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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The stars are forth, the moon above the tops Of the snow-shining mountains. Beautiful! I linger yet with Nature, for the Night Hath been to me a more familiar face Than that of man; and in her starry shade Of dim and solitary loveliness, I learn'd the language of another world.
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I think it is important not to scream from the rooftops to make yourself heard, I want my work to do the talking for me.
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There is - and always will be - the legacy of chattel slavery in this nation, an obsession with racial and gender differences, but I think that, at its best, this nation is capable of creating standards for itself and reaching towards those standards.
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I would want the going-back-in-time superpower, so I could take back the stuff that I say and gets me in trouble with my wife.
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The love of complexity without reductionism makes art; the love of complexity with reductionism makes science.
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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.
