just too much for anybody to think about, so I have my art as my consolation.
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There's so much bullying with young people and them feeling like they can't come out, and they don't know what to do. And it's something that you have to work through. And, you know, for me, it was - I came out, and then I went back in for a minute. And then I came out, and I was like, 'You know what? This is who I am.'
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But I have had the luxury of working on good films with great people.
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I don't think I realized the extremes of my proportions until I moved to Paris. I thought I'd be 'normal' as a model, but actually, even in that world, I was at one end of the spectrum.
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There can be a lot of mind games going on between the players. When you're about to serve, people will try to throw you off your rhythm by taking a walk. If you're tired, you can't show that at all to an opponent.
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In films people basically work for the camera, you know, and that's why actors can hate each other and not be speaking to each other and still look as if they're in love because really they're loving the camera loving them.
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Game theorists analyze negotiations as if they were split-a-pie games involving selfish players.
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You can't do things unexpected in life if you're not willing to take a risk, and it's easier to risk your own life than it is for your parent to watch you take risks. It's very, very hard for parents to see children doing things that aren't a solid path. I've been through that.
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The salvation of this human world lies nowhere else than in the human heart, in the human power to reflect, in human meekness and human responsibility.
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You don't need a vacation when there's nothing to escape from.
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I think first impressions are important when you pick up a script.
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Lean on principles, one day they'll end up giving way.
