Oscar Wilde Quotes
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Music is art, and once you become an artist, you need to learn how to accept criticism.
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Here he tells us that the new birth is first of all 'not of blood'. You don't get it through the blood stream, through heredity. Your parents can give you much, but they cannot give you this.
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I was very lucky when I started doing comedy because I hadn't seen much stand-up. I just got up on stage and did it without thinking.
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Memory is a complicated thing, a relative to truth, but not its twin.
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A woman going out with a younger man feels like the last taboo.
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The life of an actor is never one to get comfortable.
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You know, I've sold a lot of bad movies in my time.
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I don't have business with any politicians.
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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.
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I'm a self-taught musician aside from what I've been able to pick up from other players.
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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.
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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.
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Hopefully in the future, generational challenges will be measured by achievement, not gender.
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We move sometimes. We send messages to each other. We talk on the phone. Tell me, what can we do?
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I think the thing that L.A. had on Sydney is an awesome music scene, especially for what I do.
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Each one of us requires the spur of insecurity to force us to do our best.
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She plucked from my lapel the invisible strand of lint (the universal act of woman to proclaim ownership).
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I got a divorce, and I felt like I finally started my career. I started making movies and projects that I just really believed in.
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The NRA appears to have evolved into the lobby for gun and ammunition manufacturers rather than gun owners.
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The crying sounded even louder out of doors. It was as if all the pain in the world had found a voice
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The day is committed to error and floundering; success and achievement are matters of long range.
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Every child is an artist. The problem is how to remain an artist once we grow up.
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It is the business of the artist to uncover the strangeness of truth.
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The function of the artist is to invent, not to chronicle.
