Oscar Wilde Quotes
By persistently remaining single, a man converts himself into a permanent public temptation. Men should be more careful.
Quotes to Explore
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I've always had better luck learning things on my own. And I really love the challenge of doing it yourself and kind of being alone against the system.
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We are the only ones who really can care about the preservation Foreigners who come to excavate, maybe some of them care about preservation, but the majority care about discoveries.
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The law of sacrifice is uniform throughout the world. To be effective it demands the sacrifice of the bravest and the most spotless.
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It's one thing to get a letter from your kid at camp telling you he wants to come home. It's another to get a letter from a grown child saying they're coming back to live with you!
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When we read fiction, we want to get outside of ourselves and are able to see from a perspective we haven't seen through before. That can be very powerful.
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My Southern heritage is a big part of who I am. I grew up around people who seemed like characters but are actual, real people. My grandmother made sure I had manners and all that stuff.
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My characters are driven by a passionate desire for justice. They are rebellious and incorruptible.
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In a modern loft, you can't just fill a space with furniture. Each piece has to be perfect.
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There's always the ongoing actor frustration of finding the great role to do next. I don't go to work a lot. I wait as long as I can until the money runs out or a great part comes along.
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I'm from Houston. I think I was thirty-seven before I ever set foot in Dallas, and that was just in the airport. So I've never really been there. Dad grew up in Port Arthur, Texas and all I can ever get out of him is, 'I wanted my first son to be named Dallas.'
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I do feel like there's a level of ridiculousness going on in electronic music... It's getting borderline absurd out there.
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Comic books aren't nerdy. You'd have to be an idiot to think computers are nerdy.
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I've learned about ice water in the morning - when you wake up tired, or you're jet lagged and you've been flying and your skin is dry, or you have puffy eyes - the ice water really helps cool the face down and helps circulation.
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An interview has become such a confrontational thing. It makes you very defensive.
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You have to expect the raps when you have achieved popularity as a writer.
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You never lose by loving. You always lose by holding back.
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I'm not really a pianist.
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All you needed back then was a blow dryer and a dream.
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When I got started in New York, it wasn't like it is now. If you were different from Miles and Dizzy, it was very difficult to make gigs and make money with your own style.
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What a deep faith in the rationality of the structure of the world and what a longing to understand even a small glimpse of the reason revealed in the world there must have been in Kepler and Newton to enable them to unravel the mechanism of the heavens in long years of lonely work!
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A poem is good if it contains a new analogy and startles the reader out of the habit of treating words as counters.
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All this takes many clumsy and inexact word-descriptions to describe, but if we read paintings like we read books, it would not be such a hidden language for painting can effortlessly produce such elegant solutions.
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Give generously - and receive graciously.
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By persistently remaining single, a man converts himself into a permanent public temptation. Men should be more careful.
