Oscar Wilde Quotes
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I turned down a lot of films.
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I think that a lot of women that know they're going to be part of history somehow decide to have a character to be remembered by.
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I like playing sort-of-crazy people. There's something really, really fun about that.
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I'm not an American, but I have this weird connection to America in different ways through my dad living here for five years, my godfather being an American who I'm very close to.
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God manifests himself in each historical period according to the understanding of the people of the era.
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Nature builds things that are antifragile. In the case of evolution, nature uses disorder to grow stronger. Occasional starvation or going to the gym also makes you stronger, because you subject your body to stressors and gain from them.
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Don't be surprised if you find me doing some charity work in another country.
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Yes, my parents are strict about me having a childhood. I go ice skating and sledding, and swimming in the summer.
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If you were successful, somebody along the line gave you some help... Somebody helped to create this unbelievable American system that we have that allowed you to thrive. Somebody invested in roads and bridges. If you've got a business - you didn't build that. Somebody else made that happen.
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I'm not used to not having enough time to live with the songs. Usually, if I write something, I live with it for a little while.
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You've got to understand, people are motivated by fun. And they should be.
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You don't have to find out what someone's mechanical abilities are. All those factors are already a known commodity. I've seen teams win championships and have their entire team quit the next day because they weren't happy.
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I try to just talk about human stories and what I think about religion or teapots or whatever.
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My father did irrigation jobs, and I would sometimes accompany him, and that gave me a taste of what was going on in the innards of India.
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I thought I would lose, so I didn't prepare a speech.
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Clark Gable seemed fascinating all his life because there wasn't so much information about him. Today, you're on television all the time.
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I bartended for a catering company for two or three years.
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I had an audition where Josh Brolin was pelting me with his personality. I didn't get the part.
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[When asked how tall she is:] I'm five feet, 15 inches.
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The fans have been really good to me. I thank everyone for all the support.
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It was fantastic to work in Cornwall partly because my family live there so I was able to do lots of visiting and eat lots of cake. They live all over Cornwall and all over Devon.
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Of course you'll live, red-haired lady of my heart: in the twentieth century grief lasts at most a year.
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I live with someone, actor Peter Krause, who didn't find an interest in being an actor until the very end of college. So my message is: There's so much freedom left. There's no ticking clock. It's just not true.
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We live in an age when unnecessary things are our only necessities.
