W. Somerset Maugham Quotes
It's a funny thing about life; if you refuse to accept anything but the best, you very often get it.
W. Somerset Maugham
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Remember that life's big changes rarely give advance warning.
H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
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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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Frank Capra, Hollywood's Horatio Alger, lights with more cinematic know-how and zeal than any other director to convince movie audiences that American life is exactly like the 'Saturday Evening Post' covers of Norman Rockwell. 'It's A Wonderful Life,' the latest example of Capracorn, shows his art at a hysterical pitch.
Manny Farber
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Let me tell you something - being thought of as a beautiful woman has spared me nothing in life. No heartache, no trouble. Love has been difficult. Beauty is essentially meaningless and it is always transitory.
Halle Berry
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Life is like playing a violin solo in public and learning the instrument as one goes on.
Samuel Butler
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Art is always an exaggeration in some sense; in color, in form, even in theme, etc... but it has always been this way. It is the same with the nature of some works by Giotto or Massacio, or the color of life as expressed by Van Gogh.
Fernando Botero
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My mother's passion for something more, to write a different destiny for a dirt-poor farmer's daughter, was to shape my entire life.
Faye Dunaway
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Personal relationships are usually my biggest inspirations for writing my songs. The best way for me to write a song is to visualise the story in my head, and I start humming a melody, and before you know it, a song is born.
Nadia Ali
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Be aware of who in your life is actually interested in hearing you discuss your writing, and who's just asking to be polite. Listening to writers talk about their work is often excruciatingly dull.
Hanya Yanagihara
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You owe it to yourself to be the best person possible. Because if you are, others will want to be with you, want to provide you with the things you want in exchange for what you're giving to them.
Harry Browne
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I think Secretary's funny, it is about sex, and there's a lot of sex in it, sex is the key, but you're talking about a lot of other complicated things.
Maggie Gyllenhaal
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The original 'Star Wars' that I was a part of really was the beginning of my working life.
Harrison Ford
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I'm mostly influenced by life, what's around me, and my own childhood.
Jack Prelutsky
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The theater, which is in no thing, but makes use of everything-gestures, sounds, words, screams, light, darkness-rediscovers itself at precisely the point where the mind requires a language to express its manifestations.... To break through language in order to touch life is to create or recreate the theatre.
Antonin Artaud
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I finished 'America America,' and I knew I had to write another book, not just for personal reasons but because I had a contract.
Ethan Canin
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Slashing its way to the finish line, 'Black Swan' is the first ballet movie for highbrow horror fans for whom ballet itself signifies little to nothing. Those of us who know and love ballet can only look on it with a different kind of horror.
James Wolcott
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It's a funny thing about life; if you refuse to accept anything but the best, you very often get it.
W. Somerset Maugham
