W. Somerset Maugham Quotes
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One of the strangest experiences one can have is to sleep on stage, as I once did in Sydney when I'd lost the key to my flat. I had to stay at night in a bed, which conveniently was on stage because my character Sandy Stone did his monologue from a bed. To wake up looking at a shadowy auditorium is a very peculiar feeling.
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Affirmative action works but we're going to need to muster all our political resources if we are to keep it in place.
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Obviously, you want to honour the sound of your music, but I'm definitely open to trying new things and making myself use a different palette of sounds.
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I am a news presenter, a news broadcaster, an anchorman, a managing editor - not a commentator or analyst.
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In committing an estimated 3,000 U.S. forces to join international Ebola relief efforts in West Africa, President Obama seems to be fulfilling the plans of highly influential progressive groups who seek to transform the American military into more of a social-work organization.
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Literature is memory written down. All literature is memory.
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My unconscious knows more about the consciousness of the psychologist than his consciousness knows about my unconscious.
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It's a sad commentary when I have to say that sometimes in our country we are real sensitive to race.
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The dirty little secret is that I grew up in a household where there were no carbohydrates allowed, ever. No cookies, no bread, no potatoes, no rice. My mother was very extreme in terms of what she served. Since I left home more than 40 years ago, I've been making it right for myself.
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I do body conditioning, spinning and yoga. On the treadmill, I'll do intervals of running flat and then on incline. I'll do that for an hour.
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It is easy enough to define what the Commonwealth is not. Indeed this is quite a popular pastime.
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I'm not a genius. I'm just a tremendous bundle of experience.
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Small businesses are the number one job creators in America. Therefore, it is important that the federal government creates an environment that helps them succeed, not one that sets them up to fail.
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Whenever I come to Delhi, I forget about eating right and watching my weight.
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A verbal contract isn't worth the paper it's written on.
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You have to let the world speak to you and then you speak, you know, so I'm in that moment now where I'm finding the world's voice.
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I'm the kind of person that responds strongly to a challenge.
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There is no right to strike against the public safety by anybody, anywhere, any time.
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My understanding is, the fans are so ravenous in Canada, they gnaw on the stars.
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Life is an unbroken chain of discoveries.
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Love the life you have while you create the life of your dreams. Don't think you have to wait for the latter to do the former.
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Do your little bit of good where you are; it's those little bits of good put together that overwhelm the world.
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Follow your inclinations with due regard to the policeman round the corner.
