W. Somerset Maugham Quotes
The prestige you acquire by being able to tell your friends that you know famous men proves only that you are yourself of small account.
Quotes to Explore
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I want my shows to be eerie and mysterious.
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I love a good Slash guitar riff. It's sexy!
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My work involves online dating, but I believe almost every behavior exhibited online has an offline corollary. Really, the medium doesn't change human nature.
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Corporations take the humanity out of trade - they take the happiness out and replace it with something that is ugly.
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English is really free for me; there's no limits to the music and the imagination. And French, it's just I live in Paris, and it's really a poetic language where you can really play with words.
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As a filmmaker, I really want to utilize the tools to carry the voice - my voice, and the voice of the characters.
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Love shouldn't be about jealousy or anything like that. It should be about commitment and being able to trust that person. If you can't have that from the get-go, there's a problem.
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I've always been an actor, a lowly actor without power, so I've never been corrupted. I've never even directed.
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I am the father of twin sons that were born in Philadelphia at Pennsylvania Hospital in 1983. They were 13 weeks premature. Gerry weighed 1 pound 14 ounces, and Zachary 1 pound 11 ounces. They were the first male twins to ever survive at Pennsylvania Hospital.
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I'd open doors for anyone who opens doors for me.
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I learned that five- and-six-year-old kids have already figured out how to be intolerant.
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Four hostile newspapers are more to be feared than a thousand bayonets.
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I never consciously got into comedy. It was sort of one of those things where I was a theater student, I was acting, I was doing comedy, I was doing dramatic stuff, so it's been something that I've always done and enjoyed doing and had an instinct to be relatively good at.
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I like the idea of sending my Aquazurra girls out with a lucky charm under their feet.
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The Rio Earth Summit in 1992 changed my life completely, turning me into an activist. From the air, you see things you can't see from the ground - you really understand the impact of man, even in a place you know well. My work is meant to convince people we can no longer live like this.
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It's such a diversion to be constantly thinking of better ways I can teach people math that my hunger is for that really, for new ways of translating the beauty of it.
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The great fun for me is these collaborators. I'm nothing by myself. Being with these people, whether it's the 'Homeland' cast or stage collaborators, they make you everything you are. They make you come to work. They make you be alive.
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Going vegetarian - and then vegan - has calmed me down, and it has also made me physically and emotionally strong. I do crave meat once in a while, but I find that spiritually, non-vegetarian food works against my emotional health.
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When I go home, I play with my baby dolls and strollers and diaper bags, and play with my sisters.
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In some ways, in 'The Queen of the Night,' I'm writing about some of the experience that I had with 'Edinburgh' where I was entirely unable to speak about what had happened to me as a child, but I could read from the novel.
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I'm part of an important movement that needs to happen.
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What is a portrait good for, unless it shows just how the subject was seen by the painter? In the old days before photography came in a sitter had a perfect right to say to the artist: 'Paint me just as I am.' Now if he wishes absolute fidelity he can go to the photographer and get it.
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I'm not going to be boxing forever, but I've put no time-cap on it, really.
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The prestige you acquire by being able to tell your friends that you know famous men proves only that you are yourself of small account.
