W. Somerset Maugham Quotes
Death is a very dull, dreary affair, and my advice to you is to have nothing whatsoever to do with it.
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It's fun to get really intense and emotionally detailed and complicated.
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When people arrive at El Bulli, everybody goes through the kitchen. It's a way of making them feel at home. When they leave, the only thing I ask is whether they've been happy. Everything in between, I don't particularly care.
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I think any branding for me is band-related. It's really weird to get used to the exposure, because I am a naturally introverted person, and I'm not exactly social. Occasionally I can get comfortable enough to talk, but I spend a lot of my days not talking, especially when I'm at home and not on tour.
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I was considered an ugly duckling.
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How people are around a director, it really does affect everything, every detail of the life of the movie.
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I was desperate to go back to New York and when 9/11 happened, I feared moving to the bulls-eye and that was very hard because I have a lot of family there and I really had to question what I didn't like about this community.
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You cannot survive if you do not know the past.
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Women always excel men in that sort of wisdom which comes from experience. To be a woman is in itself a terrible experience.
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Obviously it's much easier to say that you're going to follow your passions when you're financially secure, but at least we can take solace in the fact that we now have the time to pursue the things that we really want to pursue because now the option of doing things just for the money isn't necessarily there.
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No formal course in fiction-writing can equal a close and observant perusal of the stories of Edgar Allan Poe or Ambrose Bierce.
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In your darkest moments of despair, a friend's hand on yours will get you through the worst.
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It was really impossible to break through in Russia. We couldn't buy any balls. We really didn't have any courts, no rackets, nothing. And no people to practice with.
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I speak my mind. That's what we loved Tupac for.
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He who obtains has little. He who scatters has much.
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'The Satanic Verses' was denied the ordinary life of a novel. It became something smaller and uglier: an insult.
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I was doing these music videos online for a couple years, and they'd be doing well to varying degrees. And I released an album, and with the album, I released three new music videos, and one of them was featured on Jezebel.
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Some of the best logos are the simplest. One of the oldest is the mark used by the Bass brewery: a red triangle. Target has made a red circle with a red dot in the middle seem the very essence of affordable, hip practicality.
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I had no television when I was little, just a stack of old, beat-up comics from the 1950s and 1960s.
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Bailing out every bank that fails makes the system riskier, not safer.
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Social progress can be measured by the social position of the female sex.
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I back people who I think will be seeking help and advice. These are the best entrepreneurs.
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The advice you give to young directors for sure is to go out and become some version of a successful movie actor. Do that first and say yes to people like Terrence Malick and Clint Eastwood and Woody Allen when they come and offer you movies. It's a great front row seat to filmmaking.
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Hypocrisy is a detriment to progress. There's always a hidden agenda.
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Death is a very dull, dreary affair, and my advice to you is to have nothing whatsoever to do with it.
