W. Somerset Maugham Quotes
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When my lady and I sit down and watch TV, I find she gets annoyed at characters because they don't do what she would do in the situation. I'm always like, 'Well, she has to do that because that's what the story is.'
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The highest art is always the most religious, and the greatest artist is always a devout person.
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I don't really desire things. I prefer to spend my money on experiences, on meals or travel.
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I shall have a beautiful dream tonight. I also wish everyone to have a beautiful dream.
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People deal with models like they are children. They think they can pull one over on you. It's actually funny. I'm always like, I'm about to pull something on you, and you're so focused on thinking I'm dumb, you're not even going to know.
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You would not believe how much time people waste in a day. And how little time they put into things they genuinely love.
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It's very likely that I will finish my career as Swiss national coach.
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Lets be clear, Dolly Parton is a rapper. Somewhere before all the country, I don't know what happens up there in the mountains when you're growing up, but she has been spitting rhymes for a very long time - 50 years I'd say.
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Archery requires very sensitive muscles.
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I actually didn't like Jane Austen. I was more into the Brontes. They were so wild and passionate. I thought there was something a bit tame about Austen.
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Anyone in the comedy world knows that Horatio Sanz and Chris Parnell are two of the funniest guys around.
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I have to accept the fact that, no matter what I do, it's going to annoy someone.
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I did not want to go out at 5:30 in the morning with my stocking cap and my navy pea coat on and shoot lines and grades for the rest of my life.
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I'm a plethora of stolen jokes and kitschy references.
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In my opinion, the form of Government may be different in different countries, according to their circumstances, their wishes, their wants. England loves her Queen, and has full motive to do so.
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Improv as an actor makes you present in the moment. You listen, you're attentive. You're not acting so much as reacting, which is what you're doing in life all the time.
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Were women meant to do everything - work and have babies?
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It's very important not to lose your temper in a courtroom, or in anything else you're doing.
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Currently, differences remain in certain areas of the native API versus the BeOS API which make some things, even common things, not port correctly.
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I heard that someone asked Mother Teresa what was most important in her work. I thought she'd say the Rosary but she said, 'My nuns and I take very good care of ourselves so we can tend to the lepers and do whatever we need to assist.' If you're strong, or at least not hurting, you can inspire others.
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She who makes her husband and her children happy, who reclaims the one from vice, and trains up the other to virtue, is a much greater character than the ladies described in romance, whose whole occupation is to murder mankind with shafts from their quiver or their eyes.
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When I was writing pretty poor poetry, this girl with midnight black hair told me to go on.
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The greatest communicators have unknowingly used a story pattern. They not only use anecdotes effectively, but their communication followed a persuasive story pattern of tension and release. That tension and release is created by contrasting [what is] with what could be as a structural device.
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Writing is the supreme solace.
