W. Somerset Maugham Quotes

It might be that to surrender to happiness was to accept defeat, but it was a defeat better than many victories.

W. Somerset Maugham

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• I never feel insecure when there are two female leads.

  

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• The Zionist movement gave political expression to our claim to the land of Israel. And in 1922, the League of Nations recognized the justice of this claim.

  

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• Highly functioning self-actualized people simply never imagine what it is that they don't wish to have as their reality.

  

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• I really believe you can predict when someone has a great attitude, a real well of talent.

  

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• One of the rules of the road is that if you want to create the sense of silence, it frequently has more pungency if you include the tiniest of sounds. By manipulating what you hear and how you hear it and what other things you don't hear, you can not only help tell the story, you can help the audience get into the mind of the character.

  

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• My job as a leader is to make sure everybody in the company has great opportunities, and that they feel they're having a meaningful impact and are contributing to the good of society. As a world, we're doing a better job of that. My goal is for Google to lead, not follow that.

  

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• Everything is creative. It's all relative to me. No matter what, you've gotta use your imagination, use your senses.

  

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• To make theater out of real life, you need to catch dialogue when it happens.

  

  D. A. Pennebaker
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• I was very excited to work with Nick Jarecki and, of course, to be in a film with Richard Gere and Susan Sarandon!

  

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• Writers have been in terrible situations and have yet managed to produce extraordinary work.

  

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• Buddhism talks about the possibility of transforming greed, hatred, and delusion. But sometimes need turns into greed.

  

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• I was a groupie for a year and followed a band. I dated the drummer of the band.

  

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• The electronics industry expanded rapidly and the seeds for the semiconductor and software revolution were planted. The postwar period also saw the suburbanization of America, the rise of the homeowner, the build-out of the interstate highway system, and the rise of automobile culture. Credit availability expanded dramatically.

  

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• Truth will always be truth, regardless of lack of understanding, disbelief or ignorance.

  

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• For guys who are into fitness, I think it's important to wear slim-fit stuff that is pretty tight so they can show off the bodies they have been working hard to have. Women are going to appreciate that.

  

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• Literature isn't a moral beauty contest. Its power arises from the authority and audacity with which the impersonation is pulled off; the belief it inspires is what counts.

  

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• My family is from Liverpool, so I have some of those vowel sounds, I've got the slack tone of someone from Birmingham, and then I was raised in Bedford, which is just north of London. So my accent, if it's possible, makes even less sense to a Brit than to an American.

  

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• There are no countries in the world less known by the British than those selfsame British Islands.

  

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• When you come to see a picture of mine, I want you to know that I'm not going to do anything that will make you uncomfortable. I want you to know that you won't be disappointed in me.

  

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• A revolution that leaves our conceptualization of self and world intact cannot bring other than temporary, superficial change. Only a much deeper revolution, a reconceiving of who we are, can reverse the crises of our age.

  

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  • Age
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• It might be that to surrender to happiness was to accept defeat, but it was a defeat better than many victories.

  

  W. Somerset Maugham