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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We're in danger of breaking our army and preventing our national leaders from having the flexibility to confront not just Iraq and Afghanistan, but crises around the globe.
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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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The only thing I knew how to do was draw and play music.
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'No, but one can feel desperate at any age, don't you think? The young are eternally desperate,' he said frankly. 'And books, they offer one hope – that a whole universe might open up from between the covers, and falling into that universe, one is saved.
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Sometimes the characters I find the most compelling are in independent movies. With independent scripts people can take more challenges.
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We're half an hour from Toronto, which offers everything you could want from a city, and a couple of hours from beautiful vacation country. We have it all here, plus George W. Bush is not our president.
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The ultimate aim in life should be to fulfill to the utmost all that within our ability and to share that which is good and beautiful.
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The essence of the beautiful is unity in variety.
