W. Somerset Maugham Quotes
In Hollywood, the women are all peaches. It makes one long for an apple occasionally.
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I have great respect for children. And I have great respect for their ability as writers.
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Being a model, you're always the product of somebody else's vision.
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My opinion, my conviction, gains immensely in strength and sureness the minute a second mind as adopted it.
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One of the important lessons of the Internet is, how easy it is to get things done completely shapes what gets created. For that reason, technologies like Amazon's cloud service are very important. Even if they aren't technically impressive, they make things easy to do.
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I feel like an alien. I feel people don't like me. People behaved strangely after 'Rockstar.'
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As Mayor, I will use my experience to make San Francisco a place where small businesses can thrive.
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I think any time you bring those guys in, one with a lot of playoff experience, with rings - those guys won - guys in the locker room gravitate towards those guys. Those guys have been there, so there's a lot that they can teach the guys.
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As scary as it is, I like making real, direct eye contact with people from the stage. In a sense, it's like modeling: that feeling of locking in and projecting some kind of emotion to try to captivate people.
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In a repressed society, artists fulfil a sense of harking back to instant gratification, or immediate expression, by doing things that function on the edge of society, or outside of what is conventionally accepted.
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We can let circumstances rule us, or we can take charge and rule our lives from within.
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I obtained eight years of elementary education in a two-room school, where I encountered a stern but engaging teacher who awakened my intellect with instruction that would seem rigorous today in many colleges. History figured large in the curriculum, exciting for me what was to become an enduring interest.
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When kids are met with the highest expectations and given the extra supports they need, they can be as motivated as kids anywhere.
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People with water-borne diseases occupy more than 50% of hospital beds across the world. Does the answer lie in building more hospitals? Really, what is needed is to give them clean water.
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At an unprecedented time with the worst attack ever on our soil, our President displayed extraordinary determination, leadership and resolve when history was thrust upon him and the United States.
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I have been in America only once since Mr. Clinton became your president - as a speaker at the United Nations.
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I'd rather stay out of the limelight until I've done something I feel proud of.
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I've been doing musical theater since I was a kid. And look for a CD from me in the future. I want to write all the songs!
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Hollywood has to be a better reflection of the world we live in.
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If you take Darwinian theory, make a 'scientific' principle out of it, put it into political action, then you have something like Nazi Germany.
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I was raised in New York City and raised in the New York City theater world. My father was a theater director and an acting teacher, and it was not uncommon for me to have long discussions about the method and what the various different processes were to finding a character and exploring character and realizing that character.
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I wondered a little why God was such a useless thing. It seemed a waste of time to have him. After that he became less and less, until he was... nothingness.
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George W. cares as much about climate change as you would expect from a Texas oilman.
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More people have been brought into the church by the kindness of real Christian love than by all the theological arguments in the world.
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In Hollywood, the women are all peaches. It makes one long for an apple occasionally.
