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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People just don't sit down and watch shows live anymore. They DVR it. They stream it; they watch it on Netflix or iTunes.
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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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I love making films, and as long as I love the subject, I just have a crazy amount of passion and energy for the project.
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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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I think, a lot of time, when I'm making art, I'm trying to get into a state of childlike play, where I'm not self-conscious; I'm not worried about what the outcome is going to be. I'm just having fun.
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50 years old is like springtime to me.
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Cooking at home is easier than cooking in the restaurant because you don't have to write a menu or try to please everybody.
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Theatrical is fantastic. I don't think anything will ever replace the big dark room, the screen and the popcorn. You can kind of do it in your home if you have a nice screen, but it's not the same thing.
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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.
