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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When you start writing songs on your own, there's no Bible, there's no one around you, so you're just writing, and you're left with, like, the dead space in your head to know if it's a good song or an interesting concept.
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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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Marriage has always been a state and local issue.
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I could go out to five parties a day if I wanted to. I don't. I have attachments to my wife and kids - and about 20 pieces of art.
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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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Nature also forges man, now a gold man, now a silver man, now a fig man, now a bean man.
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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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A lot of people go in and have to create their own characters, and they do fine with it.
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My first lead role was probably 'Party Girl' in 1994.
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I heard what was said of the universe, heard it and heard it of several thousand years; it is middling well as far as it goes - but is that all?
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Don't ask me, I don't know
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The only type of men Julia's mother had warned her about were wealthy industrialist who polluted the environment and took advantage of third-world countries. And Republilicans.
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I first visited the Philippines when I was 29. I thought I would feel at home there, but I felt more out of place than I did in the U.S. I discovered I was more American than Filipino. It was shattering because I never felt quite at home in the U.S., either.
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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.
