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.
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I've always - honestly - never thought of myself as an independent director.
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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.
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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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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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The Hungarian interest is that, if necessary, we should make loan agreements with the IMF on a regular basis.
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Tanning is tricky, because a lot of people just look orange.
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From 1999 through 2001, I was an editor at a now-defunct magazine about the media industry called 'Brill's Content' that eventually merged with a now-defunct website about the media industry called Inside.com.
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It is cruel to discover one's mediocrity only when it is too late.
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It's harder for me to work on a Forrest Gump kind of movie, where everything is invisible.
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People have to snatch at happiness when they can, in this world. It is always easier to lose than to find.
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Contrary to what might be expected, I look back on experiences that at the time seemed especially desolating and painful with particular satisfaction. Indeed, I can say with complete truthfulness that everything I have learned in my seventy-five years in this world, everything that has truly enhanced and enlightened my existence, has been through affliction and not through happiness, whether pursued or attained
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The weather in England can really darken your spirits.
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I have achieved what I set out to achieve when I took over the leadership. The Greens have gone from strength to strength with solid election results and a growing, engaged party membership.
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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.
