Oscar Wilde Quotes
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I'm very self-critical.
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I've always loved to dress up a bit and show off.
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So, you know, parenting is a very intimate and amazing experience and one of the best experiences of my life.
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You can't judge your characters or otherwise; it's not about you, it's about them.
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Parodies of commercials are by no means new and have been popular going back to black-and-white TV shows of the '50s.
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Being evil is easy.
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I think everyone remembers how certain Russian bureaucrats used to work against the Ukrainian opposition; I think it is hard to drop old habits.
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I first started writing fiction in college because I was attracted to beautiful sentences. I loved to read them. I wanted to write them.
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I came up with a story and I wrote it.
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I've really had two heroes in my life. My father and Ronald Reagan.
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I refuse to confide and don't like it when people write about art.
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I was raised doing martial arts.
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The vegetable life does not content itself with casting from the flower or the tree a single seed, but it fills the air and earth with a prodigality of seeds, that, if thousands perish, thousands may plant themselves, that hundreds may come up, that tens may live to maturity; that, at least one may replace the parent.
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Everyone should play their role in tearing down the wall of hatred.
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In 1853, American warships bullied Japan out of centuries of virtual isolation and into the modern world. The threat of force compelled Japan, like India and China before it, to accept trade agreements that were economically ruinous and eroded national sovereignty.
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I don't like a lot of rehearsing.
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You know for me when I promise something I want to deliver. If you don't, you have to disappear.
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I've never been one for crushing on famous people.
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The emphasis on the birth of Christ tends to polarize our pluralistic society and create legal and ethnic belligerence.
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I really believe in not compromising your art. I feel like I've never compromised my art.
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I've played American, Italian, Greek, French. I've been really lucky that way.
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When I start a picture, I always have a script, but I change it every day. I put in what occurs to me that day out of my imagination. You start on a voyage; you know where you will end up but not what will occur along the way. You want to be surprised.
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Only the great masters of style ever succeed in being obscure.
