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W. Somerset Maugham Quotes

We are not the same persons this year as last; nor are those we love. It is a happy chance if we, changing, continue to love a changed person.

W. Somerset Maugham

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: playwright
Nationality: british
Birth: January 25, 1874 - December 16, 1965

Topics

Love Anniversary Happy Chance Year

I admire those women who really knew who they were and didn't apologize for it. Katharine Hepburn? She was ahead of her time.

Women Time Admire Ahead She Her

Acting is an imaginative leap, really, isn't it? And imaginations prosper in different circumstances.

Acting Circumstances Leap Different

Small companies tend to go out of business. Large ones don't.

Business Small Go Out Large Tend

Everything in life is gray, you know.

Jeannette Walls

Life You Know Gray Everything

The illiterate of the future will not be the person who cannot read. It will be the person who does not know how to learn.

Education Future Learn Person Know

Ultimately, it's a pretty confusing moment.

Moment Pretty Confusing Ultimately

I've always remembered something Sanford Meisner, my acting teacher, told us. When you create a character, it's like making a chair, except instead of making someting out of wood, you make it out of yourself. That's the actor's craft - using yourself to create a character.

Character Teacher Yourself Chair You

Cruelty is one fashion statement we can all do without.

Fashion Cruelty Without Statement

When kids like Steven Spielberg were eight and nine and 10, they had little cameras, and that's all they wanted to do. When I was 10, I was in my attic pretending to host my own variety show. Spielberg wasn't. That's why he's a film director, and I'm doing what I'm doing.

Doing Why My Own Director Pretending

I have always been a hard worker. I had to make some adjustments to find a way to make my delivery crisper and more repeatable.

Find Way More Hard Always Delivery

As soon as television became the only secondary way in which films were watched, films had to adhere to a pretty linear system, whereby you can drift off for ten minutes and go and answer the phone and not really lose your place.

Christopher Nolan

You Lose Television Phone Place Go

The world today doesn't please me.

Brigitte Bardot

Today Me World Please

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