W. Somerset Maugham Quotes
It is salutary to train oneself to be no more affected by censure than by praise.
Quotes to Explore
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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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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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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 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 real problem is not why some pious, humble, believing people suffer, but why some do not.
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I think I'm much too earnest to be as cool as 'Boyd Crowder'.
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Any fool can write a novel but it takes real genius to sell it.
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A lot of people think that reptiles don't feel, and they do. I think everyone should keep in mind what it is they are buying and if it is really worth it to them.
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I'm a lot more interested in people than I used to be. I used to be most interested in abstract ideas, and people were an afterthought, but that's changed a bit.
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What office is there which involves more responsibility, which requires more qualifications, and which ought, therefore, to be more honorable, than that of teaching?
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Unattractive people are more obsessed with looks.
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No adultery is bloodless.
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It is salutary to train oneself to be no more affected by censure than by praise.
