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.
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A person's life is of their own making, and I take full responsibility for mine.
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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.
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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.
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Film has played such a big part in my life, in my impressions of the United States.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Mother had committed me for life. This is where I felt betrayed the most.
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You matter to God, and every detail of your life matters to Him.
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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.
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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!
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Life is 10 percent what you make it, and 90 percent how you take it.
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Every man's life is a fairy tale written by God's fingers.
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Who can worry about a career? Have a life.
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Music is not a profession. Music is a way of life - one that requires much professionalism.
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The question of what it is to live an 'authentic life', that's a complicated one.
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I had too many big passions in life and it gets in the way of work. You can't concentrate properly on the one thing.
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The roads of life are strewn with the wreckage of run-down and half-finished loves.
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The people I'm inspired by and I listen to are all ballsy, and I feel like I'm closer to an artist when they're open and honest.
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Conversation should be pleasant without scurrility, witty without affectation, free without indecency, learned without conceitedness, novel without falsehood.
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If a fish is the movement of water embodied, given shape, then cat is a diagram and pattern of subtle air.
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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.
