W. Somerset Maugham Quotes
A man marries to have a home, but also because he doesn't want to be bothered with sex and all that sort of thing.
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Unfortunately, the people of Louisiana are not racists.
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When I was about four, people used to walk up to my mom and say I should be in commercials.
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I feel sorry for the man who marries you... because everyone thinks you're sweet and you're not.
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I still remember my first Giacometti exhibition, and going back to the museum every day, whenever I could, to look again and again at these long, thin stick figures, so beautiful, so graceful. That, I think, was the moment I became really obsessed by art.
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Turquoise is my birthstone; I'm a Sagittarius.
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I was mostly an indoor girl at university. Where other students did drama or music or sport alongside their degrees, I wrote. I used to work on essays and classwork during the day and 'The Bone Season' in the evenings.
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Whenever I'm in Des Moines, I always make a trip to Manhattan Deli for a sandwich. I spent a lot of time there when I was going to college at Drake, so it's usually my one 'go-to' food stop when I'm in town.
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I would dodge, not lie, in the national interest.
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We've always made progress by understanding what the next great challenge is.
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I try to stay as naive as possible so I'm not as aware as much of the risks.
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I like Modest Mouse. I'm our biggest fan. And enemy. I won't waste people's time by putting out a Modest Mouse record just because. That's fair, right?
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Growing up, you always want to hang with your dad - go fishing or whatever. But my dad was always working, so we never really had time for that. I think I kind of learned to accept it.
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Son, give 'em a good show, and always travel first class.
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You don't go out and play Beethoven's 'Opus 111' without having rethought about it every time you play.
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High school dropouts are forfeiting their opportunity to pursue the American Dream.
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Having refuted, then, as well as we could, every notion which might suggest that we were to think of God as in any degree corporeal, we go on to say that, according to strict truth, God is incomprehensible, and incapable of being measured.
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A play should give you something to think about. When I see a play and understand it the first time, then I know it can't be much good.
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My parents are from Manchester but I was brought up in London, Camden Town.
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Remember that whatever may be said by a lady or her friends, it is not part of conduct of a gallant or generous man to take up arms against a woman.
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I'm going to write a book someday and the title will be I'm an Ass, You're an Ass. That's the most liberating, wonderful thing in the world, when you openly admit you're an ass. It's wonderful. When people tell me, 'You're wrong' I say, 'What can you expect of an ass?'
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Sincerity and honesty carry one through many difficulties which all the arts he can invent would never help him through.
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Opinions are a private matter. The public has an interest only in judgments.
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A man marries to have a home, but also because he doesn't want to be bothered with sex and all that sort of thing.
