W. Somerset Maugham Quotes
You cannot write well or much (and I venture the opinion that you cannot write well unless you write much) unless you form a habit.
Quotes to Explore
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Never hate a song that's sold a half million copies.
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Your genome knows much more about your medical history than you do.
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Let us have peace.
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I have got prostate cancer, and I have to keep monitoring that. It's no problem, it's under control and I'm very cool about it, but other people are dying from it.
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There's a fast-track if you can do the networking. For some personalities it works, but for mine it doesn't.
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Since I played a warrior in 'Magadheera,' my character sported shoulder-length hair and a thick beard.
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The average Nigerian person has come to reconcile himself with the fact that his or her social progress remain essentially in his or her hands in collaboration with other fellow Nigerians and not merely relying on what government alone could provide for him or her.
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I just realized the best way to live your life is to just be you, as cliche as it sounds. I grew up trying to please everyone.
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If I didn't write, I'd be like a duvet cover; I have no other marketable skills. Clearly I'm not meant to do anything else.
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The secret of a leader lies in the tests he has faced over the whole course of his life and the habit of action he develops in meeting those tests.
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Man, I have had so much plastic surgery, I don't even recognize myself, sometimes. If I catch a glimpse in a window or something, I think it is someone else.
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I always tell women to use the fact that we offer a different point of view in a room full of men, to their advantage. Because we often stand out, we gain a unique platform to demonstrate our knowledge and capabilities.
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What led me to be an actor is that I have a strange something in me that can drastically change the way I appear to the world. Growing up, I couldn't understand why people would always have different ideas of me - but because of that I became aware of how you can manipulate your own ability to change. And then I learned to make a career of it.
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Nobody is faster than me.
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I hate the fact that people think 'compromise' is a dirty word.
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There are heads of royal families who control hereditary fortunes that defy comprehension.
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It's a myth that you have to wash your hair all the time.
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When I began writing, I didn't read any other children's poets... I didn't want to be influenced until I'd found my own voice. Now I read them all.
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White people, who for a long time live alone with Natives, get into the habit of saying what they mean, because they have no reason or opportunity for dissimulation, and when they meet again their conversation keeps the Native tone.
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It is not consistent with truth that a man should sacrifice half of his stomach only to God-that he should be sober in drinking, but intemperate in eating. Your belly is your God, your liver is your temple, your paunch is your altar, the cook is your priest, and the fat steam is your Holy Spirit; the seasonings and the sauces are your chrisms, and your belchings are your prophesizing...such a grossly- feeding Christian is akin to lions and wolves rather than God. Our Lord Jesus called Himself Truth and not habit.
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There are only the pursued, the pursuing, the busy and the tired.
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Whenever something went wrong when I was young - if I had a pimple or if my hair broke - my mom would say, 'Sister mine, I'm going to make you some soup.' And I really thought the soup would make my pimple go away or my hair stronger.
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You cannot write well or much (and I venture the opinion that you cannot write well unless you write much) unless you form a habit.
