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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I don't really approach a character as to whether or not it's good or bad. I just approach a character as to where it lives in me.
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If the novelist shares his or her problems with the characters, he or she is able to study his personal unconscious.
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He was somebody who made me think, I suppose, about the contemplative life. I've always been a city fellow, but I've often had vague thoughts about 'checking out' and perhaps going into a monastery and just seeing what it was like.
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I'm not gonna lie, I love Usain Bolt and Serena Williams. What I love about Serena is that she just gets on the floor and she dominates. She handles her business very well, I respect that.
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Writing never comes easy. The difference between Page 2 and Page Nothing is the difference between life and death.
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I wasn't a smart kid and I still don't think I'm too smart when it comes to book smart, but I was very good with what I knew and with my craft and I think that was my calling in life. But even today I never went to college.
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Sometimes when a character in a novel is difficult for me to enter, I sue something in myself or in my own life as a doorway into that character's mind and emotions.
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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.
