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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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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As a young girl I think I wanted to be a horse woman. I loved horses.
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That's how you get surprises, because what movies are all about is surprises.
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The hypothesis that economic organization is the resultant of a series of historic accidents is intructive in that many organizational innovations appear to be the result of trial and error.
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The possibility of being as free with the camera as we are with the pen is a fantastic prospect for the creative life of the 21st century.
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I have concluded that Literature is no proper pursuit for a gentleman and that Writing ought never to be consider'd but as an elegant Accomplishment to be indulg'd in with infrequency and Discrimination.
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What's important to have is a president that's focused on jobs, the economy, giving our children a better future and keeping our nation strong and safe.
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Lean on principles, one day they'll end up giving way.
