Oscar Wilde Quotes
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Awards don't really mean much.
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I have dedicated many years to economic study, up to the Ph.D. level, to analyze and understand the inherent weaknesses of aid and why aid policies have consistently failed to deliver on economic growth and poverty alleviation.
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I have to stay calm, cool, and collected.
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There have been weeks when I've not been hydrating properly or not eating properly or training too hard. When I do that, I don't feel good. It has to be the exact formula.
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Well, after the divorce, I went home and turned all the lights on!
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Our quarterbacks were getting hurt; a couple got kicked out of school. The coach asked who wanted to try out for QB. I went and tried out, and from there on, I was a quarterback. I was ineligible in 10th grade until spring, so I did baseball. I started in left field and pitched.
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My mother helped me identify myself the way the world would identify me. Bloodlines didn't matter as much as how I would be perceived.
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My job as the actress playing Hanna Schmitz, as the actress playing any part, is to understand the character, and to ultimately love the character. And I did love Hanna, absolutely, because I understood her as profoundly as I did at the end of the day.
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I've had a dozen novels published and have made far more than a dozen mistakes. Which is why Randy Susan Meyers and I wrote a guidebook to help authors avoid making our mistakes.
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Anybody can do a deal. The tough part is doing the deal at the right time, being strategic.
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Sense About Science is much more than an innocent fact-checking service. It is a spin-off of a bizarre political network that began life as the ultra-left Revolutionary Communist Party and switched over to extreme corporate libertarianism when it launched 'Living Marxism' magazine in the late eighties.
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I am pretty hard on myself. But I think that's how it has to be if you want to keep growing as an actor.
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I think if you are creative then it's an unstoppable thing. It just keeps coming throughout your entire life.
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In every European nation, there have been problems in history when the society was too divided.
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I like to look strong and commanding.
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But things move in circles: one minute it's the models who are famous, then it's the actresses, then it's the designers.
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I know I always had a lot of energy growing up and I had to put it somewhere. Theater allowed me to really feel things, to laugh, to cry, to explode outward. I could do anything and it was totally accepted and appreciated. If I hadn't gone into the theater, I probably would have been a psychotic killer.
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If you carry joy in your heart, you can heal any moment.
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I can't remember a time when I didn't want to be in show business!
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I arrived in Hollywood twenty pounds overweight and as strong as an ox.
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I think we do have cyclic changes in weather, and I think that's been throughout the course of history.
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I always kind of see how I want things to be better, and I'm generally not happy with how things are or the level of service that we're providing for people or the quality of the teams that we built. But if you look at this objectively, we're doing so well on so many of these things. I think it's important to have gratitude for that.
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If you think about the traditional mafia stories we grew up on, it is always about the death of criminal organisations - things like the 'Sopranos' - the last vestiges of once proud families subsumed by the modern era.
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To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all.
