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 think the media can definitely show more diversity - different sizes of women, different colours of women, just more diversity in general.
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A belief is only a thought that you keep thinking. So as you keep thinking this thought, you keep vibrationally attracting relative to that thought. So you confirm your own beliefs again and again and again and again and again. That's why someone who believes in cancer can confirm that belief, or someone who believes in robbery can confirm that belief. So everything is a sort of confirmation of belief.
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One of the things about being on Twitter, for me, is mostly about just being on the pulse of what people are interested in, what people are doing and what people are looking for. I look at entertainment projects and storytelling, and I really try to think about what people want.
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The first time you hold your baby in your arms, I mean, a sense of strength and love washes over you. It washed over me and I never thought that possible.
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What I'm always trying to say to the consumer is: buy less, choose well, make it last.
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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.
