"Yes, I am a thorough republican. No..." - Quote by Oscar Wilde
Yes, I am a thorough republican. No other form of government is so favorable to the growth of art. ...because of the importance it places on the individual, their liberty, self-expression, creativity, and personal responsibility.
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“An optimist will tell you the glass is half-full; the pessimist, half-empty; and the engineer will tell you the glass is twice the size it needs to be.”
“I am not at all cynical, I have merely got experience, which, however, is very much the same thing.”
“While one should always study the method of a great artist, one should never imitate his manner. The manner of an artist is essentially individual, the method of an artist is absolutely universal. The first personality, which no one should copy.”
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“There was a stool there, and some fella kept asking me if I wanted to sit down. When I saw the stool sitting there, it gave me the idea. I'll just put the stool out there and I'll talk to Mr Obama and ask him why he didn't keep all of the promises he made to everybody.”
“Politics is the art of acquiring, holding, and wielding power.”
“It doesn't matter if you are a Democrat or Republican, if you're young or old, what the racial thing is, nothing matters to me.”
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“All music is is what awakes from you when you are reminded by the instruments.”
“Nothing really affected me until Elvis.”
“Whatever you have lived, you can write & by hard work & a genuine apprenticeship, you can learn to write well; but what you have not lived you cannot write, you can only pretend to write it.”