Oscar Wilde Quotes
Philanthropic people lose all sense of humanity. It is their distinguishing characteristic.
Quotes to Explore
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We were both in love with him. I fell out of love with him, but he didn't.
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For me, the greatest good fortune I have being raised by actors is I came in knowing that a career is the ebb and flow.
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We left my birthplace, Brooklyn, New York, in 1939 when I was 13. I enjoyed the ethnic variety and the interesting students in my public school, P.S. 134. The kids in my neighborhood were only competitive in games, although unfriendly gangs tended to define the limits of our neighborhood.
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When I was in the running for the role of Elphaba, I knew it was important to research and study as much background information as I could, so I got my head stuck into 'Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West' by Gregory Maguire, and I believe I lost many days, weeks, and months reading it - I was captivated!
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Anytime you have a tight race and you lose, it's not pleasant.
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I greatly enjoy reading the biographies of scientists, and when doing so I always hope to learn the secrets of their success. Alas, those secrets generally remain elusive.
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Just like I'm still angry with Simpson for getting by with two murders.
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The differences between revolution in art and revolution in politics are enormous. Revolution in art lies not in the will to destroy but in the revelation of what has already been destroyed. Art kills only the dead.
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The mind is but too naturally prone to pleasure, but too easily yielded to dissipation.
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I never got into politics for it to be a career.
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If anything, I was a prodigious eater of everything that was put in front of me. That was probably the only thing my parents wouldn't complain about.
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I want to keep a thread between the studio and the stage, and I want to flow more easily from one to the other.
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You need to make a trip to Des Moines in August, because the Iowa State Fair really is a sight to see. The Iowa Fairgrounds are usually packed for those 11 days, and you get a real sense of what a classic Midwest fair is all about.
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All novels attempt to cut neural routes through the brain, to convince us that down this road the true future of the novel lies.
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I saw the pilot for 'Girls' about six months before it aired.
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Acting can be a narrow and isolated experience, because you only examine your particular part.
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I can't deal with someone flashy. That's so not me.
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What is exciting is not for one person to be stronger than the other... but for two people to have met their match and yet they are equally as stubborn, as obstinate, as passionate, as crazy as the other.
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Without that assured American largesse Israel would have been obliged to come to an accommodation with her neighbours.
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There's a fine line in being too specific so you can't be too flexible, and being too vague in being specific and people not thinking it's meaningful.
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You win some, lose some, and wreck some.
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I prefer home school because you learn more by yourself than when you're around other people because you get distracted.
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But one of the things I learned from improvising is that all of life is an improvisation, whether you like it or not. Some of the greatest scientific discoveries of the 20th century came out of people dropping things.
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Philanthropic people lose all sense of humanity. It is their distinguishing characteristic.
