Oscar Wilde Quotes
The difference between literature and journalism is that journalism is unreadable and literature is not read.Oscar Wilde
Quotes to Explore
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I'm very content.
V. S. Naipaul -
I like a fresh face. I like clean skin. Fresh skin, cute color on the lip, cat eye, mascara, and I'm good to go!
Becky G -
I call myself a blues singer, but you ain't never heard me call myself a blues guitar man.
B. B. King -
I still have a fear of theater. I don't know if I will manage that. I used to do it. I developed a bit of a phobia. It's not a real phobia. I can go in and watch.
Laura Fraser -
It's not just the actor in front of the camera. And it's important to have respect for all those people that work behind the camera.
Dacre Montgomery -
They say I am a regulator and I think it is just an effort not to comply with the decree. I do not do anything except what the decree requires me to do.
Harold H. Greene
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I think you can't be really posh and be an interesting actor. I'm a bit of a posh rough.
Damian Lewis -
Bowie is a musician, but he works like a painter. Thom always thought that we should aspire to that.
Ed O'Brien Radiohead -
In America, everyone writes but no one reads. Everyone's writing all day long - sending emails, tweets, text messages; they all think they're James Cameron's Avatar, performing in some video game for which they make up the script.
Gary Shteyngart -
We deem those happy who from the experience of life have learnt to bear its ills without being overcome by them.
Carl Jung -
It was total naivety that got me to Hollywood. I thought it was going to happen straight away. I told myself 'give it 5 years, there's no way I'll be here after that if it doesn't happen'. Cut to ten years later!
Naomi Watts -
I'm used to having a camera in my face but not a camera following me.
Zlatan Ibrahimovic
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A lot of children remember seeing cartoons, 'Pinocchio' or 'Bambi' or something that breaks their heart. I remember seeing 'The Blue Angel' and it breaking my heart. It was the first time I realised there was an adult world - that adults could damage each other or destroy each other emotionally.
Sam Taylor-Wood -
Death is a zero sum game for which there is no cure.
S. Jay Olshansky -
Ignoring facts does not make them go away.
Fran Tarkenton -
We can ask ourselves why we invent God, and then, ten minutes later, we invent Satan - why? Because we need him; there's something fascinating about the other side of the coin.
Mads Mikkelsen -
In 1956, I received an invitation to a dedication of an observatory in the Soviet Union, in Soviet Armenia, as a guest of the Soviet Academy of Sciences.
Nancy Roman -
The poet speaks to all men of that other life of theirs that they have smothered and forgotten.
Edith Sitwell
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People forget that although we can pinpoint the price, we can only guess at future earnings. The past isn't much help: It simply tells whether a market was pricey or cheap.
Barry Ritholtz -
When I was a child, I grew up speaking French, I mean, in a French public school. So my first contact with literature was in French, and that's the reason why I write in French.
J. M. G. Le Clezio -
Explain to me, please, why in our literature and art so often people absolutely incompetent in this field have the final word.
Mstislav Rostropovich -
When people think of the West, it's easy to envision wagon trains, Buffalo Bill, the glory days of the Gold Rush. Cowboy hats come to mind.
John Hickenlooper -
The difference between literature and journalism is that journalism is unreadable and literature is not read.
Oscar Wilde