W. Somerset Maugham Quotes
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The treatment by some towards these young refugees is hideously racist and utterly heartless. What's happening to our country?
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When I talk to young girls about clothes, I tell them to show a lot of brains.
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When you're young, you're stupid. You do silly things.
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When you are young you take the kindness people show you as your right.
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If there was less sympathy in the world, there would be less trouble in the world.
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From when I was young, I wanted to be an action hero. I always dreamed about being an action star. So finally, I made it.
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There are just so many young designers now.
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I had no trouble going from radio to TV - I just thought of TV as radio with pictures.
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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.
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When you have a core group of young players as we do, the future looks bright.
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My films do have characters who have trouble escaping the world around them.
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There are many reluctant young readers who haven't yet found books that make them laugh.
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One of the virtues of being very young is that you don't let the facts get in the way of your imagination.
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I was taught as a young child by my parents and family to love myself.
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I met in the street a very poor young man who was in love. His hat was old, his coat worn, his cloak was out at the elbows, the water passed through his shoes, - and the stars through his soul.
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To be seventy years young is sometimes far more cheerful and hopeful than to be forty years old.
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I can say I love working with women. Film is a man's world, and I really appreciate the opportunity to collaborate with women, especially young women.
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I came to Hollywood determined to follow in Jean Harlow's footsteps, but I was determined not to die young. My hope was to endure. And endure I have.
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The coming and going of the seasons give us more than the springtimes, summers, autumns, and winters of our lives. It reflects the coming and going of the circumstances of our lives like the glassy surface of a pond that shows our faces radiant with joy or contorted with pain.
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I've always liked SyFy.
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Expectation is contentment - Gain satiety.
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It's a career that's enticing because you go on stage, for example, and people clap. You get that affirmation, but you can't go into acting for that because it's really your own self-belief that's going to get you through.
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The trouble with young writers is that they are all in their sixties.
