Oscar Wilde Quotes
Imagination is a quality given a man to compensate him for what he is not, and a sense of humor was provided to console him for what he is.
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I'll hear people say every so often that having HIV must not be so bad - 'Just look at Magic and how well he's doing.'
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I view myself primarily as a trial lawyer who happens to be writing, as opposed to a writer who happens to be a trial lawyer, so the audience is like a jury to me.
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It's no secret that I've been reluctant to use my name for things.
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Have you read 'The Grapes of Wrath?' That was my family. My dad was a sharecropper in western Oklahoma. When the dust storms came and everything got wiped out, they came to California. The guys with the mattresses on the tops of their cars in the movie? That was the way it was.
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I made a very slatternly mother, notably unkeen on housework, unaware that homes need to be cleaned now and then, and too often to be found with a cigarette in one hand and a drink in the other.
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It took me years of attempts and failed drafts before I finally wrote the elegies I needed to write.
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I think we are living in paradise with regards to the ways we can amuse ourselves, communicate. We have such a richness of possibilities.
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I'm sure my father had more to do with my career than I would like to give him credit for. I would love to think it was all me!
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A house must be built on solid foundations if it is to last. The same principle applies to man, otherwise he too will sink back into the soft ground and becomes swallowed up by the world of illusion.
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I really want to try soccer after I retire because I've watched football over the years and I think I could be a good contender.
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We've got a very difficult situation created by this embrace of the so-called Arab Spring. And that's not getting better. It's getting worse. The carnage for the people of Syria is horrific, and it's quite frankly too little, too late to reverse a lot of that.
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I can only hope that my future movies will do well.
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I guess there are all these women with a big secret - they're hiding men they are ashamed of. They come up to me and say: 'I've been dating this guy for six months in secret but none of my friends know. I can't give him up even though he's embarrassing.'
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I started out doing musicals.
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It's an unfortunate reality of life that toxins are constantly building up in our bodies.
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It is not length of life, but depth of life.
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I don't do anything by myself. I have a whole crew to get me ready every day.
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The importance of the arts to the societies in which they thrive is well documented.
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People are surprised at how down-to-earth I am. I like to stay home on Friday nights and listen to 'The Art of Happiness' by the Dalai Lama.
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I started working a Saturday job at this French cafe from when I was about 14. I lived two minutes away from the cafe and went there every morning. One day, the manager asked if I wanted to work there. I'd never worked before, so thought I'd give it a go.
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Ideally citizens are to think of themselves as if they were legislators and ask themselves what statutes, supported by what reasons satisfying the criterion of reciprocity, they would think is most reasonable to enact.
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That's what kept us going - a sense of absurdity, rather than humor.
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One shining quality lends a lustre to another, or hides some glaring defect.
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Imagination is a quality given a man to compensate him for what he is not, and a sense of humor was provided to console him for what he is.
