Oscar Wilde Quotes
At twilight, nature is not without loveliness, though perhaps its chief use is to illustrate quotations from the poets.
Quotes to Explore
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I gave up on the delusion that these players enjoy soccer as much as I do, that they play for the love of the game.
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Don't manage - lead change before you have to.
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Religious people often prefer to be right rather than compassionate. Often, they don't want to give up their egotism. They want their religion to endorse their ego, their identity.
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Acting is doing. It's not speaking; it's behavior. It's something happening, even if you're only listening.
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It seems to me that unless you or someone very close to you has had a bad head injury, you really can't fathom it. You have no concept of what it is all about. It was so difficult for my whole family, not just me.
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I was a bit odd. I read books and wanted to draw and go to art school.
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You get to a point where you really can't manage more artists, because representing artists takes a lot of time.
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He used to have a tent show, a little tent show, and I thought I was going to get a job working one year on the tent show, but he closed it down and I never got to go out there, but anyway, he had a sax and played drums.
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Charity is a very personal equation, like we say charity begins at home. It starts with your immediate help in the house: the people who work for you.
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I knew I wanted to do something creative. I didn't think I'd have the luxury of doing something like that, because I didn't know anyone who had pursued anything they really adored, but I had dreams for singing or writing.
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I have never appreciated a quiet moment with a friend as much, a quiet moment with a book and I think part of that is my obsession with being older and time going faster and it's become increasingly sweeter for me.
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I had a good guitar, and I was a young, young kid.
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Having children is exciting. Life puts the past into perspective.
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What I have done in my nine year career was just a glimpse of what I can do.
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Just because someone has gone to an elite school and college does not make him smarter than the person who has grown up on street knowledge.
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I am very happy and honored to be part of the Sony ATV family.
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Most English writers are not interested in change but in the social novel. That demands a static backdrop. I'm intensely interested in change - probably as a matter of self-preservation. What the hell is going to happen next?
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I'm too obsessed that the people who say critical things about me are right, even though I'm getting to do something I love.
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If you want to read a perfect book there is only one way: write it.
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I think it is the weak and the young and the minorities that you need to look after to get a healthy creative environment - to get a lot of choices, a lot of different styles of music, a lot experimental stuff that everyone else feeds off.
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With a genre like film noir, everyone has these assumptions and expectations. And once all of those things are in place, that's when you can really start to twist it about and mess around with it.
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There is a big logical jump between acknowledging the destructive nature of hyperinflation and arguing that the lower the rate of inflation, the better.
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Despite its many critics, hydraulic fracturing will change the nature of energy production.
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At twilight, nature is not without loveliness, though perhaps its chief use is to illustrate quotations from the poets.
