W. Somerset Maugham Quotes
The normal is what you find but rarely. The normal is an ideal. It is a picture that one fabricates of the average characteristics of men, and to find them all in a single man is hardly to be expected.
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There are only two forces that unite men - fear and interest.
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Being on 'The Sopranos' definitely prepared me for the militant secrecy of 'Mad Men.'
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A lot of times, women complain about men around them. It's not always someone else's fault. If you're the common denominator in 57 different relationships that didn't work out, then maybe, just maybe... it's you!
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Everyone in Hollywood is seeking fame and fortune; it's in the water here. Everyone from young women to old men - they all want it.
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I am a huge admirer of Elizabeth I, and this intriguing biography gives a wonderful picture of the era.
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I, for one, am tired of seeing movies about men damaging each other.
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I really wanted Michael Jackson to be in the first Men in Black, but he didn't want to be considered as an alien!
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The first 50 years of the cinema were absolutely great years. Original minds were at work establishing the ways to tell a story. And what is happening now is a copying, a pastiche-ing of what was done by great men.
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Is woman a religion? Well, perhaps you will have the chance of judging for yourselves if you go to America. There you will find men treating women with just the same respect formerly accorded only to religious dignitaries or to great nobles.
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Men are what their mothers made them.
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As long as there's land available, single-family homes will be built, and Colorado residents will always go for a single-family over a condo.
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I began with small roles in successful movies like 'No Country For Old Men' by the Coen brothers; but it was 'The Last Exorcism' that changed my life: with what I earned, I left Texas and moved to Los Angeles.
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It's hard for young players to see the big picture. They just see three or four years down the road.
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Men we shall have only as we make manhood the object of the work of the schools - intelligence, broad sympathy, knowledge of the world that was and is, and of the relation of men to it - this is the curriculum of that Higher Education which must underlie true life.
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Women are choosing to stay single rather than marry men who can't step up and provide.
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Time the great destroyer of other men's happiness, only enlarges the patrimony of literature to its possessor.
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That's the great thing about incubating something on the web: you have the potential to go to other platforms. Every single platform has a different audience that you find.
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Villains never know they are villains in a picture so I play this like I'm the nicest guy in the world.
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I'm proud to be Parisian, proud to be a BANLIEUSARD. Which means a man from the suburbs, from the streets, from the outskirt.
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I always feel guilty when I want to go get my nails done or hair done because it takes time away, but I know moms need that alone time, too.
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The retreat of the Arctic sea ice, the warming of the oceans, the rapid shrinking of the glaciers, the redistribution of species, the thawing of the permafrost—these are all new phenomena. It is only in the last five or ten years that global warming has finally emerged from the background “noise” of climate variability. And even so, the changes that can be seen lag behind the changes that have been set in motion. The warming that has been observed so far is probably only about half the amount required to bring the planet back into energy balance. This means that even if carbon dioxide were to remain stable at today’s levels, temperatures would still continue to rise, glaciers to melt, and weather patterns to change for decades to come.
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Convinced myself, I seek not to convince.
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The normal is what you find but rarely. The normal is an ideal. It is a picture that one fabricates of the average characteristics of men, and to find them all in a single man is hardly to be expected.
