W. Somerset Maugham Quotes
Most people are such fools that it is really no great compliment to say that someone is above the average.
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Using phrases or mantras to encourage and comfort myself has been a powerful practice for me. For years, I would say to myself 'Remember the purple sky' when I was feeling anxious, which to me meant remember a sense of internal spaciousness and kindness toward myself.
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In the future, I want to have super-fights.
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I was in graduate school. I had a birth control accident and went to get the morning after pill.
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My parents have been with me every step of the way.
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Well, I - you know, the scripture says that God works by faith. And you have to have faith. You have to have trust in God so that God can work.
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For me, great music doesn't just have to fall into one category or one genre and I love appreciating all kinds of music.
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Architecture is undistinguished, sometimes derelict, but occasionally, as in 'Post and Beam,' there is something arresting in a setting... the building behind the Cathedral.
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When you want to fool the world, tell the truth.
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When I won the belt, it was kind of a precedent... The only Canadian to have ever held it.
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I've always exuded some connection to my sexuality even as a kid. So to me, being sexy means staying connected to that part of me.
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We are not opposed to public transportation. We are opposed to wasteful boondoggles.
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Even in the angels there is the subordination of one hierarchy to another, and in the heavens, and all the bodies that are moved, the lowest by the highest and the highest in their turn unto the Supreme Mover of all.
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I think people should know more of Africa in terms of its joie de vivre, its feeling for life. In spite of the images that one knows about Africa - the economic poverty, the corruption - there's a joy to living and a happiness in community, living together, in community life, which may be missing here in America.
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Who cares about the clouds when we're together? Just sing a song and bring the sunny weather.
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Oh my God, Betty White is actually everything that you would expect her to be like.
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You have to be brave and not always play likeable people. It's difficult, because there's a demand for the hero or heroine to be very likeable.
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One of the side benefits of staying in the closet is you can have a much bigger career.
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I think all television has to be about relationships and I don't think horror for the sake of it can work unless you're able to ground it in some kind of relationship.
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Within the U.S., you could have argued that most people who watch 'Mad Men' would watch 'House of Cards.' But the viewing is much more on par with the large-scale mainstream things like 'The Walking Dead.' It was much younger than we thought.
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People ask 'How does doing a film compare to doing an ad?' Well, when you're doing a commercial you don't have to sell tickets. You have a captured audience. Which is actually completely rare and great; it gives you a lot of freedom. When you make a film, you have to do advertisements for the film.
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After spending three years of my life looking into this, I am more convinced than ever that the U.S. government's responsibility for the drug problems in South Central Los Angeles and other inner cities is greater than I ever wrote in the newspaper.
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All I want is an education, and I am afraid of no one.
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I decided to combine my musical background, business education and creative abilities - and go into the record business.
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Most people are such fools that it is really no great compliment to say that someone is above the average.
