W. Somerset Maugham Quotes
There in the mist, enormous, majestic, silent and terrible, stood the Great Wall of China. Solitarily, with the indifference of nature herself, it crept up the mountain side and slipped down to the depth of the valley.
Quotes to Explore
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I would wait in line for anything to do with 'Doctor Who.'
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I started auditioning but at times would feel depressed, as I would get shortlisted but never received the final call. Only when the commercials were released would I come to know that I was not selected.
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I don't think I have a signature.
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I grew up as a country boy.
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Maybe one day music will just be music, and there won't be these categories; it'll just be different shades of music.
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Most people work for the private sector, which cannot exist without profit.
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I have a baby that is 21 months old, and I watch Disney Junior with him. A lot of those shows are about pirates. Even the T-shirts and pajamas I buy for him have pirate themes like, 'Aye-aye, argh and mate.' But, I definitely grew up watching pirates.
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I'm more the sort of person who doesn't like hugging strangers because we don't know each other, so we shouldn't.
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Eventually, I grew out of my interest in motorcycles because they're quite dangerous. I don't ride them anymore. But I have this history.
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I think I'm a bit odd.
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A man is what he thinks about all day long.
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In the Seventies, a lot of executions via electric chair failed because of technical problems. Seed tells the true story of someone who survived and sought revenge. They buried him alive to make it seem he was dead.
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The Law of Triviality... briefly stated, it means that the time spent on any item of the agenda will be in inverse proportion to the sum involved.
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Every body about me seem'd happy but every body seem'd in a hurry to be happy somewhere else.
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The greatest things are accomplished by individual people, not by committees or companies.
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Hollywood would make a holocaust an animated comedy if people would pay to see it; they don't care... they just want your money.
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The stakes are high on every film now because there's the opening weekend. The first week is extremely crucial; increasingly, films are being judged in terms of opening day, opening weekend, then first week. People are going berserk promoting their films.
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It is a profound and necessary truth that the deep things in science are not found because they are useful: they are found because it was possible to find them.
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When somebody wants to interview me, I've always got something to say.
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I didn't know that '12 Years a Slave' was being filmed at the same time we were making 'The Retrieval.'
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You get in before sunrise and you get out after sunset and you go home, eat and collapse. While you're aware of the ratings, you aren't prepared for the response of the fans.
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Great occasions do not make heroes or cowards; they simply unveil them to the eyes of men. Silently and imperceptibly, as we wake or sleep, we grow strong or weak; and at last some crisis shows what we have become.
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There in the mist, enormous, majestic, silent and terrible, stood the Great Wall of China. Solitarily, with the indifference of nature herself, it crept up the mountain side and slipped down to the depth of the valley.
