W. Somerset Maugham Quotes
There are directors who desire to be artistic. It is pathetic to compare the seriousness of their aim with the absurdity of their attainment.W. Somerset Maugham
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I'm not a big fan of talking about dying. And then I make a movie where I kill everybody.
Abel Ferrara -
So I went to English school, secondary English school, so forget going to Mecca for my religious education.
Abdullah Ahmad Badawi -
Frank's audience doesn't care if a girl singer, a comic or an organ grinder with a monkey opens the show. They are there to see HIM.
Nancy Sinatra -
I don't really care about gossip. I care about building great businesses.
Tamara Mellon -
History is a race between education and catastrophe.
H. G. Wells -
What did we want out of Iraq? We wanted a country that was stable and secure, that elected its own government, that was not going to be a threat to its neighbors and also was capable of protecting and defending itself. That was our objective in Iraq.
Jack Keane
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I love Jen Meyer - she's a dear friend, and Tabitha Simmons as well.
Karen Elson -
Women can stand a beating except when it is with their own weapons.
Samuel Butler -
I'd love to live in Ireland but I'd like to live as me, not what someone thinks I am. People don't understand - I lived there before I was famous.
Van Morrison -
If you want to be happy, make others happy!
Dada Vaswani -
If in preaching the gospel you substitute your knowledge of the way of salvation for confidence in the power of the gospel, you hinder people from getting to reality.
Oswald Chambers -
Under the law, the government, whether it's state, local or federal, cannot give the Catholic Church or any religious institution money directly.
Ed Rendell
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Nothing in life is promised except death.
Kanye West -
The most merciful thing in the world... is the inability of the human mind to correlate all its contents.
H. P. Lovecraft -
I love sports - if I'm not acting, I'm probably doing sports.
Gabriel Basso -
Ghost! I miss him! Is that weird? I miss him even though I invented him. I feel a lot of tenderness toward him. I don't write a lot of stuff that is sad or that is tender and affectionate, so that has a very special place in my heart.
Mallory Ortberg -
Washington is an endless series of mock palaces clearly built for clerks.
Ada Louise Huxtable -
For me, personally, I watch pretty much everything on Netflix, and I watch all the episodes in a row, when I can.
Laura Prepon
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As for pressure, there's always the desire to give my best to every film. After all, so many people put in so much of hard work.
Vijay -
People have a huge desire to be listened to, for politicians to take the time to understand their problems.
Charles Kennedy -
I have an irrepressible desire to live till I can be assured that the world is a little better for my having lived in it.
Abraham Lincoln -
Yes the truth is that men's ambition and their desire to make money are among the most frequent causes of deliberate acts of injustice.
Aristotle -
I don't write for an audience. I write for myself. And if I imagine an audience at all, it's the characters, but I know that I would keep writing even if no one ever published me again, even if no one ever read me again.
Ursula Hegi -
There are directors who desire to be artistic. It is pathetic to compare the seriousness of their aim with the absurdity of their attainment.
W. Somerset Maugham