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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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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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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Pollution is a serious one. Water pollution, air pollution, and then solid hazardous waste pollution. And then beyond that, we also have the resources issue. Not just water resources but other natural resources, the mining resources being consumed, and the destruction of our ecosystem.
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In a very real sense, people who have read good literature have lived more than people who cannot or will not read.
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Good courage in a bad affair is half of the evil overcome.
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My belief is whether I'm the starter, whether I'm the backup, I'm going to show up the same exact way. I'm going to prepare the same exact way, and I'll always be ready to go.
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One of the hard truths about the new digital world is that we have to be prepared to acknowledge when an experiment is not going to work, and to take action.
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Once the process [of conversion] is begun and continues...you are continually turning inward toward God and away from your own egocentricity...you have to see this selfish side of yourself in order to turn away from it. I measure God by everything I am not. I begin with that.
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First comes thought; then organization of that thought, into ideas and plans; then transformation of those plans into reality. The beginning, as you will observe, is in your imagination.
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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.
