Oscar Wilde Quotes
The only link between Literature and the Drama left to us in England at the present moment is the bill of the play.
Quotes to Explore
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My real passions are horses and playing polo. I care a lot about that and staying fit and in shape.
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How I wish we lived in a time when laws were not necessary to safeguard us from discrimination.
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I'd love to work with David Lynch. I'm such a big fan. He's a genius.
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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!
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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.
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No intelligent man wears a moustache voluntarily - you can write that down.
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No science is immune to the infection of politics and the corruption of power.
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We are in a culture where it's so easy to just turn things off that you don't like. And I think that doesn't make you a well-rounded person or artist. You have to be able to take the good with the bad and have opinions on things!
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I have got prostate cancer, and I have to keep monitoring that. It's no problem, it's under control and I'm very cool about it, but other people are dying from it.
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I conceived the original 'Deus Ex' and was the project director on the game.
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It is common knowledge that smoking is considered one of the nation's leading causes of preventable death, but it's less widely known that cigarettes are also the leading cause of fatal fires.
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Whilst we deliberate how to begin a thing, it grows too late to begin it.
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I didn't know what a stockbroker was when I was eight, but I would just tell everybody that's what I was going to be.
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I don't really like politics, to be honest. But it's other people making decisions about my life and my country and my child's education... I wish we didn't have so much money in politics, but that's not the world we live in. If we don't play here, we forfeit. And I'm not willing to forfeit my rights.
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When they tried me out as a host on TV, I found that I just couldn't be that gregarious person. I was stranger than that.
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In no case can I permit myself to be a candidate of any party or yield myself to any party schemes.
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It is better to look ahead and prepare than to look back and regret.
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On many accounts, Cornwall may be regarded as one of the most interesting counties of England, whether we regard it for its coast scenery, its products, or its antiquities.
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I don't think you can decide how famous or not you become.
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Why is acquiescence to the numerous viewed as better servitude than bowing to might?
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Our strategy should be not only to confront empire, but to lay siege to it. To deprive it of oxygen. To shame it. To mock it. With our art, our music, our literature, our stubbornness, our joy, our brilliance, our sheer relentlessness – and our ability to tell our own stories. Stories that are different from the ones we’re being brainwashed to believe.
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When I left drama school, saying you were going to the RSC made you a laughing stock.
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My parents couldn't afford a full time drama school, but I basically just did every class I could do, and followed every drama interest I could. When I was 15 or 16 I did drama courses.
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The only link between Literature and the Drama left to us in England at the present moment is the bill of the play.
