W. Somerset Maugham Quotes
Reserve is an artificial quality that is developed in most of us but as the result of innumerable rebuffs.
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I can enjoy anywhere, and I can leave it. Life is about moving on.
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We must become more comfortable with probability and uncertainty.
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It is nasty. You can think that you know someone in this business and you really don't. You can be stabbed in the back very easily. You can be praised very easily. It doesn't matter who you are or what you do.
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Always keep that happy attitude. Pretend that you are holding a beautiful fragrant bouquet.
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When I was younger, I just put off the writing until later in the day, but now I write early every morning to get it done. I can only write for a few hours at a time; after that, my attention fades.
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I love Adele; she's a timeless, classic beauty. I think she's beautiful. She's just a real woman.
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Japan is the largest creditor country in the world, so we have made contributions to the stability of international markets and we want this IMF meeting to confirm that we will continue to contribute.
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We really tried hard not to make it a cricket book, it appeals to a much wider community.
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Stuff that I write isn't as similar to the stuff that I'm in, but I don't really care. I just do comedy.
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Christianity has kept itself going for centuries on hope alone, and has perpetrated all manner of naughtiness in the meantime.
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I think the Supreme Court has not yet caught up to an era in which one keeps one's papers in a cloud, not a castle.
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You go to drama school, and the people you revere and admire are those who work on the London stage, and you hope that's a world that you'll be able to break into and do enough occasional television and small film work to eventually get to the point where you're paying the bills.
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My second album was written while I was on the road promoting the first record. I tried to take my personal experiences and elevate them to universal experiences, so that I wasn't writing songs about living on a tour bus or being on a TV set for the first time.
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I like to make collages - paper collages.
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I am really passionate about my career and my music and I am so lucky to be able to do what I do for a job, so for all the early morning starts and long days, I could never trade it all in.
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The 2009 stimulus law got the ball rolling, allowing the agency to reduce and eliminate fees and raise loan guarantees to 90 percent of the total. I knew that we had the opportunity to use S.B.A. products to fill that gap in a rapid manner, as we ended up doing in the Recovery Act.
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Each and every one of us has unknowingly played a part in the obesity problem.
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China was the worst place I've ever been in my life.
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I'm a professor of media studies as well as humanities, and I'm an evangelist of popular culture, but when there's only media, then there's going to be a slow debasement of language, and that's what I think we're fighting.
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We're an ideal political family, as accessible as Disneyland.
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I'm a perfectionist, so doing a high quality, high caliber television show with great actors makes me feel like there's this whole world of television that I've never experienced.
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Everybody has their own ways of wanting to do things.
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Reserve is an artificial quality that is developed in most of us but as the result of innumerable rebuffs.
