Oscar Wilde Quotes
The function of the artist is to invent, not to chronicle.
Oscar Wilde
Quotes to Explore
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I've earned all these years on my face. I don't want to be a liar if in five or 10 years I do get some Botox, but needles in the face scare me, so I don't really know if I am ever going to do that.
Valerie Bertinelli
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You know, I've sold a lot of bad movies in my time.
Dan Aykroyd
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I don't have business with any politicians.
Carlos Slim
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That's what sets apart one actor from another, and that you can't teach. You can't give someone that. When you're working, putting a character together, or in a scene, that's where things will happen that you have to have the intuition to notice them, and to register them.
Gary Oldman
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I'm a self-taught musician aside from what I've been able to pick up from other players.
Walter Becker
China Crisis
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I probably have a higher opinion of my writing than the average person, at least when I'm in a good mood, but I don't really think of my plays as only being relevant to a particular month or year.
Wallace Shawn
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Our culture is intent on taking the lines out of people's faces - surgically, with costly creams, and with fear and trembling - when, in fact, the opposite should be the case. As artists know, if there is anything behind a face, that face improves with age.
Karen DeCrow
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Hopefully in the future, generational challenges will be measured by achievement, not gender.
Safra A. Catz
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We move sometimes. We send messages to each other. We talk on the phone. Tell me, what can we do?
Walid Jumblatt
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I think the thing that L.A. had on Sydney is an awesome music scene, especially for what I do.
Flume
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Each one of us requires the spur of insecurity to force us to do our best.
Harold W. Dodds
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She plucked from my lapel the invisible strand of lint (the universal act of woman to proclaim ownership).
O. Henry
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For every nation that lives peaceably, there will be many others to grow hard and push their arrogance to extremes; the gods attend to these things slowly. But they attend to those who put off God and turn to madness.
Sophocles
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I don't know if it's changing already with 'Joanne,' but my intention is to bring people together that don't know each other and that would maybe feel awkward, but somehow be brought together by the music. That's what I wanted to do. Because that is pure and authentic to my family history and what I stand for.
Lady Gaga
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Don't let anybody take your manhood.
Martin Luther King, Jr.
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It is obvious, that theory alone, can never make a good artist; and it is equally obvious, that practice unaided by theory, can never correct errors, but must establish them.
Emma Willard
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All parts of the body which have a function, if used in moderation and exercised in labors in which each is accustomed, become thereby healthy, well developed and age more slowly, but if unused they become liable to disease, defective in growth and age quickly.
Hippocrates
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The function of the artist is to invent, not to chronicle.
Oscar Wilde
