W. Somerset Maugham Quotes
The artist produces for the liberation of his soul. It is his nature to create as it is the nature of water to run down the hill.
Quotes to Explore
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Money is our madness, our vast collective madness.
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I spend all my time right now trying to combat music retail and copyright.
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I used to do a lot of serious theatre during my school and college days. Comedy was only reserved for youth festival and inter-college competitions. Then once 'The Great Indian Laughter Challenge' was launched, a regional channel in Punjab started a program based on that. I participated in it and emerged as the winner.
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Love is not the dying moan of a distant violin - it's the triumphant twang of a bedspring.
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I just respect Kanye as an artist.
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I find the whole situation of confronting an audience terrifying.
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When you're a war correspondent, the reader is for you because the reader is saying, 'Gee, I wouldn't want to be doing that.' They're on your side.
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All I remember is the last time I played a videogame, it was Space Invaders.
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I have a severe Google Reader habit. I think people will use blog forms and Twitter to contrive fiction.
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The ability to calibrate risk doesn't happen rationally.
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Basically, my idea and explorations on fashion have not changed; however, I believe I'm going state-of-the-art on fashion.
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Upon the death of my father, our family and myself were emotionally and financially exhausted.
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We're in a world that celebrates things: success, beauty, money. And I reckon that's really about 4 per cent of the world. The rest of us are just getting on with it.
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Doubt yourself and you doubt everything you see. Judge yourself and you see judges everywhere. But if you listen to the sound of your own voice, you can rise above doubt and judgment. And you can see forever.
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I don't understand why people really get upset about something that doesn't affect them at all.
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Public appearances are a headache. I hold mine down to a minimum.
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I am pretty hard on myself. But I think that's how it has to be if you want to keep growing as an actor.
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I stay true to myself and my style, and I am always pushing myself to be aware of that and be original.
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I am a vigilant monarchist. I want to see things evolve. The direction the monarchy seems to be moving in - towards a more mainland-European model - is one I would feel sympathetic about.
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Should the fragrance of Thy praise be shed abroad by any of the divers tongues of the world, out of the East or out of the West, it would, verily, be prized and greatly cherished.
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I get to sing and act and write and create and produce for a living and share art with people, and I feel like a piece of that is in honor of those who came before me.
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"God", "the immortality of the soul", "salvation", "the beyond"-even as a child I had no time for such notions, I do not waste any time upon them-maybe I was never childish enough for that?
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The only people that ever stand up and tell the truth are who? Intelligence officers. Because our culture is, never break faith with the truth. We'll tell you, you don't have to drag it out of us.
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The artist produces for the liberation of his soul. It is his nature to create as it is the nature of water to run down the hill.
