W. Somerset Maugham Quotes
Of course it was cause and effect, but in the necessity with which follows the other lay all tragedy of life.
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I'm a choreographer and I love watching 'The Bachelorette.'
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I'm quite an odd little part of the Venn diagram. I'm not a movie star and beautiful in that way. I do an odd thing that's funny and sad, and my face and my old body can take that.
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Look at the sky. We are not alone. The whole universe is friendly to us and conspires only to give the best to those who dream and work.
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France is a fantastic country. It's between the Anglo-Saxon and Latin cultures. We have some of the Anglo-Saxon rigor, and some of the Latin quirkiness.
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As happy a man as any in the world, for the whole world seems to smile upon me!
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One's own religion is after all a matter between oneself and one's Maker and no one else's.
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I have a deep and ongoing love of Iceland, particular the landscape, and when writing 'Burial Rites,' I was constantly trying to see whether I could distill its extraordinary and ineffable qualities into a kind of poetry.
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I remember growing up always loving the guitar. I used to love to watch the people play on the Country Western shows on TV. My folks told me that when I was just a toddler, I used to pretend I was playing a guitar on a toothpick.
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I think you don't do work for controversy alone, and whenever you do new work which people don't understand and they say it is done to create controversy.
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In the child, consciousness rises out of the depths of unconscious psychic life, at first like separate islands, which gradually unite to form a 'continent,' a continuous landmass of consciousness. Progressive mental development means, in effect, extension of consciousness.
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As a very young writer - kindergarten through about fifth grade - I most often wrote about black characters. My very early stories were science fiction and fantasy, with kids stowing away on spaceships and a girl named Tilly who was trying to get into the 'Guinness Book of World Records.'
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I think Ali was a fan of mine, even though he never said it. A lot of fighters thought I was pretty good. Nobody every really spoke different on that. But a lot of fighters thought I was good so.
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'Good English' is whatever educated people talk; so that what is good in one place or time would not be so in another.
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What I can tell you is that for Puerto Rico being such a small island, it has culturally impacted the entire world.
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You're always going to have people that are naysayers, that don't believe in your talent, that don't believe that you have any kind of longevity.
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My father played guitar, so I always wanted to play for that reason. But I think the biggest reason was just the '90s in general - growing up listening to the Smashing Pumpkins, Green Day and bands like that, and going to concerts and thinking it was the coolest thing in the world.
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If I had taken a doctoral degree, it would have stifled any writing capacity.
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I love Shakira - she is such a beautiful person. She does so many good things for the world on top of making good music. And she is an awesome mom. When you are Latina, it is all about family, and to see that she prioritizes family and her career at the same time is really nice.
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Triple tonguing? It was sort of invented. It wasn't in the script. It was something that I came up with.
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People who barely know the two of you assume you are close friends; people who know both of you intimately suspect you profoundly hate each other.
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I'm not that conservative. I do feel - I guess I'm more of a Democrat at heart, although I've never affiliated myself with a particular party.
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Differences in religious beliefs, politics, social status, and position are all secondary. When we look at someone with compassion, we are able to see beyond these secondary differences and connect to the primary essence that binds all humans together as one.
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As someone who lived under communism for most of my life I feel obliged to say that the biggest threat to freedom, democracy, the market economy and prosperity at the beginning of the 21st century is not communism or its various softer variants. Communism was replaced by the threat of ambitious environmentalism.
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Of course it was cause and effect, but in the necessity with which follows the other lay all tragedy of life.
