Oscar Wilde Quotes
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To grow up knowing you're loved is astounding. It's a huge gift to a child.
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Acting was something I always wanted to try. I just didn't know how, or I didn't know when the door was gonna be open for me to try it. But it finally opened up for me when I did 'Turn It Up', and ever since then I've been in love with doing films.
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Some days the competition would beat me and I'd go home thinking awful thoughts, want to hide under the bed, depressed. But of course, in the news business, when you're working a daily news broadcast, you get your victories and defeats every day.
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They're always so serious, the orchestras, you know? It's always a fun contrast of that song and the genre of music. And me.
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I don't read other science fiction. I don't read any at all.
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I wish I'd gone to music school or just started playing in bands sooner.
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Unfortunately, what many people forget is that judges are just lawyers in robes.
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Scientists tend to be skeptical, but the weakness of the community of science is that it tends to move into preformed establishment modes that say this is the only way of doing science, the only valid view.
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We are all here on earth to help others; what on earth the others are here for I don't know.
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You are not alone with a guy until you are a proper age. You don't go to certain levels with men until you are married or you have a certain relationship.
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One of the rules of the road is that if you want to create the sense of silence, it frequently has more pungency if you include the tiniest of sounds. By manipulating what you hear and how you hear it and what other things you don't hear, you can not only help tell the story, you can help the audience get into the mind of the character.
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We set up a situation and let you interact with it and see the consequences of your choice. That's what gaming does.
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My films have been progressing towards a certain kind of minimalism, even though it was never intended. Elements which can be eliminated have been eliminated.
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When you live in a condo complex with people next door, I don't know how you can be dead for four months without anybody noticing you not coming and going.
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OK, I'm happy. I'm happy. All right? I'm happy.
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I always wrote about things that were important to me. I think our past success showed that it was also important for a lot of others.
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Every time a pundit or elected official is on any TV news program, it should be a polite formality to mention that GE has made such and such billions off the war in Iraq by selling arms or that Murdoch is a right-wing activist with a clear stake in who wins and who taxes his profits the least.
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Most geniuses are weird.
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I had gone full-on folkie; I'd had it with bands.
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My greatest fear about a world in which racial reassignment surgery becomes common is that it then becomes an expression of all kinds of class privilege. You have a truly dystopian society divided between the people who can afford to be racially altered and perfected and the ones who can't.
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Millennials easily connect the dots between good education and good opportunities, and they also understand that it isn't just hard work that determines how well a child will be educated - it also depends on where they live and the resources their parents commit to their education.
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If I'm going through life broke, I might as well live in the company of cheerful idiots like actors.
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Time to live, time to lie, time to laugh, and time to die. Take it easy baby. Take it as it comes.
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The ages live in history through their anachronisms.
