W. Somerset Maugham Quotes
Heaven knows what pains the author has been at, what bitter experience he has endured and what heartache suffered, to give some chance reader a few hours' relaxation or to while away the tedium of a journey.
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I have thought a sufficient measure of civilization is the influence of good women.
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I spend my own money, not other people's money.
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One of my favorite vacation memories was the Thai foot massage and Internet access salons in Bangkok, followed up by my testing cellphone coverage while wading in Provincetown Harbor on Cape Cod.
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All my books are optimistic!
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As Mayor, I will lead city government, businesses, and community groups to support innovative projects that will make San Francisco streets and public places vibrant and healthy.
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I don't even like to talk Lions too much just because the way our relationship ended.
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Look at market fluctuations as your friend rather than your enemy; profit from folly rather than participate in it.
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More and more, cultural groups are cross-pollinating, and we're getting much more interesting art as a result.
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Academic institutions in Britain have been infiltrated for years by dangerous theocratic fantasists. I should know: I was one of them.
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For many decades, Myanmar was on the receiving end of very public diplomatic scoldings, often backed up by sanctions.
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I figured out early on what I wanted to do.
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As an actor, I think you should always disappear a little. I act in order to lose myself.
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My wife watches me like a hawk.
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People ask what are my intentions with my films - my aims. It is a difficult and dangerous question, and I usually give an evasive answer: I try to tell the truth about the human condition, the truth as I see it. This answer seems to satisfy everyone, but it is not quite correct.
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I can't cook to save my life.
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Saving enough to retire has become impossible for most Americans.
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The prevailing system of management has crushed fun out of the workplace.
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I think foreign countries really do like it when American artists sing in their language. And when you go over there and say, 'Hi, how are you?' in their language, they love it. It makes them feel like you're doing it just for them. We in America take so much for granted.
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As opposed to putting too much confidence in myself, or in an image or a scene or a set of brushes, I really want to allow the oil paint to perform, to show me the things that it wants to do, beyond my imagination.
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When I liberate myself, I liberate others. If you don't speak out ain't nobody going to speak out for you.
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In my experience, and that of a lot of other women writers, all of the questions coming at them from interviewers tend to be about how lucky they are to be where they are - about luck and identity and how the idea struck them.
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I've learned from experience that the greater part of our happiness or misery depends on our dispositions and not on our circumstances.
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Characters in TV and theatre tend to experience a lot of conflict, so I push myself through sport to physical and emotional levels that hurt so I've some other reference for extreme experience that isn't me shouting at my girlfriend or my mum. It's a way of controlling the uncontrollable.
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Heaven knows what pains the author has been at, what bitter experience he has endured and what heartache suffered, to give some chance reader a few hours' relaxation or to while away the tedium of a journey.
