W. Somerset Maugham Quotes
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Slack users I know, including me, love many things about the service. As the company likes to brag, it's fast, it's transparent, and it's great for brainstorming.
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You're not a historian, but most historians will tell you that they make very discrete judgment as to what facts to omit in order to make their book into some shape, some length that can be managed.
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I love to have no plans. It is amazing where your day can turn when you have no plans: meeting people or just going to a little pub on the side of the road.
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There was a time when no difficult subjects were ever aired in the 'Lady', and sadly, life isn't like that.
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'Lovejoy' has a special place in my heart because it was through my efforts that the series first came to the screen.
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The happiest I have ever been is in the life that I led with my wife and kids.
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Music was a big outlet for me. Being able to play an instrument and sing was definitely a good way for me to escape things I was dealing with: family issues, growing up, being a kid and not knowing what I wanted to do with my life.
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When I was a child I asked my mother what homosexuality was about and she said - and this was 100 years ago in Germany and she was very open-minded - 'It's like hair color. It's nothing. Some people are blond and some people have dark hair. It's not a subject.' This was a very healthy attitude.
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A rap dude has his rap persona, his hyper version of himself. Do you know Method Man's real name? Or Elton John, Marylin Monroe? You make up this character. That's kind of what we have done with Die Antwoord, playing with characters.
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Poland is much more advanced than Romania in structural reforms.
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I will always think of myself as that girl that is 22 starting and really excited about everything and wanting to be amazing at everything. I always wanted to be the best stylist. That was it.
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Actors are a race.
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I'd long wanted to write about that moment when a woman steps off the career track to have her first child. For me, that was a scary time.
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The world would be happier if men had the same capacity to be silent that they have to speak.
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I think authors can get into trouble viewing the subject matter as their turf.
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I don't care about how much other actors get.
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I love the secrecy of writing fiction. When I write a novel, I don't tell anybody what I'm doing. I'm living in my private world. And it's a great sensation.
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One of the great things about Sydney is that it has a great acceptance of everyone and everything. It's an incredibly tolerant city, a city with a huge multicultural basis.
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When I was in school in the Art Institute, we had several problems during the course of the time we were taking ceramic classes where we had to do a sculptural piece. And when I say a sculptural piece, it's nothing like what we conceive of now as a sculptural piece.
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Art never improves, but... the material of art is never quite the same.
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Sentimentality is the only sentiment that rubs you the wrong way.
