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.W. Somerset Maugham
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It's fun to get really intense and emotionally detailed and complicated.
Laura San Giacomo -
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.
Ferran Adria -
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.
Nate Ruess Fun. -
I was considered an ugly duckling.
Eartha Kitt -
How people are around a director, it really does affect everything, every detail of the life of the movie.
Daniel Day-Lewis -
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.
Tea Leoni
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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.
H. L. Mencken -
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.
Natalie Portman -
No formal course in fiction-writing can equal a close and observant perusal of the stories of Edgar Allan Poe or Ambrose Bierce.
H. P. Lovecraft -
In your darkest moments of despair, a friend's hand on yours will get you through the worst.
Taya Kyle -
I speak my mind. That's what we loved Tupac for.
Wale -
He who obtains has little. He who scatters has much.
Lao Tzu
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'The Satanic Verses' was denied the ordinary life of a novel. It became something smaller and uglier: an insult.
Salman Rushdie -
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.
Rachel Bloom -
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.
Tahl Raz -
I had no television when I was little, just a stack of old, beat-up comics from the 1950s and 1960s.
Daniel Clowes -
The incestuous relationship between government and big business thrives in the dark.
Jack Anderson -
The best cure for the body is a quiet mind.
Napoleon Bonaparte
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The two inventions of the century, the car and the computer, are gradually coming closer together.
Martin Winterkorn -
Surprisingly, I think if you're known on the Internet, you're probably an introvert.
Felicia Day -
The advice I am giving always to all my students is above all to study the music profoundly... music is like the ocean, and the instruments are little or bigger islands, very beautiful for the flowers and trees.
Andres Segovia -
Heaven gives its favourites-early death.
Lord Byron -
Death is a very dull, dreary affair, and my advice to you is to have nothing whatsoever to do with it.
W. Somerset Maugham