W. Somerset Maugham Quotes

In heaven, when the blessed use the telephone they will say what they have to say and not a word besides.

W. Somerset Maugham

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• I love playing live, I don't like studios all that much. I need the reaction of the audience.

  

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• I have a day job. I can make movies when I want to.

  

  Warren Beatty
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• I'm really, really interested in the job of acting. I can really care less about being famous. I'm more about the work, and 'The Big C' was amazing, so I wanted to be a part of it.

  

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• What I have is P.H. positive chronic myeloid leukemia, which is an aberration in your white blood cells.

  

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• Understand that the right to choose your own path is a sacred privilege. Use it. Dwell in possibility.

  

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• I am a citizen of the world.

  

  Abbas Kiarostami
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• Good food and a warm kitchen are what makes a house a home. I always tried to make my home like my mother's, because Mom was magnificent at stretching a buck when it came to decorating and food. Like a true Italian, she valued beautification in every area of her life, and I try to do the same.

  

  Rachael Ray
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• When the dog looks at you, the dog is not thinking what kind of a person you are. The dog is not judging you.

  

  Eckhart Tolle
  • Thinking
  • Dog
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• If my daughter has a bad dream and wants to get into my bed, I'm a sucker for her sweet face and warm body next to mine, so I let her jump in. I should tell her to go to bed, but secretly I love it.

  

  Lara Spencer
  • Love
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• Filming 'Eclipse' - Eclipse was my favorite book so I was really excited to start filming the movie. I just love that it's the height of the love triangle. 'Twilight' develops Edward and Bella's relationship, 'New Moon' develops Jacob and Bella's and in 'Eclipse,' the three of them are physically together.

  

  Taylor Lautner
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• I am what they call a chubby-skinny guy. I appear to be normal and have the look of an in-shape man, but if we were to go to a pool party I would go with my shirt on.

  

  Adam Pally
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• I got a gymnastics scholarship to college, fell in love with my true love of my whole life - who I'm married to now - and he was a virgin too. It was very romantic.

  

  Victoria Jackson
  • Life
  • Love
  • True

• The two World Wars came in part, like much modern literature and art, because men, whose nature is to tire of everything in turn... tired of common sense and civilization.

  

  F. L. Lucas
  • World
  • Men
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• Just after graduation in 1966, like many of my contemporaries, I applied for research training at the National Institutes of Health. Perhaps because his wife was a poet, Ira Pastan agreed to take me into his laboratory, despite my lack of scientific credentials.

  

  Harold E. Varmus
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• At the heart of every great movie is conflict. It's the same with a meeting. There should be conflict and tension.

  

  Patrick Lencioni
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• Emotions should be real; one shouldn't come across as acting.

  

  Mahesh Babu
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• I don't sleep well. I rehash everything in bed. The mind's still working.

  

  Hale Irwin
  • Mind
  • Sleep
  • Bed

• We do not have to accept the world as we find it. And we have a responsibility to leave our world a better place and never walk by on the other side of injustice.

  

  Ed Miliband
  • World
  • Responsibility
  • Walk

• Aretha Franklin was tough. She turned out to be good, but she was, you know, she was - she's a very - she's a very wonderful, but in some ways, shy woman. You don't think about that when you see how she emotes and performs.

  

  Ed Bradley
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• A correct answer is like an affectionate kiss, Goethe said; a correct answer, Gertrude would have said, is like a slap in the face.

  

  Randall Jarrell
  • Kiss

• I spent a night of watchfulness unto prayer, like Jacob, wrestling the whole night for the Lord's blessing, and towards morning the light of His countenance did very graciously arise upon me. My trust and confidence are renewed in Him, blessed and praised be His adorable name!

  

  Stephen Grellet
  • Trust
  • Blessed
  • Name

• There are all sorts of despicable people who journalists have done interviews with, and it's been useful. Isn't more information better than less information?

  

  Peter Bergen
  • People
  • Done

• I went public too soon. Stay private as long as you can.

  

  Bill Gates
  • Public
  • Private

• In heaven, when the blessed use the telephone they will say what they have to say and not a word besides.

  

  W. Somerset Maugham
  • Heaven
  • Blessed
  • Use