W. Somerset Maugham Quotes
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Having Black hair is unique in that Black women change up styles a lot. You can walk down one street block in New York City and see 10 different hairstyles that Black women are wearing: straight curls, short cuts, braids - we really run the gamut.
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There is no sense in making a film that no-one will go and see, just to create a perfect, but useless, work of art.
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When I go to my health club, and it's in the basement, you have to take the elevator down. And this drives me crazy. Why can't there be a stairway? At least make it as easy to exercise as it is to not exercise. It's in society's interest for me to take the stairs.
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I have crazy friends, so a lot of times when we're out, people recognize me on the street, but they will yell, 'This is Cameron Boyce!' and just run! They do that. Then I'm in the middle of the street with people looking at me.
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I have to make sure that I make good choices and that if I put my name on it, it's a high-quality endeavor and that I have time to be a human being.
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I love the truth. Tell the truth and live the truth, because we've seen enough lies and look what it's doing.
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I have a wonderful husband, and we have had a great life.
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There's an energy in an urban core that you just don't get anywhere else.
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I'm a private person. I'm shy about people knowing things.
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I just kept it real and had the freedom to do what I want. It's not designed for any age group. It's not made for radio. There are no edits. The whole album contains explicit lyrics but that's because you need it.
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I am not so secretly a comedian. I write a lot of my own material if you've seen videos I've done. I write jokes.
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I never really wanted to be an actor. And that was the beginning of it, I began to write things down and eventually became a writer on a television show.
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I write the novels that are possible for me to write, not that ones I think will come across in a certain light.
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All I can do is leave it in God's hands and hope that my fans feel where I'm coming from.
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I have found men to be more kind than I expected, and less just.
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When Elvis was performing, you just tried to figure out a way to get there. I think he set all the records and anyone that has ever had the good fortune to see him, you know what it's like to try to get in to see Elvis. It was impossible, practically.
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I'm from the school of, 'if you want more, you have to require more from yourself.'
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Happiness is a matter of one's most ordinary and everyday mode of consciousness being busy and lively and unconcerned with self.
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I have a feeling I'm going to wake up one day and say 'I can't do dirty stuff anymore, I want to go all clean.' I'll do clean stuff too, I like to entertain people. Then they egged me on; we shot it at The Laugh Factory.
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Good friends always know when you need a cup of tea.
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You don't see a lot of great companies built on easy problems to solve.
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It isn't what you have, or who you are, or where you are, or what you are doing that makes you happy or unhappy. It is what you think about.
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A lot of times I watch sporting events, and there are things I want to say and things I see that don't get said or talked about.
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It is an illusion that youth is happy, an illusion of those who have lost it.
