Oscar Wilde Quotes
Tell me, when you are alone with him Max Beerbohm Sphinx, does he take off his face and reveal his mask?
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Nothing is certain in life but death and taxes. And in Donald Trump's case, lies.
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How is the world ruled and led to war? Diplomats lie to journalists and believe these lies when they see them in print.
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I think that the training of architects allows you to see what will happen ten years ahead of time, or twenty. It's not guessing, it's not intuitive, it's based on research - and we may be wrong.
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I've been able to make some wonderful films, but sometimes you make films with great passion - great belief - and these films slightly don't work at the box office, and they become your favorite films.
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In orthodox film-making, you never shoot sequentially - but with improv, obviously every move you make has a knock-on effect; it is a cumulative process. I have improvised, on the non-scripted 'Timecode.' It can become entirely indulgent: actors smashing crockery and competing verbally.
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It's not about 'succeeding,' but sometimes on a film, you know you've captured something.
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When I'm writing the first draft, I'm writing in a very slovenly way: anything to get the outline of the story on paper.
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There's nothing I like more than picking fresh vegetables then putting them in the dinner you make that night.
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When we show up in a city, we ask, 'Where's the best restaurant? What's the best beer?' You start doing that, and you get exposed to a lot of great stuff.
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I regard myself as a beautiful musical instrument, and my role is to contribute that instrument to scripts worthy of it.
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I think some combined pressure could go a long way, could establish the fact that this legislation did pass and we mean business by it. We mean to have it enforced, we mean to have it become effective.
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The magic of landing my first role on Broadway went 'poof' in a matter of a few weeks.
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Love your neighbor as yourself; but don't take down the fence.
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I am always a beginner. I only try to include different parts of life; the pastoral, the tragic, et cetera.
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New York felt to me like what America should be - a representation of the world in this small pocket.
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Senator Wyden continues to be the Senate's truest champion of an open Internet.
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I love my life and my mistakes and my triumphs - all of it.
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I always had a struggle, which I still do, when you're playing a character and it's not necessarily your morals or your values. You're playing a character, but the way the media will sometimes ask you if these are your opinions, you know - they make you responsible for that, and I take issue with it because I don't believe in censorship.
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One of London's massive strengths is its sporting prowess, its great football teams.
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I would like to explain the meaning of compassion, which is often misunderstood. Genuine compassion is based not on our own projections and expectations, but rather on the rights of the other: irrespective of whether another person is a close friend
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Thank goodness for all the things you are not! Thank goodness you're not something someone forgot, and left all alone in some punkerish place like a rusty tin coat hanger hanging in space.
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Glance into the world just as though time were gone: and everything crooked will become straight to you.
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There's an honesty in our family - my kids and I are able to talk about things without me putting the fear of God into them.
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Tell me, when you are alone with him Max Beerbohm Sphinx, does he take off his face and reveal his mask?
