W. Somerset Maugham Quotes
You're beginning to dislike me, aren't you? Well, dislike me. It doesn't make any difference to me now.
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I felt pressure to follow in Madonna's footsteps, and I didn't want to base my career on sex. So I began to change how I saw myself.
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Fame didn't happen to me in my 20s, it has been a gradual thing which probably makes it easier to deal with.
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There is always the fear of failure, and if you struggle, you become nervous, and that's when the underdogs have an opportunity to create a surprise.
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Of all work-schools, a good farm is probably the best for motor development.
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At some point, you're going to have to be willing to take a punch for your team. If your employees or your teammates will see that you're willing to do that, they are more likely to be loyal to you, and your team is more likely to function better.
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We're newspaper junkies; I can't imagine life without a newspaper.
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I go back and forth between indie and studio because I feel like it, not because I feel obligated to do one or the other.
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Someone once said that you can make the choice between getting old and getting creepy, and I think getting old is the way to go.
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If the Knesset is a temple, then Feiglin is the idol. A Knesset where Feiglin presides is an impure Knesset.
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You can't show up at the bedside and then turn on your skills. You have to keep your game sharp all the time.
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The interval between a cold expectation and a warm desire may be filled by expectations of varying degrees of warmth or by desires of varying degrees of coldness.
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I wanted to go to New York and be a stage actress, doing things like Chekhov. None of that happened, and then I went to L.A. and an agent said, 'I think you belong in commercials and TV.' So I did that and got some opportunities that I absolutely love.
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I've never thought in terms of 'men do this' and 'women do that.'
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To vilify a great man is the readiest way in which a little man can himself attain greatness.
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When we were filming 'Twilight,' we didn't expect anything. We were just filming a movie that we wanted the fans to enjoy. And then it kinda just blew into this whole other world.
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The trouble with most Englishwomen is that they will dress as if they had been a mouse in a previous incarnation they do not want to attract attention.
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If you have a surreal life like I do, you've got to have fun along the way.
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I always like to tell a story.
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I have not the slightest doubt that the economic measures and the Socialist measures which one will find in countries of Eastern Europe, will become increasingly powerful against the uncoordinated, planless society in which the West is living at present.
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A life-whether seamstress or poet, farmer or king-is measured not by length, but by the worth of its deeds, and the power of its dreams.
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The cliché of that sort of wasted, renegade, drugged-out musician of the '70s is kind of dead and gone now. And I suppose that a lot of people still keep relying on that, or some kind of image to perpetuate something that they think they're supposed to sound like. But that kind of takes you away from real inspiration and, you know, real artistic discovery of the individual.
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From beginning to end it's about keeping the energy and the intensity of the story and not doing too much and not doing too little, but just enough so people stay interested and stay involved in the characters.
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At the beginning, my ambition was never to break down doors. It was just to earn tuition for myself and work in an industry where women hadn't been allowed or invited. That's all I wanted to do, not thinking that I would make waves, change minds, excite people, incite people, turn on people, repulse people.
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You're beginning to dislike me, aren't you? Well, dislike me. It doesn't make any difference to me now.
