Oscar Wilde Quotes
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Directors are our teachers, and I'm always craving to work with a great director. They're pretty much the first thing that interests me about a project. Let's put it this way: It'll take me a lot longer to read a script if there's no director attached.
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I was raised in Argentina until I was 11 and now I go back there a lot, at least twice a year. It's a country where I feel very comfortable and it represents an important period in my life.
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Traveling is one expression of the desire to cross boundaries.
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Money is our madness, our vast collective madness.
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Turquoise is my birthstone; I'm a Sagittarius.
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I will never sign to a major record label again. If, by some mega fluke, a record of mine looked like it might break big, I'd try and do it via an indie or somehow license it. I'm not having my music owned by those corporate bastards again.
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A service of worship is primarily a service to God. When we realize this and act upon it, we make it a service to men.
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Well, you know, I was through the whole of the Second World War and saw all my friends killed.
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These days, with 'American Idol' and all the other reality shows, young people become famous overnight, and that can be very difficult to handle, the way photographers follow you around and study your every move.
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I had no choice in the decision to make myself available. I was not always doing things I wanted to do.
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English people are famous for never speaking out but only saying what they really feel about you behind your back. Americans believe the shortest distance between two points is a straight line. I like exploring those, er, differences in national snippiness.
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We are known as one of the few truly antifascist families in Munich.
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As an athlete, my health has always been important to me.
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There's a group of people - maybe the secular Taliban is a good name for them - who have morphed this idea, that you have to accept my values being every bit as cherished as your values. That's not tolerance... There are too many things in this world which we sit back and tolerate.
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The sweetest thing a guy said is that I look pretty with or without makeup.
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It's unfortunate biologically we have to sleep.
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My father was very clear; I had to have an ordinary upbringing. I was put to work as a lowly-paid trainee after college. I didn't like it at the time, but I can't help but feel that that was probably the best thing for me.
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One of the things I strive for is realism. I need to be as real as possible in the dilemmas my characters face.
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I met Ray Charles at 14, and he was 16. But he was like a hundred years older than me.
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Unfunny people should be locked up, the key tossed into a smelter.
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I like to say it's an attitude of not just thinking outside the box, but not even seeing the box.
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Variety is the soul of pleasure.
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You don’t think – not possibly – not as a mere hundredth chance – there might be things that are real though we can’t see them? … If there are souls, could there not be soul-houses?
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Those who see any difference between soul and body have neither.
