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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As a composer, I know that all sorts of sounds I hear are making their way into my brain and soul and later sneak into my music.
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I think Judy Blume, Stephen King, and Dean Koontz are the three authors responsible for my being where I am today. I owe them a lot.
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I wanted to be a scientist. My undergraduate degree is in biology, and I really did think I might go off and be some kind of a lady Darwin someplace. It turned out that I'm really awful at science and that I have no gift for actually doing science myself. But I'm very interested in others who practice science and in the stories of science.
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Sometimes I'm at home and I remember I'm supposed to do 100 push-ups and I don't.
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I know something about life and being a father and the worries and the fears of bringing up children.
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But what is criticism? Criticism is purely destructive; anyone can destroy, but not everyone can build up.
