W. Somerset Maugham Quotes
Old age has its pleasures, which, though different, are not less than the pleasures of youth.
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I am neither a Bengali nor am I from Delhi's St Stephen's. I am an Allahabad boy.
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Most actors can't make any kind of living.
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Acting is exciting. It is different every time you do it.
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I like to go out and write. So I'll often go to a Starbucks or a local coffee bar, and I'll sit there and I'll write. I can write pretty much anywhere.
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No matter who you meet in life, you take something from them, positive or negative.
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If people hate me they hate me.
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Books about spies and traitors - and the congressional hearings that follow the exposure of traitors - generally assume that false-negative errors are much worse than false-positive errors.
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I remember someone once said there is a practical aspect to my designs, and I remember thinking, 'That doesn't sound so creative,' but that is actually the truth. There is a practicality to it. I don't design just to design. There is a reason and, hopefully, an interesting reason behind it - that is where my creativity comes in.
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If you write a novel alone you sit and you weave a little narrative. And it's O.K., but it's of no account.
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Cleanliness becomes more important when godliness is unlikely.
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I am Patrick, a sinner, most uncultivated and least of all the faithful and despised in the eyes of many.
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When an issue is so fraught with partisanship, a special counsel provides some modicum of transparency and accountability rather the the veil of politics.
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I'm a machine man, and I head a machine.
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The more walking-around money I have, the less I walk around.
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I'm addicted to 'Scandal.' Joe Morton is the devil, and I love him. I am addicted to 'Boardwalk Empire.' Jeffrey Wright is the devil, and I love him.
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I want to pick good projects, I want to work with great directors and try not to put too much pressure on myself and just read things for the story and recognize when I'm drawn to something for the right reasons and try to maintain some sanity. Sanity would be good. I'd like to have a little sanity!
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My dad was my first coach and drove me extremely hard from a very young age.
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Fishing is very meditative; you need to be able to give up control and cast out the line and then hope for the best, so in that way, it's quite like acting.
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I've got a publicist at Houghton Mifflin Harcourt who's been working little miracles for me, but it's true the budgets aren't what they once were in terms of advertisement and book tours.
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Sometimes your friends are your lovers, or have been at one time.
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I prefer my prose evocative rather than simply effective, with a bit of poetry to it.
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I always love the quirky stuff, which is why I love 'Childrens Hospital.' That really pushes the envelope of comedy.
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I own my own time.
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Old age has its pleasures, which, though different, are not less than the pleasures of youth.
