Oscar Wilde Quotes
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I'm such a stereotypical female learner in that I love social studies and love literature, and I always struggled with math and science.
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Funny is an attitude.
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The beautiful spring came; and when Nature resumes her loveliness, the human soul is apt to revive also.
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For me, the greatest good fortune I have being raised by actors is I came in knowing that a career is the ebb and flow.
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When I was a child I asked my mother what homosexuality was about and she said - and this was 100 years ago in Germany and she was very open-minded - 'It's like hair color. It's nothing. Some people are blond and some people have dark hair. It's not a subject.' This was a very healthy attitude.
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Editing and post-production is so important with comedy.
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I want to do good stories, and I want to work with really interesting people. And if it's Noah Hawley forever, that's also amazing.
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The functions of the family in a highly differentiated society are not to be interpreted as functions directly on behalf of the society, but on behalf of personality.
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My characters are driven by a passionate desire for justice. They are rebellious and incorruptible.
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I saw 'Hamilton' when it was at the Public, and I just wept profusely in my seat because this is a form I love deeply, and to watch it be reinvented in such a genius, gifted way and executed by such a brilliant company of human beings, I was overwhelmed with not just appreciation for the piece of work itself but for the possibility.
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Ten people who speak make more noise than ten thousand who are silent.
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The true Tarot is symbolism; it speaks no other language and offers no other signs.
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That is to say, epic poetry has been invented many times and independently; but, as the needs which prompted the invention have been broadly similar, so the invention itself has been.
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I've sort of heard that 'it' girl thing, but not really. Hearing it from a few people doesn't solidify it in my mind and I wouldn't know how to solidify that title. It's so elusive and what does it mean, I don't know?
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We always had money problems. Sometimes I would lie awake at night wondering how to pay the rent.
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I am in the infantry for 17 weeks and after that I don't know where I am going.
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At some point in your life, if you're lucky, you get to design the way in which things evolve.
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The way you write a screenplay is that you close your eyes and run the movie in your head and then you write it down.
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You can watch someone on – stage cry and cry – but in the audience you feel nothing. It's easy to become indulgent. For me, what's important is the story first.
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I would love to get great performances from actors as a director, because that's what I'm always looking for, a director that's going to help me go places I've never been before.
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There definitely isn't a structure anymore to how I get ideas. A lot of times I'll just write down a phrase, or I'll have an idea that's attached to just a few chords. Other times, it's work.
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When he shall die, Take him and cut him out in little stars, And he will make the face of heaven so fine That all the world will be in love with night And pay no worship to the garish sun.
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It's been a while since I've been in the hot seat. Looking forward to it...
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We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars.
