Oscar Wilde Quotes
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I have an ambition to write a great book, but that's really a competition with myself. I've noticed that a lot of young writers, people in all media, want to be famous but they don't really want to do anything. I can't think of anything less worth striving for than fame.
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I've raised Michael. I changed his diapers when he was little.
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To be really great in little things, to be truly noble and heroic in the insipid details of everyday life, is a virtue so rare as to be worthy of canonization.
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I'm still coming to terms with what it's like to have people follow your personal life as well as your public life. It gets amusing.
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I take my kids to school... I make them breakfast. Unfortunately, dad is a big spoiler, and most days, I make four different breakfasts.
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I like to be supportive and a role model.
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Obviously it's more fun having my teammates there and having all that camaraderie, but individual workouts are not a loss.
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I like Disney Channel a lot, and I also like to watch 'Full House.'
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Most practical jokes, I'll feel too bad for the other person so I'll stop just before the punchline.
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My experience is that's rare - that you have a script that is... what they call 'film-ready.'
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My first-ever car, my parents bought me a red Fiat Uno. I was 17 and just so happy to have a car, so I was very fortunate that my parents were in a position to get me one - it was a secondhand car, but I was just so happy to have it.
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Bullfights have so much color. Not just the matador but also the bull, the arena, and the public. It's all very festive.
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I have always enjoyed the company of women and have formed deep and long-lasting friendships with many of them.
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There's no such thing as old age, there is only sorrow.
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I've approached every character I've ever played with a poem, first and foremost.
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In my world view, clearly the Internet is a huge force multiplier for Indian media because it has not crept up on us like something invisible; we've seen it all play out in the West.
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If 'Deadwood' had gone on another two years, I wouldn't have got as many movies made.
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My grandfather worked in a shoe factory - he was an Italian immigrant. My father was the first to go to college in the family.
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When I was younger - up until I was 19 years old and in college - I was surrounded with people in high school who felt like they knew what they wanted to do with their lives, and that was intimidating to me because I didn't.
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Why must everyone need a doctorate to teach? You can be a graduate from my institute in two months and for $11,000.
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I didn't do a movie until I was almost 30. I'm grateful for that because it gave me a chance to be an adult in the world and do work in the regional theater that very few people cared about. I loved it and I wanted to do that stuff.
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There are no opportune times for a penalty, and this is not one of those times.
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Who o'er the herd would wish to reign,Fantastic, fickle, fierce, and vain!Vain as the leaf upon the stream,And fickle as a changeful dream;Fantastic as a woman's mood,And fierce as Frenzy's fever'd blood.Thou many-headed monster thing,Oh who would wish to be thy king!
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All charming people, I fancy, are spoiled. It is the secret of their attraction.
