W. Somerset Maugham Quotes
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I wouldn't be where I am without Evolve.
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My style of singing is very much Latin jazz meets Latin and a little bit of rhythm and blues. When I do ballads, my fans love it. They want to listen to my classics. They want to party.
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There can be no great courage where there is no confidence or assurance, and half the battle is in the conviction that we can do what we undertake.
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I gave up on the delusion that these players enjoy soccer as much as I do, that they play for the love of the game.
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I've fought with everyone . And now I have become so headstrong that I only do what I want.
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Americans worship creativity the way they worship physical beauty - as a way of enjoying elitism without guilt: God did it.
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I used to watch movies - silent movies - and stock companies and theater whenever I could.
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I personally think Beyonce's a strong feminist. What she's done in music and for women is unprecedented. I love her. She definitely makes me feel like more of a woman.
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Fashion breaks my heart.
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I can't think of anything worse than trying to schmooze someone with the idea that you're an actor.
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In the best material, you always should be able to somehow make a case for a story to be transposed to any other time.
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Time can be an ally or an enemy. What it becomes depends entirely upon you, your goals, and your determination to use every available minute.
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I have had someone ask me to sign their 'Team Taylor' panties. She wasn't a teenager. She was in her 40s.
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I'm not the girl next door.
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Both spiritual companionship and spiritual motherliness are not limited to the physical wife and mother relationship, but they extend to all people with whom woman comes into contact.
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French fries. I love them. Some people are chocolate and sweets people. I love French fries. That and caviar.
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I always have the impression that I write the same book.
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Different directors offer you different things, and it's not necessarily the most obvious things.
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And a third thing is the understanding of the Church as a community, a communion which is just a hierarchy but the people of God, whose servants are the priests and bishops.
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Dancing to a great song with great friends and lots of laughter makes me come alive.
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But life is sweet, though all that makes it sweetLessen like sound of friends’ departing feet;And Death is beautiful as feet of friendComing with welcome at our journey’s end.For me Fate gave, whate’er she else denied,A nature sloping to the southern side;I thank her for it, though when clouds ariseSuch natures double-darken gloomy skies.
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We believe we will be made whole by our accomplishments, our possessions, or our social status. It's written in the fabric of our DNA that life used to be beautiful and now it isn't, and if only this and only that, it would be beautiful again.
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All flowers are beautiful in their own way, and that's like women too.
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The essence of the beautiful is unity in variety.
