W. Somerset Maugham Quotes
D'you call life a bad job? Never! We've had our ups and downs, we've had our struggles, we've always been poor, but it's been worth it, ay, worth it a hundred times I say when I look round at my children.
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Journalists write because they have nothing to say, and have something to say because they write.
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Only when you are aware of the uniqueness of everyone's individual body will you begin to have a sense of your own self-worth.
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For me, cerebral palsy wasn't the biggest deal, because I always had it. You know, you always work with what you got.
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You've really got to start hitting the books because it's no joke out here.
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I was a very focused kid. I always had this crazy lifestyle... billions of jobs, two hours of gymnastics every day, handball, anything with a ball, really. I must have had ADHD or something. I was very energetic, and very small. I didn't start growing until the last year of high school.
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It didn't scare me to be vulnerable because I think that's when you get something great.
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I am very lucky I got fans, and I interact with them personally. I know that they have poured their love on me unconditionally, and all I can do is work hard and be kind to them.
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Nobody really believes in equality anyway.
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By keeping the annuities, we could build up a national industry every years as big as the Shannon Scheme.
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We are born believing. A man bears beliefs as a tree bears apples.
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You are not alone with a guy until you are a proper age. You don't go to certain levels with men until you are married or you have a certain relationship.
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You get caught up in hitting home runs and seeing how far you can hit them, and your swing changes.
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'Sesame Street's' genius lies in finding gentle ways to talk about hard things - death, divorce, danger - in terms that children understand and accept.
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When you're actually making the film, you're constantly battling to maintain its integrity.
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When you grow up in the country in France, you have small horizons.
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Alfred Nobel stipulated that no distinction of race or colour will determine who received of his generosity.
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As an HR Manager, you don't have to build a top-down perks program. You decide how much you want to invest in your employees, and then you give your employees the control to build a custom perk package for themselves.
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When the movie starts playing on TV and DVD, that's when you really see what the movie is.
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Of course, New Brighton is very shabby, very rundown, but people still go there because it's the place where you take kids out on a Sunday.
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I have a hard time with people who say they write for children but they don't really like children. I love children. I love talking with them.
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At The Gong Show... I was nervous, I was afraid, but I went out there and auditioned and they liked me. They asked me to come back and tape the show.
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Sometimes life has a way of putting us on our backs to force us to look up.
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D'you call life a bad job? Never! We've had our ups and downs, we've had our struggles, we've always been poor, but it's been worth it, ay, worth it a hundred times I say when I look round at my children.
