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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One can never know enough. The unknown and its call lies even in what we know.
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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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The environmental movement, like all political processes, reacts best to disasters. But these are very slow, very gradual disasters in the making.
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These 'Sports Illustrated' people, they know how to hold a secret.
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I go straight from thinking about my narrator to being him.
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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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I never said most of the things I said.
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I almost laughed about the Machiavellian plans of the presidents of the United States.
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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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I have a wide spectrum, a wide demographic. I have the young girls, I have the gay community, I have many regular theatergoers. I do feel a tremendous responsibility and pride to be a role model for some of these young people.
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I've worked with people who wanted to be creative every day: it was like a goal to arrive with something very special. Sometimes it's just disturbing, because special is good when it's needed. But when it's not needed, it's confusing, and you go away from the authenticity by a strong desire to be unique and singular.
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I'm actually a very shy person. You'd be surprised how many leaders are shy. They're not all extroverts by nature.
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As Carl Sagan put it, “Science is a way of thinking much more than it is a body of knowledge.
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The secret of play-writing can be given in two maxims: stick to the point, and, whenever you can, cut.
