W. Somerset Maugham Quotes
A writer need not devour a whole sheep in order to know what mutton tastes like, but he must at least eat a chop. Unless he gets his facts right, his imagination will lead him into all kinds of nonsense, and the facts he is most likely to get right are the facts of his own experience.
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With the rapid growth of Internet users in China bringing online video into a new paradigm, the market scale we first envisioned as an online video website back in 2006 has grown significantly.
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When I write, I create really absurd situations which become false because I am after the joke.
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I never did a dirty armpit. You can look dirty, but you can't be dirty.
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When you can score three goals without the most prolific scorer in the world, you know you have a lot of depth, and it gives you confidence.
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Sharing is the essence of social media.
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I will say this: I think 'Big Brother' is the biggest snooze known to mankind.
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I'm superstitious... but not like wear the same underwear for two weeks superstitious.
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Love is only a dirty trick played on us to achieve continuation of the species.
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There was this cereal, and it had a special promotion with a CD inside the box that had a really simple music-making program on it. I got it, and that opened my mind to being able to make music on a computer and seeing all the different layers.
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I'm cool with myself. If I can't have the body of Angie Bassett, so be it.
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When I was a child, I was one of the kids who wore black all the time, and when the kids asked me why I wore black, I said things like, 'I'm mourning the death of modern society.' I mean, I was a riot.
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Beware of the naked man who offers you his shirt.
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I've got some gift for languages. You follow your gift. But Latin's not easy.
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I want to be different and have a good story. If it's a good story, then everybody is trying to tell it, everybody is better for it, and it's just more fun.
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I'd rather win two or three, lose one, win two or three more. I'm a great believer in things evening out. If you win a whole bunch in a row, somewhere along the line you're going to lose some too.
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Every word is like an unnecessary stain on silence and nothingness.
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I knew I would get offers to play the villain after 'Kick,' and I had already decided to reject all of them.
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I've found that people get particularly frustrated and shut down when women in fiction are disgusting or disordered.
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She comes from the Midwest. She had me at a very young age and raised me on her own. She's a very hard worker.
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In the piano, one has the instrument complete before he begins; but in the case of the voice, the instrument has to be developed by study.
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When child actors act well they're just reacting to situations, and they're acting very real because their life experience is so short; there's no history to fall back on.
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You can only have lasting peace based on justice.
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No totalitarians, no wars, no fears, famines or perils of any kind can really break a man's spirit until he breaks it himself by surrendering. Tyranny has many dread powers, but not the power to rule the spirit.
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A writer need not devour a whole sheep in order to know what mutton tastes like, but he must at least eat a chop. Unless he gets his facts right, his imagination will lead him into all kinds of nonsense, and the facts he is most likely to get right are the facts of his own experience.
