W. Somerset Maugham Quotes
A man marries to have a home, but also because he doesn't want to be bothered with sex and all that sort of thing.
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Unfortunately, the people of Louisiana are not racists.
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When I was about four, people used to walk up to my mom and say I should be in commercials.
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I feel sorry for the man who marries you... because everyone thinks you're sweet and you're not.
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I still remember my first Giacometti exhibition, and going back to the museum every day, whenever I could, to look again and again at these long, thin stick figures, so beautiful, so graceful. That, I think, was the moment I became really obsessed by art.
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Turquoise is my birthstone; I'm a Sagittarius.
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I could go out to five parties a day if I wanted to. I don't. I have attachments to my wife and kids - and about 20 pieces of art.
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People just don't sit down and watch shows live anymore. They DVR it. They stream it; they watch it on Netflix or iTunes.
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I was mostly an indoor girl at university. Where other students did drama or music or sport alongside their degrees, I wrote. I used to work on essays and classwork during the day and 'The Bone Season' in the evenings.
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Whenever I'm in Des Moines, I always make a trip to Manhattan Deli for a sandwich. I spent a lot of time there when I was going to college at Drake, so it's usually my one 'go-to' food stop when I'm in town.
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Nature also forges man, now a gold man, now a silver man, now a fig man, now a bean man.
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I would dodge, not lie, in the national interest.
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We've always made progress by understanding what the next great challenge is.
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I try to stay as naive as possible so I'm not as aware as much of the risks.
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I like Modest Mouse. I'm our biggest fan. And enemy. I won't waste people's time by putting out a Modest Mouse record just because. That's fair, right?
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Growing up, you always want to hang with your dad - go fishing or whatever. But my dad was always working, so we never really had time for that. I think I kind of learned to accept it.
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Son, give 'em a good show, and always travel first class.
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I love making films, and as long as I love the subject, I just have a crazy amount of passion and energy for the project.
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You don't go out and play Beethoven's 'Opus 111' without having rethought about it every time you play.
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High school dropouts are forfeiting their opportunity to pursue the American Dream.
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I don't get a chance to be funny with the thrillers. I like to be funny, and I think I am really funny. So with 'Middle School: The Worst Years of My Life', it was fun to let loose.
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I love coaching my grandkids, but I love working with my two sons. J.D. is the head coach, and I'm the assistant - you believe that? I missed so much of them growing up. I really messed up there. So I like working with J.D. and Coy. I'm trying not to do the same thing again. With J.D. and Coy, I missed so much.
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There is no one, after God, who loves us as much as this most loving Mother does.
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A man marries to have a home, but also because he doesn't want to be bothered with sex and all that sort of thing.
