W. Somerset Maugham Quotes
It is not for nothing that artists have called their works the children of their brains and likened the pains of production to the pains of childbirth.
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At 21 years old, I could produce 400 people like that.
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The essence of the beautiful is unity in variety.
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My maternal grandmother, Penelope, was a very big figure in my life. She was a child of the Raj, born in India, a debutante who hobnobbed with royals, then married a Canadian, Bill Aitken, who became MP for Bury St Edmunds.
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I wanted to identify that the black experience is American experience.
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I was a very focused kid. I always had this crazy lifestyle... billions of jobs, two hours of gymnastics every day, handball, anything with a ball, really. I must have had ADHD or something. I was very energetic, and very small. I didn't start growing until the last year of high school.
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Gospel music rhythms are not African in origin, although I know that's what the jazz experts say.
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In human years I am 29. In actress years I'm the ripe, promising age of 18 to 35. That's how it works here in Hollyweird.
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By trade, I am a software programmer, so I never really had any experience with movies before. I started out with 'Paranormal Activity.'
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Open-source encyclopedias such as Wikipedia and search engines such as Google and Bing, which people can tap into anytime and anywhere via computers and smart phones, put a world of knowledge at our fingertips at a lower cost than ever before.
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It's very possible that advertising business models will simply never do as well on mobile devices as those oriented around transactions.
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If you tell the truth you get into trouble, and that's why politicians are extremely dull.
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I caught up on a lot of just domestic normal everyday stuff, and grew up a lot, and went to therapy, and did a lot of contemplating and figuring things out. I needed to just strip everything away and figure out who I am and get to know myself, as cheesy as that sounds.
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President Trump is right to welcome China's help in bringing North Korea's illicit nuclear program to heal, but he's also correct that if China doesn't go along, the U.S. can act alone.
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On the summit of Everest, I had a feeling of great satisfaction to be first there.
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I welcome the Democrats' ideas on Social Security. I think it is very important to make a bipartisan reform.
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I have a fat head – I get freaked-out looking at pictures of me.
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It's really hard not to fall into that trap of insecurity when you're a model. Beforehand, I never looked at myself in a huge monitor with 30 people around it every day.
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It's better to be skinny than to be fat.
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When I think of someone equating poems and machines, it makes me feel like that person would like poems to have a more obvious use value in society. They're not happy with poetry being this ephemeral, indefinable thing. They want it to be "real."
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I think it's very important to support those who can't help themselves - children, animals - and especially to do so in your own neighborhood.
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My mother had lots and lots of children who didn't survive.
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Again, with two small children it's incredibly hard to commit yourself to anything because you're just getting interested in it and someone comes along and goes I want Thomas The Tank Engine on, and screams the place down until you put it on.
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Today I feel more betrayed than perhaps ever before, that someone who had got to know my children, my staff and me, whom I let into my heart and told the truth, could then sacrifice the trust I placed in him and produce this terrible and unfair program.
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It is not for nothing that artists have called their works the children of their brains and likened the pains of production to the pains of childbirth.
