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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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 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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We would like to make it quite clear that we are not migrants into the U.K. But we are the citizens of a state that belongs to the European Union who can take jobs anywhere freely within the European Union.
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It costs more money to put a person on death row than it does to lock them up for the rest of their lives because of attorney fees.
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When the band would leave the stage, and then the audience would just take over, and keep the groove goin'.
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If we would succeed in works of the imagination, we must offer a mild morality in the midst of rigid manners; but where the manners are corrupt, we must consistently hold up to view an austere morality.
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He who is conceived in a cage yearns for the cage.
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I went to art school in the days when it was what you did if you didn't want to be like everybody else. You wanted to be strange and different, and art school encouraged that. We hated the drama students - they were guys with pipes and cardigans.
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Disobedience, the rarest and most courageous of the virtues, is seldom distinguished from neglect, the laziest and commonest of the vices.
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But what is criticism? Criticism is purely destructive; anyone can destroy, but not everyone can build up.
