W. Somerset Maugham Quotes
But what is criticism? Criticism is purely destructive; anyone can destroy, but not everyone can build up.

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I would just die if some little girl saw me jump into bed with someone in the movies, and then she did it and got AIDS and died.
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More modern poetry is written than read.
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Comparing in the past years, Tamyra Gray and everyone else that didn't win but their careers are doing well.
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It's not any desire on my part to start playing dads, but it's a convention of drama. If you don't get the parts of young people going out to nightclubs, you have to play their fathers.
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I've never experienced chronic pain myself, but I have known many people over the years who have.
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I set myself one task, which was to get Labour on to the front foot, back in the game, making the weather on the economy, and that's going to take me a year.
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I don't know what the instinct is, to save every report card, every half-sentence scribbled note, but my mother did it pretty effectively, and I've done it to a fare-thee-well.
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You would never see me driving around in a sports car. I feel like you're so low and squish-able by transport trucks.
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Leaving Egypt and the people I loved so much, and the environment I liked, was definitely worth it, because I also have great love for medicine and science.
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All too often, the pitchmen are selling the notion that if you gain 'control' over your financial destiny - pick your own stocks and execute your own trades - it will be the first step on a short road to riches.
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I don't like baseball movies. I like movies about moral courage and people who are indomitable and courageous and right.
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I truly believe that you have to bring more content to the table to survive in radio than saying, 'There was AC/DC, and here's Journey,' because computers can do that.
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I started off in journalism 16 years ago in Stockholm, and I wrote for a few different publications for many years. I've also worked in advertising as a copywriter and creative director, but I changed it for architecture at 25 years old.
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I used to wear miniskirts with my GB top, and sparkly sandals, and the boys would be like: 'Oh my gosh, this girl cannot be serious.'
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I longed to be bright and most certainly never was. I was rather hopeless, I suspect.
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I've always been more of a camera hog than anything, and it's just another way to get it all out!
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Arithmetic is where the answer is right and everything is nice and you can look out of the window and see the blue sky - or the answer is wrong and you have to start over and try again and see how it comes out this time.
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Personally, becoming a mother has been such a rewarding and wonderful experience. However, at times it has also been a huge challenge. Even for me who has support at home that most mothers do not.
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On every show, there's some amount of work that is brought to some state of completion - or even finished - and then cut out of the movie.
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When you retire you want to get as far away as possible from the game for a couple of years.
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Today, what most people live in, or with, is the less-than-nuclear family. Working fathers are absent from home during most of the day, the children are schooled outside it, and practically all women who work for money must go outside to earn their living.
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I always love going to New York.
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I love to cook, it's one of my most favorite things in the world. That's why I stopped being a vegetarian - I didn't want to serve people things I hadn't tasted myself.
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But what is criticism? Criticism is purely destructive; anyone can destroy, but not everyone can build up.