W. Somerset Maugham Quotes
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It's such a weird thing: to sit and look at yourself is so distracting to the psyche. It would be like me standing in front of a mirror and looking at myself all day, trying to find a flaw.
Natasha Lyonne
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I keep endlessly busy with all kinds of stuff, mostly horses, cattle, livestock, things like that.
Sam Shepard
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I have always been interested in design, but in the beginning I didn't set out to make jewelry specifically.
Paloma Picasso
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Visual elements are, of course, the director's job.
Park Chan-wook
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I have always wanted to be liked and respected.
O. J. Simpson
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With so many of our fundamental rights hanging in the balance, it is not good enough to simply roll the dice, hoping a nominee has changed his past views. It's not good enough to think, 'This is the best we can expect from this president'.
Barbara Boxer
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When you lose touch with inner stillness, you lose touch with yourself.
Eckhart Tolle
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I write a chapter, then edit it and edit it and edit it and edit it. I don't think we mine creativity from within. It's bestowed from on high, from God.
Ann Voskamp
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In my next lifetime, I want to come back as a composer.
Bob Fosse
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Style is often something which locks the painter into the same vision, the same technique, the same formula during years and years, sometimes during one's whole lifetime.
Pablo Picasso
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Early on, after gay liberation, there was an almost Stalinist pressure from gay critics and even gay readers to write about positive role models. We were never supposed to write negative things about gays, or else we were seen as collaborating with the enemy.
Edmund White
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Self-doubt, which is the artist’s bitterest enemy.
W. Somerset Maugham