W. Somerset Maugham Quotes
I would sooner read a time-table or a catalogue than nothing at all. They are much more entertaining than half the novels that are written.
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I forced myself to think what is the new concept and it became clear to me that it was risk, not only in technology and ecology, but in life and employment, too.
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I've had quite a life, when you stop and think about it.
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I was a scapegoat. The media had to put responsibility on somebody, and I was chosen. They felt free to say that because someone was thin they were anorexic, which is ridiculous.
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When I was depressed, nobody expected anything of me, nor did I expect anything of myself. I was exempt from life's demands and risks. But if I were to find new life, who knows what daunting tasks I might be required to take on?
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Stillness of person and steadiness of features are signal marks of good breeding.
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The bottom line of Hollywood is money.
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That's one of the things I miss most about Australia - the countryside.
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There's a generative material relationship between the material and the image that comes up.
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I don't like denial. I don't like repression.
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Immigrants use the library often. A lot of them don't have access to books and Internet at home. They seem so disconnected to the city.
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I got involved with an acting school and studied for a couple years. They used to have improv exercises that you would work on and you would do improvs.
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The presidential candidates are offering prescriptions for everything from Iraq to healthcare, but listen closely. Their fixes are situational and incremental. Meanwhile, the underlying structural problems in American politics and government are systemic and prevent us from solving our most intractable challenges.
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What a blessed thing it is, that Nature, when she invented, manufactured, and patented her authors, contrived to make critics out of the chips that were left!
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The logical thing is to implement the Arab Defense Agreement.
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If I win the gold medal, I will be set for the rest of my life. The medal itself doesn't give you anything, but it makes you a marketable item. You take it and see what you can do.
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There's nothing wrong with being fired.
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Every Jew is my brother, and I will not succumb to hate speech.
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It is one thing to say that there is a constitutional right to keep a gun at home for protection. It is quite another to say there is a constitutional right to bring a hidden gun into a daycare center.
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The most exciting happiness is the happiness generated by forces beyond your control.
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I was brought up as a Catholic and went to church every week and took the sacraments. It never really touched the core of my being.
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I've seen up close what can happen when actors talk publicly about their relationships: their personal life gets dismantled. It's a show business game, and it's one game I won't play.
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Most designers don't dress in fashion. They dress in an anonymous way so that people are just judging their work.
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I didn't like my hair and makeup one time on a photo shoot, and my publicist told me, 'You should just be happy with it - they haven't had a black girl on the cover since forever.' She's no longer my publicist.
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I would sooner read a time-table or a catalogue than nothing at all. They are much more entertaining than half the novels that are written.
