Oscar Wilde Quotes
The great poet is always a seer, seeing less with the eyes of the body than he does with the eyes of the mind.
Quotes to Explore
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I'm very self-critical.
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I've leased the apartment; my partner is going to come out here. But we're keeping our house in Chicago because real estate is a really good investment and also because it is just crammed with full of stuff!
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Words aren't very good at describing complicated, strange visual things. You can try, and the reader will have some sort of image in their mind, but words aren't good at that.
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It was a pleasure to meet President Obama and Michelle. I'm not a political person, but I admire what he has done.
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Choreography and creativity - it's my matrix; let's see where we can move.
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I had Hallowe'en parties every year, as it was my birthday five days before. My parents would actually put prosthetic noses on, and my dad would wear a top-hat and tails, put on a fake curly moustache, and hold a pipe.
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When you give a lot of confidence in people and you don't get it back, you are a bit disappointed, but it's life.
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The sovereignty of scriptures of all religions must come to an end if we want to have a united integrated modern India.
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Before every show, we get into a circle, hold hands, and someone makes a speech. Most bands are too cool for that.
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Many people think fairy tales and retellings of fairy tales are only for children, but I'm not the only writer to take an old tale and retell it for a sophisticated adult audience.
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If you realize you aren't so wise today as you thought you were yesterday, you're wiser today.
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Bolivar's legacy has always been a part of the Venezuelan/Latin American imagery, especially in the countries that he liberated or he helped to liberate. He's been a very prominent figure.
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Fracking is an incredible risk to the human race, I don't know why they even thought of doing it.
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When you're trying to paint a portrait of a very specific world, you're trying to show what makes the world different. So, sometimes it means exaggerating certain kind of aspects, but I don't think it's that important or it's that much of an issue as long as you get an emotional truth across.
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My mother's parents died when I was quite young, so I would like to be able to go back and know those people as an adult.
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Children aren't happy with nothing to ignore, and that's what parents were created for.
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Endorphins are a very powerful thing.
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Success isn't about the end result, it's about what you learn along the way.
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Aristotle says that metaphor causes the mind to experience itself in the act of making a mistake.
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He reached for her and kissed her. It was all at once passionate, as if there was too much in him to contain. He was immediately swept up in it. It took no effort, the difference between swimming on your own and being washed away in a flood.
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More than anything, there are more images in evil. Evil is based far more on the visual, whereas good has no good images at all.
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Maggie Gyllenhaal, Chelsea Handler, Tilda Swinton, and Sofia Coppola are other clients. They're all risk takers but never look like they're in costume.
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For a split second, Harry thought how absurd it was for Tonks to expect the dummy to hear her talking that quietly through a sheet of glass, when there were buses rumbling along behind her and all the racket of street full of shoppers. Then he reminded himself that dummies could not hear anyway.
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The great poet is always a seer, seeing less with the eyes of the body than he does with the eyes of the mind.
