W. Somerset Maugham Quotes
Now the answer ... is plain, but it is so unpalatable that most men will not face it. There is no reason for life and life has no meaning.
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Picking up a guitar brought a lot of balance into my life.
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My aunt is a newscaster in Lubbock, Texas, and she got a letter that said, 'Natalie Maines will be shot dead at their show in Dallas, Texas,' with the date of our concert. It was freaky to see that in writing.
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I realized that women's liberation is men's liberation, too.
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Every man prefers to look at a well-shaped woman instead of a rubber ball.
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When we read fiction, we want to get outside of ourselves and are able to see from a perspective we haven't seen through before. That can be very powerful.
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(A Foreign Secretary) is forever poised between the cliche and the indiscretion.
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Some of our best journalists take themselves even more seriously than the politicians they write about.
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In our experience, what we have found is the rare commodity is a good management team. And good management teams manage through good and bad cycles and manage to grow their business over a long period of time.
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People say I have my own Cinderella story, and in a way, I guess I do.
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I went to Berlin to study psychology but decided that I was more interested in music and started an R and B band.
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If you see a black family, it's looting, but if it's a white family they are looking for food.
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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 had rather have a plain, russet-coated Captain, that knows what he fights for, and loves what he knows, than that which you call a Gentle-man and is nothing else.
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Going back to my own past as a reader, I was a big, big reader of romances, particularly as a teenager, the age that my books are aimed at.
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I really don't know the secret to it, but I'd like to think my desirability is a combination of my personality, my image, and, most importantly, the kind of films I do.
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Before I go to bed, I brush my teeth and take off all my makeup. I like to use Neutrogena's makeup remover wipes.
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My characters are fictional. I get ideas from real people, sometimes, but my characters always exist only in my head.
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I'm pretty hard on myself in general.
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Modernism in other arts brought extreme difficulty. In poetry, the characteristic difficulty imported under the name of modernism was obscurity. But obscurity could just as easily be a quality of metrical as of free verse.
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I have long come to believe that, more than any other destruction, our word-recklessness is endangering the future of us all.
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I think art is more glorious than life but not more real.
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Engineering stimulates the mind. Kids get bored easily. They have got to get out and get their hands dirty: make things, dismantle things, fix things. When the schools can offer that, you'll have an engineer for life.
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I have never laid a brick in my life. But my people have laid more bricks than anybody else put together. Because I know how to pay.
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Now the answer ... is plain, but it is so unpalatable that most men will not face it. There is no reason for life and life has no meaning.
