W. Somerset Maugham Quotes
Women are often under the impression that men are much more madly in love with them than they really are.
Quotes to Explore
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Most people work for the private sector, which cannot exist without profit.
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I was into punk rock back when I was in high school. I used to go around to dive venues and take photographs. But now it's been just much more about the country stuff and soulful folk.
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Some of our best journalists take themselves even more seriously than the politicians they write about.
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It's an honor to live on a legacy, getting to do what we love to do and try to be the best musicians that we can possibly be.
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From the RBI side, the fake Indian currency note is an important issue that needed to be addressed. The other collateral benefits from this, in terms of greater accountability, better public finance, more transparency, are, by definition, areas that take time to fully play out.
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People who matter are most aware that everyone else does too.
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Don't sell credits; don't sell walk-on roles... If people want to back you, they'll back you. But if you have to entice people will walk-on roles and crazy credits, you're undermining yourself.
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I'm under five feet; I'm very small, 4'11 1/2.
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What you look like, whether you're Brad Pitt or Charles Laughton, is significant for actors.
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The gamble of literature is that I make the best work I can; the most truthful, the most representative of how I see things. I try and do that, and then I put it out there and say to you, 'What do you think?' I hope that you think well of it, obviously.
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Keeping your space clean is as much a part of the end result as the dish being tasty.
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I've had much nastier things said about me in the British press than in the Bosnian press.
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We would like a stable policy framework, and whatever incentives and tax structures are there should be made known to investors upfront. There should be credibility, clarity and continuity in both policy formulation and its implementation.
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The thing that's protected me creatively is that the movies have made profits.
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Government is the ultimate monopoly. And monopolies, as any economist will tell you, often breed complacency and a lack of innovation.
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I think eating in itself is the act of great sensuality, so all you have to do is point the camera in the right direction.
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Originally, when I wrote the song 'The Sensual World' I had used text from the end of 'Ulysses.' When I asked for permission to use the text, I was refused, which was disappointing.
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Man, Farmville is so huge! Do you realize it's the second-biggest browser-based social-networking-centered farming game in the world?
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From nine years old, I lived with fear. I saw our neighbours disappearing. I was scared that I would come home from school and my parents would not be there.
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Elite warriors, when they accomplish their mission, they celebrate.
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I wanted to define the vocabulary of a wedding both visually and intellectually. The book is about more than weddings or wedding dresses. It's a metaphor for women's lives, their creativity.
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It's mostly women who I get really weird fan mail from.
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The good man, though a slave, is free; the wicked, though he reigns, is a slave, and not the slave of a single man, but- what is worse - the slave of as many masters as he has vices.
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Women are often under the impression that men are much more madly in love with them than they really are.
