W. Somerset Maugham Quotes
Quotes to Explore
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Sean Connery wasn't the Scottish James Bond and Daniel Craig wasn't the blue-eyed James Bond. So if I played him, I don't want to be called the black James Bond.
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Give me a smart idiot over a stupid genius any day.
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I don't take success and failure seriously. The only thing I do seriously is march forward. If I fall, I get up and march again.
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We all look at ourselves in the mirror and think, 'Am I good?'
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We are not going to toy with our religion or any other. Nor are we going to barter. We are here to extend our hands to build peace and harmony.
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The first movie my dad ever showed me was 'Predator' – I was five. And I think the second one was 'Jaws.'
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Due to my hectic work schedule, I hardly have enough sleep, and my skin tends to look dull. Facial masks are my savior, as it helps to brighten and hydrate my skin.
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I have no problem with violence, I have no problem playing horrible people.
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Any conception of human well-being you could plausibly have, the Taliban patently fails to maximize it.
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Being a woman has only bothered me in climbing trees.
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Kenya doesn't have much of an infrastructure for hosting a film.
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I like nicotine because it excites my brain and helps me work.
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I like to stand right in front of my opponent. I think it makes for an exciting fight.
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I could pose in fashion commercials as a high society star but politics is a new way of life.
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Baking is my pastime. I just love creating things. But it's not what I want to do for a living. Acting is what I want to do.
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If you want to talk about cultural appropriation, we have to go back to the Greeks.
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I think the thing that I really wanna bring is that I have a full world of music and imagination and ideas that I want to create as an artist, and that's my main thing that I want to do.
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There's an unintended consequence when it comes to drone attacks in Yemen. Yeah, you take out the al-Qaida stronghold, but you also wipe out the other half of the block. That makes Yemenis against the United States for the rest of their lives and all their descendants.
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Endurance is the free companion of Sorrow, and Patience her master.
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There are lesser people not for what they are, but for why they are.
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I love performing in any medium, and more the opportunities you have to vary things, the more you learn.
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We learn resignation not by our own suffering, but by the suffering of others.
