W. Somerset Maugham Quotes
What has influenced my life more than any other single thing has been my stammer. Had I not stammered I would probably... have gone to Cambridge as my brothers did, perhaps have become a don and every now and then published a dreary book about French literature.
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The travel and tourism industry, it's just a huge part of our economy.
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I think you have to keep a childlike quality to play music or make a record.
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Always remember that better days are ahead - if not in this life, in the next.
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There have been a lot of exercises and I've had to force myself to go out for walks even when I didn't feel like it, but apart from that, I am a lot better.
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Bigotry toward any faith community cannot have any place in civilized society anywhere in the world.
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There's such a preoccupation with liquidity and such an unwillingness to invest beyond the horizon of the next quarter and making sure that the CEOs hit their quarterly earnings.
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The best time to expand is when people are asleep at the wheel.
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Acting is the most insecure profession in the world - you're insecure if you're successful, you're insecure if you're not. A tightrope walk without a net. It's a miracle I'm still standing!
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From the spinners, Anil and I have been together for a long time and I respect him a lot.
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No formal course in fiction-writing can equal a close and observant perusal of the stories of Edgar Allan Poe or Ambrose Bierce.
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Fortune cookies are a good idea. If the message is positive, it can make your day a little better.
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If I could travel back in time, I'd bring back the entire Wu-Tang Clan.
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The path of social advancement is, and must be, strewn with broken friendships.
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Everything is tennis for me, it's my career and it's entertainment, but it's also a business.
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I believe that it's better to have a conviction, believe strongly in something, and then the convictions create a style that reflects your mentality.
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Food is my favourite thing in the world. I always say if I ate what I actually wanted to eat I'd be in one of those electronic scooters because I'd be too big.
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There really are three types of 'religious' movies: the ones that make fun of it, the ones that vilify it and the ones that literally preach to the converted.
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A lot of my writer friends - some of whom are brilliant - work when the Muse calls them, for lack of a better description. You know, days of nothing, then this creative burst where they write for 36 hours straight fueled by caffeine and idealism.
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I hate when a guy brags... or he sweats.
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Anything you don’t understand, Mr. Rankin, you attribute to God. God for you is where you sweep away all the mysteries of the world, all the challenges to our intelligence. You simply turn your mind off and say God did it.
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Lots of people let it go by and never accomplish what they want. I just wanted to see what I could do.
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I love 'Breaking Bad.' I'd watch Bryan Cranston read the phone book, for days.
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The merest presence of life, even the smallest possible quantity of volition, desire and intent was enough to reverse the process by which the eternal landscape of hell made itself known.
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What has influenced my life more than any other single thing has been my stammer. Had I not stammered I would probably... have gone to Cambridge as my brothers did, perhaps have become a don and every now and then published a dreary book about French literature.
