W. Somerset Maugham Quotes
We find things beautiful because we recognize them and contrariwise we find things beautiful because their novelty surprises us.
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In India, it is difficult for a cricketer to show that he is under some kind of stress. Here, you can only retire when you don't want to play anymore, or the motivation is lacking.
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Each of us becomes a new person as we re-describe the past.
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In terms of Rogers, I can't comment on how other fighters in the UFC would fare with Brett Rogers because that's just speculation.
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I work eight hours a day, but I'm not writing all that time. I'm thinking, editing, looking something up. Thinking is what I do a lot of.
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Our guiding principle was that design is neither an intellectual nor a material affair, but simply an integral part of the stuff of life, necessary for everyone in a civilized society.
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I am sure that the party system is right and necessary. There must be some scum.
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And my mouth is not a sewer, although some people may think it is.
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When I first started writing, I used to listen to music all the time because it would make time pass more quickly. And then I started to wonder if the music wasn't affecting my writing in ways that I didn't necessarily intend.
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I used to write bits and pieces of comedy material for various comics that were at the Windmill... as well as my film job, I was under contract, I was allowed to do that and everything.
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One should always play fairly when one has the winning cards.
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Color is a matter of taste and of sensitivity.
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Boy, I'll tell you, when the Rams drafted me No. 1, it surprised me. I was walking on air for days.
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I have a fascination with Flight 93. My emotions are mixed: awe, gratitude, fear, heartache, pride - even, in some ways, guilt.
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Death is a very dull, dreary affair, and my advice to you is to have nothing whatsoever to do with it.
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Even President Obama has not suggested he could get another country to pay for building a wall between Mexico and the United States.
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There's room for role models who make mistakes.
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I like to spend as much time with my friends and family as possible.
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Dried porcini add a substantial, deep flavour to otherwise more neutral vegetables. I use them in risottos, mashed roots and winter soups.
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Even though its common knowledge these days, it never ceases to amaze me that all the richness of our mental life - all our feelings, our emotions, our thoughts, our ambitions, our love life, our religious sentiments and even what each of us regards us his own intimate private self - is simply the activity of these little specks of jelly in your head, in your brain. There is nothing else.
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My biggest satisfaction is always when I make something beautiful and well-done that I can see on a real man or woman - not only in the glossy magazines.
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I was encouraged by my mother and, to a lesser extent, by my father.
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Because she favours solitude and indwelling, an artist can live a significantly more claustrophobic life that she had ever intended.
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We find things beautiful because we recognize them and contrariwise we find things beautiful because their novelty surprises us.
