Oscar Wilde Quotes
She is very clever, too clever for a woman. She lacks the indefinable charm of weakness.
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We need fundamental change. In the past, national development led to people's happiness but now the link between national growth and improvement in people's lives has been severed.
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Life consists in what a man is thinking of all day.
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I am happy with all the films I've done. I have not become the victim of an image. I have managed to do different roles, and I am proud of that.
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It's more important to fly midpoint in deals and work together than to try to haggle for the last dollar.
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Usually, if you read a script by somebody else and there's a dense page of stage directions, people just skip through it or speed read it.
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Live TV has an amazing pace to it. You've got to be able to think quick, make changes last minute, and be funny and fast.
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At some point, you grow out of being attracted to that flame that burns you over and over and over again.
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Fiction basically is a form of gossip where you want to enter other people's lives, the lives of people you don't know, and you want to know what's going to happen to them.
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I think every good Christian ought to kick Falwell right in the ass.
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I'm always surprised when an actor goes so deeply into the truth that they shake you to your core.
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Art is subjective. I'm not looking for people's praise.
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He fashioned hell for the inquisitive.
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Family entertainment is really very necessary in our culture. Look how profitable they are. It's almost not discretionary. You need to take your family to the movies.
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I was 6, and I was in the opera 'Carmen.' My dad sang opera and got me into the children's chorus. I was super fat at the time and didn't make eye contact with anyone. I knew I loved acting ever since.
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I made a lot of money. I earned a lot of money with CNN and satellite and cable television. And you can't really spend large sums of money, intelligently, on buying things. So I thought the best thing I could do was put some of that money back to work - making an investment in the future of humanity.
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The values by which we are to survive are not rules for just and unjust conduct, but are those deeper illuminations in whose light justice and injustice, good and evil, means and ends are seen in fearful sharpness of outline.
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I do not paint a portrait to look like the subject, rather does the person grow to look like his portrait.
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Our intent of how we're going to play doesn't change.
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For avarice begins where poverty ends.
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A generation before, it had been sagebrush and coyotes; a generation later, it was a burgeoning movie town. But for that brief idyllic time in 1910, Hollywood looked like the perfect place for a successful writer to settle down, build his dream house, and maybe do some gardening.
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You have to build your credentials as a candidate, not just as a woman. You also have to be willing to exercise power. We've been educated to be mothers, peacemakers, but we must learn that we can't please everybody.
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A woman who cannot make her mistakes charming, is only a female.
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If you want your wife to listen to you, then talk to another woman; she will be all ears.
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She is very clever, too clever for a woman. She lacks the indefinable charm of weakness.
