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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Once you love, you cannot take it back, cannot undo it. What you felt may have changed, shifted slightly, yet still remains love.
Whitney Otto
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As, in Sense, that which is really within us, is (as I have said before) only Motion, caused by the action of external objects, but in appearance; to the Sight, Light and Color; to the Ear, Sound; to the Nostril, Odor, &c.
Thomas Hobbes
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We were all hit with sticker shock: $87 billion is a huge number.
Zack Wamp
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Thoughts, like old vultures, prey upon their heart-strings
Isaac Watts
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No fate holds more splendour for an artist, than the one which greets his effort with such enthousiasm!
Carl Maria von Weber
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The function of the artist is to invent, not to chronicle.
Oscar Wilde
