Oscar Wilde Quotes
The spirit of an age may be best expressed in the abstract ideal arts, for the spirit itself is abstract and ideal.
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I want to be an animated character. I'm also doing more writing and directing.
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Anytime you have a tight race and you lose, it's not pleasant.
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I always carry lip balm and lipstick. Lipstick is a very important beauty product because I find that lips are the most beautiful feature of anyone's face.
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I'd always put on little shows at home, but when I was 11, I did a community event in Woodford, where anyone could go. You had three days of vocal training and performed your song at the end. I sang 'I Say a Little Prayer.' It's a tough song to sing but they gave me the confidence to go for it and belt it out.
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When we begin to desire a thing, to yearn for it with all our hearts, we begin to establish relationship with it in proportion to the strength and persistency of our longing and intelligent effort to realize it.
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I don't know what DVD commentaries are about. I'd like to strangle the person who came up with that concept.
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Washington and Congress are steeped in history and tradition, and that's been very male-oriented.
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I am very lucky I got fans, and I interact with them personally. I know that they have poured their love on me unconditionally, and all I can do is work hard and be kind to them.
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One of the lessons learned during the Vietnam War was that the depiction of wounded soldiers, of coffins stacked higher than their living guards, had a negative effect on the viewing public. The military in Iraq specifically banned the photographing of wounded soldiers and coffins, thus sanitizing this terrible and bloody conflict.
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I don't need drugs to make my life tragic.
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Our relationships with our computers are almost sexual, they're so close. They're just such a huge part of our lives.
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My parents live out in the middle of nowhere, in the middle of this peach orchard. It's actually Peach County, one of the largest peach-growing counties in Georgia. It's very rural, and there is nothing much going on, so I guess that's had a big influence on everything as far as just not having much to do.
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I think we all carry the seeds of our own destruction. You really have to be aware that just because something is good, it doesn't mean it's not going to trigger a self-destructive impulse.
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God, to redeem us at the deepest portion of our nature - the urge to love and be loved - must reveal His nature in an incredible and impossible way. He must reveal it at a cross.
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I've used a cellphone exactly twice. Things move on. The world changes. And I don't know it.
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Hip-hop isn't as complex as a woman is.
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Why is it that a large majority of Hindus do not inter-dine and do not inter-marry? Why is it that your cause is not popular? There can be only one answer to this question, and it is that inter-dining and inter-marriage are repugnant to the beliefs and dogmas which the Hindus regard as sacred.
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Whenever you can bring your chops in as a reporter to unearth a cool story, that's always a good thing.
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This whole beauty thing is something I've never comprehended.
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You know sometimes when you're in a really bad mood and you're not sure why? That's how I get sometimes.
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Well, surely, I am not in charge of South Africa.
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Very difficult to understand American audience, what they like, what they don't like. Some movie I like very much, it doesn't work. Some movie I don't like, it gets big box office. Very difficult.
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Maybe Simon Cowell for his effect on music. I call him Slimy Cowpat.
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The spirit of an age may be best expressed in the abstract ideal arts, for the spirit itself is abstract and ideal.
