W. Somerset Maugham Quotes
The most useful thing about a principle is that it can always be sacrificed to expediency.
Quotes to Explore
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You have to be un-comfortably comfortable in this business. There's always somebody else who wants what you have.
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My fiance likes drawing on napkins, which I save. I'm always scared I'll get caught taking a linen napkin from a restaurant!
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I always feel like rejection is my petrol. That's what keeps me going.
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I am especially fascinated with mermaids, and they are always coming out in pirate stories.
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Marriage happens; it can't be planned. When it has to happen, it will happen. Normally, what we always believe is that however prepared you are, if it's not meant to happen, it won't. And however much we have not planned, it will still happen if it's destined.
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I'm just in love with Burberry. Always have been, always will be.
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Nature can always be more complicated than we imagine.
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Always forgive your enemies - nothing annoys them so much.
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The genuine priest always feels something higher than compassion.
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Smarter is always the answer.
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For some reason, when I get to the 200m, I'm always a little bit nervous.
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One always wonders about roads not taken.
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Nice girls aren't always what they seem.
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It was always fun to skate with Paul Wylie and Paul Martini.
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You don't need money to be free. You can just say if you don't need stuff, you're always free.
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Hunger and homelessness aren't things we always want to talk about.
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The children of the revolution are always ungrateful, and the revolution must be grateful that it is so.
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I always paid attention to Lil Wayne - close attention. He's my idol. He's still my idol.
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I used to be really insecure about my self-education. I'm definitely always learning. But there's many ways to learn. There are many, many ways to always be a learner.
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As a writer, I had learned a lot on 'Margin Call' about embracing the weaknesses of a narrative and of a project. A story always has an inherent narrative weakness.
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I've always considered myself a character actor.
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Suddenly I was the man who got the part that every actor in the English language was trying to get. I was really scared. I had talked the talk, and now I had to walk the walk. For three days, I couldn't answer the phone.
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The hardest thing in the world, I now know, is to hold in your head that it is okay to think that you are right, but not to think so necessarily because everyone who disagrees with you is wrong or stupid or duped or bad.
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The most useful thing about a principle is that it can always be sacrificed to expediency.
