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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I'm just a regular person who believes life is simple, and I like a simple life.
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Being on 'SNL' gives you a unique experience that almost no one else has. It's like Harvard for the comic actor.
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There is nothing worse than when actors come to a set - and it happens a lot with big stars - and they are too aware of where the camera is. They are the show. And that becomes apparent and it affects the production. I am like 'You should not know where the camera is - you should act, and I will do the rest.'
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I don't mind not looking conventionally - you know, attractive if that's what the part requires.
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We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars.
