W. Somerset Maugham Quotes
It is salutary to train oneself to be no more affected by censure than by praise.
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My father was in law enforcement growing up. He was a probation officer. And I've always understood the point of view of the peace officer, you know, because of my dad.
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Every country when they have Olympics, a lot of people come out opposed.
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Metro never really wanted me for anything. I was always the one who happened to be free when their first choice was not.
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In so much of politics you're not allowed to disagree with what's been agreed.
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Life is a school of probability.
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I'm like a mechanic. If you break down and phone the AA, they'll come to you whether it's raining or snowing. That's what an actor should do.
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It's very hard to maintain focus in the gym.
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Every day in the year there comes some malice into the world, and where it comes from is no good place.
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While make-up helps to enhance one's features, too much of it tends to hide a person's features.
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I was reading my son some fables; it made for good nighttime reading. These stories were very vivid and very strange and occasionally bizarrely violent. It was a very free landscape.
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I'd feel guilty just doing gags.
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How can a woman be expected to be happy with a man who insists on treating her as if she were a perfectly normal human being.
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I spent a lot of time with a crown on my head.
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Time is the most valuable thing on earth: time to think, time to act, time to extend our fraternal relations, time to become better men, time to become better women, time to become better and more independent citizens.
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Facetiousness is allowable when it is the most proper instrument of exposing things apparently base and vile to due contempt.
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We can help show data on how much the kids can improve when their home life changes a little bit.
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As governor, I'm spending my time focused in three areas: creating jobs, reducing the expense of government and schools.
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Westerns are a type of picture which everybody can see and enjoy. Westerns always make money. And they always increase a star's fan following.
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The duty of rhetoric is to deal with such matters as we deliberate upon without arts or systems to guide us, in the hearing of persons who cannot take in at a glance a complicated argument or follow a long chain of reasoning.
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A reviewer once commented that my urban fantasy novels were paced more like epic fantasy, in that they relied on complex world-building and a gradual immersion in the lives of the characters.
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The only thing that ever consoles man for the stupid things he does is the praise he always gives himself for doing them.
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No one is in charge of this process, this is what makes history so interesting, it's a runaway freight train on a dark and stormy night.
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I do have an outsider's complex of getting made fun of. I was made fun of as a kid, and I don't have the stomach for it.
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It is salutary to train oneself to be no more affected by censure than by praise.
