W. Somerset Maugham Quotes

The artist can within limits make what he likes of his life... It is only the artist, and maybe the criminal, who can make his own.

W. Somerset Maugham

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• A person's life is of their own making, and I take full responsibility for mine.

  

  Rachel Roy
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• I guess, for better or for worse, I am an American composer, and I've had a wonderful life being exactly that.

  

  Samuel Barber
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  • Wonderful
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• I suppose if I'd got a brilliant first and done research I might still be a don today, but I hope not. People become dons because they are incapable of doing anything else in life.

  

  A. N. Wilson
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• Film has played such a big part in my life, in my impressions of the United States.

  

  Famke Janssen
  • Life
  • Film
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• 'Make You Miss Me' is an important song to me. Having it go No. 1 as the fifth single off of my first record is the cherry on top of a chapter in my life I'll never forget.

  

  Sam Hunt
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• I suffer from low self-esteem. I had horrible self-esteem growing up. You really have to save yourself because the critic within you will eat you up. It's not the outside world - it's your interior life, that critic within you, that you have to silence.

  

  Iman
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• After I directed, when I went back to being an actor, I was like, 'God, this is the life!' Because you only have to concentrate on one thing.

  

  Campbell Scott
  • Life
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• I've given just as much of my life to that, and I practiced it with the same zeal, as I have acting. And I think that many of my skill sets from being a housewife I used for producing. Because you don't stop until it's done.

  

  Frances McDormand
  • Life
  • Done
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• It was just this interesting, my first, the first time you hear your child in any way criticise you. It's the worst review of your life and it's really relieving to find out that they don't know what they're saying.

  

  Tea Leoni
  • Life
  • Time
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• Mother had committed me for life. This is where I felt betrayed the most.

  

  Kate Millett
  • Life
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• You matter to God, and every detail of your life matters to Him.

  

  Victoria Osteen
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• I don't want to be Mr. Romantic Leading Man. I don't want to be the Dance Dude. I don't want to be the Action Guy. If I had to do any one of those all my life, it'd drive me crazy.

  

  Patrick Swayze
  • Life
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  • Action

• When we're not filming or promoting then, you know, I live two different lives. So when I'm just in Taylor's life, and I'm just, you know, at home spending time with friends, it's great, it's a totally different life than this 'Twilight' world for sure. But it's amazing; our fans are the most passionate fans in the world!

  

  Taylor Lautner
  • Life
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• Life is 10 percent what you make it, and 90 percent how you take it.

  

  Irving Berlin
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• Every man's life is a fairy tale written by God's fingers.

  

  Hans Christian Andersen
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• Who can worry about a career? Have a life.

  

  Frances McDormand
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  • Career
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• Music is not a profession. Music is a way of life - one that requires much professionalism.

  

  Daniel Barenboim
  • Life
  • Music
  • Professionalism

• The question of what it is to live an 'authentic life', that's a complicated one.

  

  Eddie Redmayne
  • Life
  • Live
  • Question

• If I write a sad song, at the end it's gotta be like, 'Dude, things are looking up!'

  

  Andy Grammer
  • Up
  • Song
  • Sad

• In a sense, my grandmother was living in the Iron Age. There was no system of writing among the nomads. Metal artifacts were rare and precious. … The first time she saw a white person my grandmother was in her thirties: she thought this person's skin had burned off.

  

  Ayaan Hirsi Ali
  • Time
  • Writing
  • She

• I had been a premed student, and the way you got through premed was to work extremely hard and then harder.

  

  Ann Dowd
  • Work

• The slave frees himself when, of all the relations of private property, he abolishes only the relation of slavery and thereby becomes a proletarian; the proletarian can free himself only by abolishing private property in general.

  

  Friedrich Engels
  • Free
  • Slavery

• I knew his life deserved a chance/But everybody told me to be smart/Look at your career they said/'Lauren, baby use your head'/But instead I chose to use my heart.

  

  Lauryn Hill Fugees
  • Life
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  • Career

• The artist can within limits make what he likes of his life... It is only the artist, and maybe the criminal, who can make his own.

  

  W. Somerset Maugham
  • Life