W. Somerset Maugham Quotes
Do you absolutely despise me, Walter?" "No." He hesitated and his voice was strange. "I despise myself.
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I drove long distances like the 24 hours of Le Mans for years. But even this racing is now over. I retired.
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To be honest, it's easier for me to speak with an American accent.
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Honest communication is a rare thing.
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With the common Iranian threat bringing the Sunni Arab world and Israel closer together, an Israeli-Palestinian peace would go a long way in improving relations and rebuffing Iran's regional ambitions.
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In my theater work, I've had much more three-dimensional, broader-stroke characters.
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Being bi-racial and being from the country, I can talk to guys like Travis Frederick from Wisconsin and Doug Free from Wisconsin. And then I can go over and talk to Dez Bryant. I mean, think about the two different standpoints you need to have a real conversation with both, to really understand what they've been through.
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As a director, there is nothing more fun than seeing an audience screaming and jumping. You are the ultimate puppet master, controlling the emotions of the audience.
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I like to be left alone when I'm not working.
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I've had faith my whole life that there was someone looking out for me, a spirit guide, a soul guide.
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My full name's Jonathan Kimble, but my parents didn't want to call me either. So for a while, I went by Kim, which is a name for a girl or a Korean person.
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I could have easily never worked again after 'Precious.' I could be back at my receptionist job and no one would be surprised, but I'm having a very crazy little career that no one thought would happen. Although that was never the plan.
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Blues was my first love. It was the first thing where I said, 'Oh man, this is the stuff.' It just sounded so raw and honest, gut-bucket honest. From then I started rebelling.
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Business as usual will not be accepted by any part of this city.
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More than 13,000 Malaysians travel to the U.K. to study in British universities every year.
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I'm into sincerity in music and sincerity in art. If it doesn't feel true, I don't want to do it. Things that are too dramatic scare me. I think that's why I don't always fit into the world of performing arts.
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It's a good question, because to be believable is the only way that you could be successful.
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Everything from the little house was in the wagon, except the beds and tables and chairs. They did not need to take these, because Pa could always make new ones.
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The sport would not survive today if drivers were being killed at the rate they were in the 1960s and '70s. It would have been taken off the air. It is beamed into people's living rooms on Sunday afternoons, with children watching.
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Malice can always find a mark to shoot at, and a pretence to fire.
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I always knew I had something to say even when nobody else wanted to listen.
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If Meekmahan ever came to the Hardy compound, I would tell Meekmahan, face-to-face, 'You'll fade away and classify yourself as obsolete! Obsolete!'
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My parents were very humanistic, but where we lived was not the cultural center of the world. Hardly. So I came to New York for two reasons: to find my own kin and also to get a job. And that's what I came to New York for in '67.
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Do you absolutely despise me, Walter?" "No." He hesitated and his voice was strange. "I despise myself.
