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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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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We need a new British business bank with a clean balance sheet and an ability to expand lending rapidly to the manufacturers, exporters and high-growth companies that power our economy. Today I can announce we will have one.
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I'm a sort of nuts-and-bolts guy. I'm into turning wrenches and swinging a hammer and wrenching on cars.
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During my childhood, Washington was a segregated city, and I lived in the midst of a poor black neighborhood. Life on the streets was often perilous. Indoor reading was my refuge, and twice a week, I made the hazardous bicycle trek to the central library at Seventh and K streets to stock up on supplies.
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I like storms. I would say I actively like stormy weather. I would not be afraid of them. I think that if I had not pursued journalism, I think storm-chasing would've been a really fun career.
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We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars.
