Oscar Wilde Quotes
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I want to ski down Mount Cho Oyu in the Himalayas when I am 85, descending from a height of 8,201 meters.
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I would like to see America some day.
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Knitting not only relaxes me, it also brings a feeling of being at home.
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I'm crazy about jewelry; swimwear and jewelry.
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Israel can't be the only country in the Western world not to have freedom of religion.
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The only difference between the Republican and Democratic parties is the velocities with which their knees hit the floor when corporations knock on their door. That's the only difference.
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I am not a prisoner of conscious, but people try to make me one sometimes. It is both a gift and a curse. It's a high honour but can create limitations - I have to be fluid.
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Jane Austen's characters for women are always very strong, opinionated and elegantly written, so they're always great for an actress to have a chance to do.
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As many of you know I travel a good bit and do not get to see my friends and family as much as I would like.
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When we talk about the minimum wage, we have to ask ourselves what it is that we owe both our workers and employers. I think clearly we owe them fairness.
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Today's films are so technological that an actor becomes starved for roles that deal with human relationships.
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I am not going to talk about my personal life anymore. You have to learn that lesson sometime.
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Over the years, I have realized that there's more to a film's fate than just good acting and a solid script. It needs to be marketed well. It's the package that sells - the songs, action, actors, etc.
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My father played guitar, so I always wanted to play for that reason. But I think the biggest reason was just the '90s in general - growing up listening to the Smashing Pumpkins, Green Day and bands like that, and going to concerts and thinking it was the coolest thing in the world.
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A lot of things trigger my inspiration. It can be the most banal things.
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Be as polite to the custodian as you are to the chairman of the board.
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In the calculus of western interests, there is no suffering, whatever its scale, which cannot be justified. Chechens, Palestinians, Iraqis, Afghans, Pakistanis are of little importance.
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One of the problems with putting Huck Finn into a movie or on the stage is, you always make the white people stupid and racist. The point is, they don't know they're racist.
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I am still working with music, but Gordon and I no longer perform together.
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Two great European narcotics, alcohol and Christianity.
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There are so many opportunities in life, that the loss of two or three capabilities is not necessarily debilitating. A handicap can give you the opportunity to focus more on art, writing, or music.
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The sciences are of a sociable disposition, and flourish best in the neighborhood of each other; nor is there any branch of learning but may be helped and improved by assistance drawn from other arts.
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Art is rarely intelligible to the criminal classes.
