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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But sometimes the women writers will pitch something and I'll hear it, but the men will keep talking.
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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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I had written in another draft a completely different kind of fight, but they said they couldn't afford to shoot it. They needed a fight scene, though, so I was told to put a fight scene in, but not the one I had written.
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I've never been on a television show as a regular before.
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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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Ultimately, education in its real sense is the pursuit of truth. It is an endless journey through knowledge and enlightenment.
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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 was lucky – I found what I love to do early in life.
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Throughout this country's history there have of course been systematic efforts to create an official underclass.
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All those football coaches who hold dressing-room prayers before a game should be forced to attend church once a week.
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It is not differences of opinion; it is geographical lines, rivers, and mountains which divide State from State, and make different nations of mankind.
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Nothing shakes my opinion of a book. Nothing -- nothing. Only perhaps if it's the book of a young person -- or of a friend -- no, even so, I think myself infallible.
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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.
