Oscar Wilde Quotes
There are moments when one has to choose between living one's own life, fully, entirely, completely-or dragging out some false, shallow, degrading existence that the world in its hypocrisy demands.
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I have a vernacular house on the seaside in Northumberland and an Edwardian semi in south Manchester. They're both exactly as big as they need to be. I can't be doing with an ostentatious, big house - you can only be in one room at a time.
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The personal ego already has a strong element of dysfunction, but the collective ego is, frequently, even more dysfunctional, to the point of absolute insanity.
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I've been disappointed by so many movie stars that I've seen, and they go out and they don't do it up, you know. And they don't - I just get so disappointed.
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It was my mother's idea. Her feeling was that I didn't have the intelligence to pick a trade myself.
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You can't embarrass Joss Whedon, he's got no pride! He fully admits it. 'Oh, it's me. I'm little and goofy.' You can't wound his pride. He's too self-deprecating.
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A man will turn over half a library to make one book.
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I had to make different kinds of music for everybody but still keep it classic T-Pain at the same time.
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I learned that when you stand up for what you believe in, you'll get a lot of support. But there are always going to be negative things said about you.
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I think I just have a natural operatic aesthetic. I can't help it.
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I don't really shop any more. I only do it when I have to. I think it is very overrated.
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Truth never damages a cause that is just.
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Humor can be an incredible, lacerating and effective weapon.
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I feel I'm a strange mixture of insecurity and strength. Most of us, probably most people. I'm transferring that same concept to the people I photograph.
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I don't want to set the world up for surprises.
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The challenge with 'Watchmen' is making sure that the ideas that were in the book got into the movie. That was my biggest stretch. I wanted people to watch the movie and get it. It's one of those things where, over time, it has happened more.
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It's hard to write a comedy sketch.
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They drove a long way through the snowy woods, till they came to the town of Pepin. Mary and Laura had seen it once before, but it looked different now.
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If anybody's getting a shot, somebody's getting a shot against me because I'm the guy to beat.
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I never thought of myself as a performer or songwriter or singer.
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And if you think my acts are foolishness the foolishness may be in a fool's eye.
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It is essential for world peace that the world religions make peace with each other. If they don't, we can hardly expect the nations of the world to lay down their arms.
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I like entertainment and think mastery is good, though I don't feel like a master. If a theme means having a story that's legible, then that's certainly what we do. But we don't treat design as an add-on layer.
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Sorrow was made for man, not for beasts; yet if men encourage melancholy too much, they become no better than beasts.
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There are moments when one has to choose between living one's own life, fully, entirely, completely-or dragging out some false, shallow, degrading existence that the world in its hypocrisy demands.
