W. Somerset Maugham Quotes
It is well known that Beauty does not look with a good grace on the timid advances of Humour.
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I don't think many of us launched ourselves into the world of writing books fully formed.
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If you interact with anyone, ultimately, all people are the same. However they're dressed, when you're in the house with a person, they're going to be a regular human being.
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Chess was natural for me; I was extremely successful.
Garry Kasparov -
But I also think that the more you reason collectively about what the project should be at the beginning of the process, the more you can improvise later.
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I think it's time we all agree that gender stereotypes are simply the confabulation of our own mind.
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When I was twelve, I started reading Eudora Welty, Thomas Wolfe, Flannery O'Connor, James Agee, and - do we dare breathe the name - William Faulkner.
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Giving people some kind of control over what they do is important. Human beings don't do their best work under conditions of control.
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When I'm in 'Man vs. Wild' mode, it's not pleasure. Every sensor is firing and I'm on reserve power all the time and I'm digging deep - and that's the magic of it as well, and that's raw and it's great.
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My sister is dyslexic, and she's so smart, so intelligent in all of the ways that matter.
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Reason cannot calm the storm of emotion, and emotion usually wins, until it settles down and allows reason to rise again and apologize on behalf of it.
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It's just different in the music world. You come more with an entourage.
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Music has always been an important thing to me in my life and understand I've worked in the music business.
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Before 'Lucky Louie,' nobody would ever cast me to play a mom or a wife; nobody ever saw me in that role, which is weird, since that's who I really am.
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The natural sweetness of leeks, with their soft, oniony aroma, makes them the perfect winter comfort food.
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The days of the painter at the Bauhaus appear to be truly over. They are estranged from the actual core of present activities, and their influence is more restricting than inspiring.
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The importance of the arts to the societies in which they thrive is well documented.
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I love punching the ceiling with my fists when I'm lost or I can't find a parking space.
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With a genre like film noir, everyone has these assumptions and expectations. And once all of those things are in place, that's when you can really start to twist it about and mess around with it.
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As you get a little older, you understand what you need to do to be good, regardless of who likes it or doesn't like it. It's my career. And at the end of the day, it's going to be how I think I can do it best.
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The one benefit of having done all kinds of movies as an actor is, you learn the pros and cons of being tempted to do a really big movie because it costs a lot of money.
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We need to ask who is the enemy, and the enemies are terrorists.
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In response to a question about what 'keeps her up at night', I worry about the fact that in K-12 education I can look at your zip code and tell whether or not you're going to get a good education.
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As a captain, I think it's important that the players really know who you are and what you stand for, what your beliefs are, and to be consistent in those if things are going good or things are going bad.
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It is well known that Beauty does not look with a good grace on the timid advances of Humour.
