William Henry Maule Quotes
"As the crow flies" - a popular and picturesque expression to denote a straight line.
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You can't predict a show, that is the damndest thing, you can't predict if a show is going to work or not until it's on the air.
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When I was nine years old, my family lost our home, and the six of us moved into my grandparents' converted garage.
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Years ago, I noticed one thing about economics, and that is that economists didn't get anything right.
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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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As a working-class actor, leaving school with no qualifications, being a printer and then becoming an actor and then working with people who to a certain extent had had a leg up. I never had that advantage. It's less an artistic need to express myself and more a need to prove myself.
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I don't have an MBA, and I didn't go to Yale. I'm not an academic person and wasn't a good student. Instead, I've been taught by some of the most inspiring people in the world.
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The whole point of being alive is to evolve into the complete person you were intended to be.
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There are other writers who try for subtle and minimalists effects, but I don't travel in that tribe.
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Being an actor does make you aware of your age.
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I try to keep away from being big-headed. That's what causes people to lose the acting thing. They start being commercial, and then they stink for the rest of their lives.
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I hate going to bed. I read scripts, clean, listen to the radio - I've fallen asleep to 'This American Life' more times than I can count!
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In the '90s, I wouldn't have been a supermodel.
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One immutable trait of the gullible is that they are credulous to a fault. Though no-doubt well-meaning, the naive are Trump's base.
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I have the picture in my mind of how emotional I will feel if I win again.
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My diet is always extremely important to me. I've taken a new approach to eating in terms of my blood type. I really don't eat much chicken, sugar, salts, or beef. Just eating clean and feeling so much better.
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Women's behavior in handling beauty, even before feminism, was to deny they had any. Don't hate me because I'm beautiful.
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I've done classical theaters. I played Hamlet myself and Romeo.
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With acting, you have to depend on somebody else to decide if you are allowed to work. You can spend weeks and months when you are not acting at all.
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Our ideas are for the most part like bad sixpences, and we spend our lives trying to pass them on one another.
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The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation. What is called resignation is confirmed desperation.
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I've never sat there and plotted out how I was going to become successful or famous.
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I have personally seen Ted Cruz stand up and fight on the issues that matter the most to conservatives, even when it wasn't popular in Congress.
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If one has not influence to stem the torrent of popular delusion he is reduced to the melancholy part of a spectator in the midst of the ruin.
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"As the crow flies" - a popular and picturesque expression to denote a straight line.
