Oscar Wilde Quotes
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I have been offered a lot for my work, but never everything.
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I would never write a memoir, because it would be too boring.
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If I were to continue to work in an established mode, it stands to reason the work would be limited by this - that it would never surpass the prior work in quality.
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I grew up playing on unprepared surfaces where your wicket depended on quickly adapting to the bounce. As a kid, I could never differentiate off-spin from leg-spin. All I looked to do was to try to hit the ball before it pitched.
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I wasn't bad at school, but I was never a bookworm.
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I've never had to explain 'Prometheus' to people, ever. Most people get it.
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I've never pretended that I'm not female and vulnerable. To me, it's just being honest.
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To be honest, I have never thought about getting into direction.
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I studied communications, only because I could get my own show on the campus radio station. I never thought of it as a career. Music was always a really passionate hobby - it was like collecting DVDs or stamps.
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Things are never perfect, so I never get too high about things, or get too down about things anymore.
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I never was a popular kid in class.
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I've been in the public eye now for about 15 or 16 years, and I'm very aware that fame is not a given. I have to maintain it. It's not just something that will always be there. But I've always been a worker. I've never expected be given anything.
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I never read about photography.
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You can never lose anything that really belongs to you, and you can't keep that which belongs to someone else.
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However and wherever we are, we must live as if we will never die.
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I never reflect or convey that which I have not experienced myself.
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Now and then, I had moments of greatness, but I never knew how to duplicate it consistently.
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I've never been around pets. I didn't have pets as a child.
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I was the conductor of the Underground Railroad for eight years, and I can say what most conductors can't say; I never ran my train off the track and I never lost a passenger.
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It's a little hard for me to stand behind the walls of the great mansion and play rock and roll star. I feel the need to give back.
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To deal with local pollution, China has put on the agenda the capping of coal, which has long been a sensitive issue.
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It's a good question, because to be believable is the only way that you could be successful.
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A time will come when a politician who has willfully made war and promoted international dissension will be as sure of the dock and much surer of the noose than a private homicide. It is not reasonable that those who gamble with men's lives should not stake their own.
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You can never be overdressed or overeducated.