Oscar Wilde Quotes
Art is rarely intelligible to the criminal classes.
Oscar Wilde
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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.
Randeep Hooda
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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.
Jack Antonoff
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A lot of things trigger my inspiration. It can be the most banal things.
Manolo Blahnik
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Be as polite to the custodian as you are to the chairman of the board.
H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
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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.
Tariq Ali
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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.
Hal Holbrook
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That toil of growing up; The ignominy of boyhood; the distress Of boyhood changing into man; The unfinished man and his pain.
William Butler Yeats
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I put Compton on the map.
Eric Lynn Wright
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It is trifling to believe in what you do or in what others do. You should avoid simulacra and even 'realities'; you should take up a position external to everything and everyone, drive off or grind down your appetites, live, according to a Hindu adage, with as few desires as a 'solitary elephant.
Emil Cioran
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If you're truly psychedelic the difference between living and dying is quite immaterial. No pun intended.
Terence McKenna
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...we will arrange for 'religion' to become a small subdepartment of ordinary life; it will be quite safe - harmless, in fact - with church life carefully separated off from everything else in the world, whether politics, art, sex, economics, or whatever.
N. T. Wright
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Art is rarely intelligible to the criminal classes.
Oscar Wilde
