W. Somerset Maugham Quotes
The audience is not the least important actor in the play and if it will not do its allotted share the play falls to pieces.
Quotes to Explore
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It is human nature to hate the man whom you have hurt.
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When history is erased, people's moral values are also erased.
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Phrases that have historical significance or become headlines don't just magically appear in the moment. They are mindfully planned.
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How come foreign accents are so sexy? If I say, 'I'm going to the store,' it sounds boring, benign and rudimentary. But if it's said with an accent, it sounds fundamentally cool.
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Well, I was a big fan of the book and therein a huge fan of the girl Precious. And so I felt like I knew this girl. I felt like I'd grown up alongside her. I felt like she was in my family. She was my friend and she was like people I didn't want to be friends with.
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People have an idea that one is in control of a career, a lot more than you really are. You can engineer things to an extent. But you are at the mercy of what comes in across the desk.
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When a single author uploading his own books to Amazon can earn more money than a large N.Y. publisher exploiting both print and e-rights, there's something amiss.
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When I was in high school, I started getting into Japanese wrestling. For me to watch those matches, I had to order VHS tapes through catalogues, and these tapes were, like, $20 each.
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I think that Indy is special to me. The greater the distance between the last time I drove an Indy car and the next time, I wouldn't like that to be too big.
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I love baseball. And American Football, too. But not rugby.
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The influence of blogging is overall a very positive force in the media.
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Thank God for the potholes on memory lane.
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You have succeeded in life when all you really want is only what you really need.
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I think we respond well when we do something well.
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I chose the most explosive dress I could find. I put a ton of makeup on and some great round earrings. I looked like Jennifer Jones in Duel in the Sun.
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I not only work online through my various projects, but I am an avid user of online technologies to connect and engage with friends as well.
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When I was young I thought that money was the most important thing in life; now that I am old I know that it is.
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The post-totalitarian malady has taken its most acute form in Romania. And it has taken place for very specific reasons. The repression here has been more cruel, more brutal, than in other states caught in the inferno of a 'socialist paradise.'
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Without humility there can be no humanity.
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Nothing can be achieved without knowledge and yet everything can be achieved just through a pure heart.
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Listening is terribly important if you want to understand anything about people. You listen to what they say and how they say it, what they share and what they are reticent about, what they tell truthfully and what they lie about, what they hope for and what they fear, what they are proud of, what they are ashamed of. If you don't pay attention to other people, how can you understand their choices through time and how their stories come out?
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In many ways, I was a typical young guy out of college. I was at Oxford, where every night there'd be a late showing of some great film.
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The audience is not the least important actor in the play and if it will not do its allotted share the play falls to pieces.
