Oscar Wilde Quotes
He is really not so ugly after all, provided, of course, that one shuts one's eyes, and does not look at him.
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I struggle if I have chaos around me, but at the same time, if I don't have it, I'm uncomfortable. It's a strange thing: If I don't have chaos, I create it.
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Being a celebrity, I don't even have to talk.
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If you stop being scared, that's when entropy sets in, and you may as well go home.
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Many of the best firms historically in venture capital have been multi-sector.
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Words aren't very good at describing complicated, strange visual things. You can try, and the reader will have some sort of image in their mind, but words aren't good at that.
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Many people think fairy tales and retellings of fairy tales are only for children, but I'm not the only writer to take an old tale and retell it for a sophisticated adult audience.
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I really appreciate family. I really can't imagine life without them!
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If you don't have a unique voice, then you're not really a writer.
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If you realize you aren't so wise today as you thought you were yesterday, you're wiser today.
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If a strong government finds that it can, with impunity, destroy a weak people, then the hour has struck for that weak people to appeal to the League of Nations to give its judgment in all freedom. God and history will remember your judgment.
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You can over-think things. If the script's good, everything you need is in there. I just try and feel it and do it honestly. I also don't learn things for auditions, because I feel like it's just a test of memorising rather than being real.
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Keeping in touch with the people that matter is important.
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I consider myself a student of many religions. The more I learn, the more questions I have. For me, the spiritual quest will be a life-long work in progress.
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The rest of us are still trying to find ways to live in the world with spirit-ual values. Myself included. We've learned certain skills, we've learned to prevail somewhat, but we've not made it over the mountain.
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Coming from a smaller place always made things feel more personal, which is really what it's all about.
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I have not watched Glenn Beck. I don't watch him.
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Ultimately, all human beings fulfill their patterns. We're set in a certain archetype, and we fulfill that destiny.
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I wanted to show those characters discovering it is possible to find common ground, as they make their way through a plotline that I hope is engrossing enough to keep the reader a willing participant.
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When things go wrong, the standard management strategy is to decide who takes the blame. This should be an underling, as far down the chain as possible, but preferably with some visibility so people know management means business.
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When I was little, my father was one of the biggest names in Hollywood. Suddenly - and how it happened to him was always a great mystery to me - he wasn't a star anymore; he was on the fringe. From the time I was 14, I was always conscious of a sense of worry, of terrific insecurity - agents, phony talk, the waits for the phone to ring.
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Until we become clear about our own worth and value, we will forever be searching for it in the eyes of others.
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He is really not so ugly after all, provided, of course, that one shuts one's eyes, and does not look at him.
