W. Somerset Maugham Quotes
She gathered herself together. No one could describe the scorn of her expression or the contemptuous hatred she put into her answer. 'You men! You filthy dirty pigs! You're all the same, all of you. Pigs! Pigs!'
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I'm not sure if being known opened or closed doors for me.
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A mortgage transaction is very complex, very complicated, and very localized - the rules are not just by state but by county, sometimes even by municipality.
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Newt Gingrich seldom misses a chance to note that he is a historian.
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By the usual reckoning, the worst books make the best films.
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Brittany Murphy... who knows if she's going to be around. Kirsten Dunst, I think she's really boring. Reese Witherspoon? She can open a movie.
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The only reality show that I do tune in for is 'Shark Tank.'
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I don't want to be involved in endless media gossip.
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My mum's really short so she always wears really tall heels, and I used to steal them and now it's just a part of my everyday life.
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It's important for people to understand where things come or what they represent.
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If there was no Black Sabbath, I could still possibly be a morning newspaper delivery boy. No fun.
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'Miele' is a code name for a girl who has a double life.
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Life in the Middle East is quite different from other places.
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Stay calm and aggressive.
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When I go home, I play with my baby dolls and strollers and diaper bags, and play with my sisters.
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There's very few dork movies made by dorks.
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Of course, in the United States, which at the time was a very young country, there were also class distinctions. They weren't as pronounced, but they quickly evolved as well.
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Work is that which you dislike doing but perform for the sake of external rewards. At school, this takes the form of grades. In society, it means money, status, privilege.
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Understand, I had absolutely no interest in writing; I wanted to be a Writer.
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In a novel, I think you have a contract with the reader to make the character representative - of a moment in history, a social class... for instance, I wanted to make the boy in 'A Boy's Own Story' more like other gay men of my generation in their youth and not like me.
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My first break was in a Hong Kong movie that I shot in China - I was going out there and working as a western stunt man, if you like, but at the same time in England I was working in daytime soap stuff. Eventually I put the two together.
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I think often, and never without a certain fear of Nessim's love for Justine. - It coloured his unhappiness with a kind of ecstasy - Yet one touch of humour would have saved him from such dreadful comprehensive suffering.
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Peace cannot be kept by force; it can only be achieved by understanding.
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She gathered herself together. No one could describe the scorn of her expression or the contemptuous hatred she put into her answer. 'You men! You filthy dirty pigs! You're all the same, all of you. Pigs! Pigs!'
