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Oscar Wilde Quotes

Every portrait that is painted with feeling is a portrait of the artist, not of the sitter.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: dramatist
Nationality: irish
Birth: October 16, 1854 - November 30, 1900

Topics

Portrait Artist Feeling Every Sitter

I was a little chubby kid that no girls ever talked to. I had little chance of becoming an internationally known rock star. Music was my escape and my belief system.

Music Chance Rock Star Escape Rock

I'm more influenced by characters than standups. I love strong, comic women because it's so hard, and I have so much respect for anyone who can do it. I'm a big fan of Tina Fey and Amy Poehler and people like that.

Love Women Respect People Strong

People think, 'She's a model. She must have such an attitude. She must be so stuck up.' But I'm normal. I cry. I'm not rich. I drive a 1987 Chevrolet Celebrity.

Attitude People Drive Rich Think Up

Trying to convince Warner Bros. to make a $30 million 'Veronica Mars' movie just wasn't going to happen, for understandable reasons.

Trying Mars Happen Convince Going

After my father died when I was seven and my mother entered into an abusive relationship, I shuffled between houses - staying with friends, families from church, and relying on the kindness of teachers and people throughout my community to help me grow up essentially without parents.

Ronnie Musgrove

Kindness Father Mother Relationship

When all those city folks try to fix up my talking, all they do is mess me up.

City Me Talking Try Fix Mess

Discretion is the polite word for hypocrisy.

Christine Keeler

Hypocrisy Discretion Word Polite

Donald Trump is the best debater on the debate stage.

Corey Lewandowski

Best Debate Donald Trump Stage Trump

I could compare my music to white light which contains all colours. Only a prism can divide the colours and make them appear; this prism could be the spirit of the listener.

Music Light White Spirit Prism Only

Having yet another vote on refinery legislation that uses high oil prices as an excuse to weaken environmental protections and to give more legislative gifts to the oil industry is misguided in the extreme.

Sherwood Boehlert

Environmental Vote Oil More High

Miami, in many ways, is a quintessentially American city. The juxtaposition of showy wealth with dire pennilessness, the tussle of glitz and decay doesn't come any more marked than here.

City American Miami Wealth More

Robert Altman was a very jovial guy and obviously a famed improviser and perhaps less effective in post-production, which is like the crystallising process. So I found myself at sea often with him because we'd have conversations about what music is, and in the end, I don't know how interested he was?

Music Sea Myself Process End Know

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