W. Somerset Maugham Quotes
It must be a fault in me that I am not gravely shocked at the sins of others unless they personally affect me.
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Weddings are really good for making you feel terrible about yourself if you're not where you want to be in life.
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Once I actually get in the studio and I start working, I'm fine, but it's just getting there and these hours of torment with myself and self doubt, thinking 'I'm useless' and 'Who am I, conning myself into thinking I can do it again.'
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You know, I hate to sound self-involved, but I feel like I haven't peaked yet.
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My awkward stage extended well into high school.
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When I was a postdoc, I jotted every fresh thought on a three-by-five card and kept them in a card catalogue.
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It is faith that drives us to build, a belief that we cannot be limited by lack of nerve or airspace.
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After 'Chandni Bar' there was a shutdown of such bars in Mumbai. After 'Page 3' people started avoiding such events. 'Traffic Signal' exposed the money flow through the mafia. I'm not apologetic about the brutal truth in my films. Almost 70% of my films are based on reality, and 30% I fictionalize or change to suit my film.
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In giving freedom to the slave, we assure freedom to the free - honorable alike in that we give and what we preserve. We shall nobly save, or meanly lose, the last best hope of earth.
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Every adverse development across the world affects the rest of the world in some way.
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My life has been a whirlwind since the '94 Olympics.
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No one can solve an issue where there is no economic model yet.
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Yes, I think especially the Pentecostal churches, you know, that there's been such a growth in Pentecostalism. And it's a rejection of the much more dour and barren kind of Calvinist worship and also, the very formal Catholic forms of worship.
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It is impossible for you to be angry and laugh at the same time. Anger and laughter are mutually exclusive and you have the power to choose either.
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Sometimes I'll turn the channel and there's the movie and I can honestly say that those last few minutes always fascinate me. It's one of the rare instances when image, music, and drama work effectively.
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It is true that God is even in the tiger, but we must not go and face the animal. So it is true that God dwells even in the most wicked, but it is not meet that we should associate with the wicked.
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Hamm: There's something dripping in my head. A heart, a heart in my head.
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Nothing is crueller than children who come from good homes.
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If people of colour do not exercise their democratic right to vote, they will remain an invisible, voiceless, and largely ignored part of the electorate.
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But I've always liked to be the kind of drummer and musician who likes to go outside of what's expected of me, and I've always been able to do more than you necessarily hear with every band I've ever played in.
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Floating in the void free of gravity I made my way along the side of the ship. I listened to my own breaths. It was so dark and I was so weightless that I had to look for my bubbles to be sure which way was up. I swam backward a little away from the boat and into outer space and waved my arm through the water. Sure enough the phosphorescents appeared trailing my movement like the tail of a shooting star. I let myself tip upside down and floated there watching the gentle snowstorm marveling that a world of such strangeness existed here all the time just under the surface.
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If someone is very upper-class, you have a stereotype of him which is probably true. If someone has a working-class accent, you have no idea who you're talking to.
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The most difficult thing for me as an artist, as a creator of music, is lyrics. But everything else, I just do it.
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There's no question about the fact that for Democrats, Texas is a tough place.
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It must be a fault in me that I am not gravely shocked at the sins of others unless they personally affect me.
