W. Somerset Maugham Quotes
It is well known that Beauty does not look with a good grace on the timid advances of Humour.
Quotes to Explore
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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've really been writing a lot of country songs. I used to get criticized for doing a 'Bump & Grind,' then turning around and doing a gospel song. But the truth is I'm glad I have a gift that allows me to switch lanes.
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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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What we have done with No Child Left Behind is squeeze the creativity out of the classroom because teachers have begun to just teaching to the test.
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This is the first convention of the space age - where a candidate can promise the moon and mean it.
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I have OCD, which is not fun. I have to be incredibly tidy and organized or it messes with my mind and switches off on me.
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The real Oxford is a close corporation of jolly, untidy, lazy, good-for-nothing humorous old men, who have been electing their own successors ever since the world began and who intend to go on with it. They'll squeeze under the Revolution or leap over it when the time comes, don't you worry.
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It is well known that Beauty does not look with a good grace on the timid advances of Humour.
