W. Somerset Maugham Quotes
The secret of play-writing can be given in two maxims: stick to the point, and, whenever you can, cut.
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I like men who paint or write or do something creative.
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Robots are good at things that are structured.
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These 'Sports Illustrated' people, they know how to hold a secret.
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I introduce her as the love of my life everywhere that we go. She introduces me as her current husband. So you can see how the relationship kinda works here.
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The best time to expand is when people are asleep at the wheel.
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My number one goal is to love, support and be there for my son.
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You can't write a screenplay if you've been doing a zero-hours contract. Which means that the people who write drama, the people who commission dramas, and the people who direct dramas all come from a small circle of society.
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For a long time, I said I didn't want to model. I was a dancer.
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Our goal is to build this up as a knowledge base that anyone can look at. We're not just interested in people answering their friends' one-off questions.
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The American public got to see for themselves every day, all day, how this trial progressed. There's a lot of value in the public being able to see how the system works.
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As a woman, I've learned that having a uniform of your staples or setting your look and saying what distinguishes you - like red lips or hair or whatever - leaves so much time for the rest of the day.
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You know, there's always someone in mind when I'm writing. You know, it's all comes from somewhere inside.
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I certainly don't have any boundaries myself, but I think I'm very aware of other people's.
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I knew Hunter Thompson since the '70s, and I loved him, but he would wear me out as I got older.
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There's no smarter politician out there than Bill Clinton.
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I'm not a one-issue person.
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I am that guy who will say things that people seem to think is a little edgy, a little racy.
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I definitely like performing to a crowd that's there to see a female hero.
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Games are a compromise between intimacy and keeping intimacy away.
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We may fight terrorism through brute force, but the terror that is unleashed in the name of religion can only be challenged through moral courage.
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When I'm not writing, I do a lot of research reading on the shape of civilization. Fiction can be a lot of different things... but I feel like it's my job to write about the way things are.
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Freedom across the world is a result of many individuals working together.
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The science of mathematics presents the most brilliant example of how pure reason may successfully enlarge its domain without the aid of experience.
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The secret of play-writing can be given in two maxims: stick to the point, and, whenever you can, cut.
