Oscar Wilde Quotes
When one pays a visit it is for the purpose of wasting other people's time, not one's own.
Oscar Wilde
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After high school, I went to the University of Wisconsin Stevens Point for a year, and I studied musical theatre. By that point, I was like, 'This is what I want to do.'
Laura Osnes
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I love Tig Notaro; I just think she's so awesome.
Kate Flannery
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I grew up being a dancer, so I was always doing some sort of dance number, like the Tornado in 'The Wiz.'
Yvonne Strahovski
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I'm from Port Arthur, Texas! Little guy! Little character guy from one of the saddest oil-refinery towns in America. And here I was driving over to Beverly Hills, to 20th Century Fox, to be on 'M*A*S*H!'
G. W. Bailey
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I feel there's enough seriousness in the world without seeing it in the theatre.
Pat Nixon
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I lead a normal life and I don't assume there is anything I can impart to people. The only reason to write a book would be to make money, and I don't want to do that. To write a book would be going against how I've lived.
Patrick Duffy
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The ideas and practices of Franz Anton Mesmer, an 18th-century Australian healer, had spread to the United States and, by the 1840s, held the country in thrall. Mesmer proposed that everything in the universe, including the human body, was governed by a 'magnetic fluid' that could become imbalanced, causing illness.
Karen Abbott
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I'm a full-time mom right now and a part-time actress.
Valerie Bertinelli
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If I am pushed I will push back, that is the way I am. I am very British. We don't like to be pushed around. When the chips are down we might have to step into grey areas.
Damon Hill
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One of these days, I'd like to put together a revue of all my music, which would probably turn into a marathon. There's a couple of hit songs from almost every phase of my career. At the same time, visually, if you don't handle it properly, it could be a cacophony of craziness, because there's just so many different kinds of music.
Natalie Cole
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People think I am funny all the time. But I am not. I am serious, too. Also, I enjoy serious, dramatic films.
Kapil Sharma
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I never liked my father. He really was a dullard and misanthrope. My mother and he were married for 22, years and it was an ill match. She encouraged me to be a writer. She opened her home to black friends, and this was the 1950s. She didn't care later when I write about her.
Edmund White
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My parents got me a $25 Kent steel-string acoustic guitar when I was around 12. The following Christmas, my parents bought me a Conora electric guitar. It looked almost like a Gretsch. It cost $59, and my mom still has it.
Alex Lifeson
Rush
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The best song lyrics seem to me so artful, so brilliant, so warm and humorous, with both passion and wit, that my admiration is matched only by my envy.
David Lehman
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I voted to repeal the individual mandate in Obamacare... I think people appreciate the fact that they know where you stand.
David Jolly
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Don't you find it rather heavy, to have everything really in front of you – all the people who are going to matter, whom you haven't met yet, all the choices you are going to have to make, everything you might achieve, and all the possible failures – unreal now? The future flaps round my head like a cloud of midges.
A. S. Byatt
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Nature does not have to insist.
Lao Tzu
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When one pays a visit it is for the purpose of wasting other people's time, not one's own.
Oscar Wilde
