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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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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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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I think people are too hard on the Pistols. The Pistols started the whole punk thing and never saw much money.
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The image of Russian troops pouring into Ukraine and encircling military units in Crimea has been a wake-up call that will reverberate for a generation.
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The president is just the coach of a football team. You need the right support, the right stadium, the right players, the right staff. An excellent coach is not going to win games.
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If most American cities are about the consumption of culture, Los Angeles and New York are about the production of culture - not only national culture but global culture.
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The mind is never blank. If it were… how would you know?
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Cleanliness becomes more important when godliness is unlikely.
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The English king's power was curbed by Parliament, though that wasn't always a good thing, as politicians often behave no better than monarchs - there are just more of them.
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what is seen must always be the outcome of much that is unseen.
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I never pursued acting with, like, auditions. If anything, I was given roles by people who knew me and liked what I did.
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It is salutary to train oneself to be no more affected by censure than by praise.