W. Somerset Maugham Quotes

Let us develop the resources of our land, call forth its powers, build up its institutions, promote all its great interests, and see whether we also, in our day and generation, may not perform something worthy to be remembered.

W. Somerset Maugham

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

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I love my body. I take good care of it.

Jimmy Graham

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I was an aid worker for a decade and then worked in the voluntary sector in the U.K. on U.K. child poverty and with the NSPCC and Save the Children. But I had worked for ten years with Oxfam.

Jo Cox

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Prose books are the show dogs I breed and sell to support my cat.

Robert Graves

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I look at directing as a sporting event. It's a race, a marathon. It's great when it clicks, which is why I push my crews so hard so we can excel.

Michael Bay

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The notion of artistic responsibility begs questions with no satisfactory conclusions, the most inevitable and ineffectual being that we should just keep thinking and talking about it, given that the alternative - a governmental body monitoring the movies we make and see - is unacceptable.

Steve Erickson

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The swimming community is really conservative. I don't know why, because we're in no clothing whatsoever.

Amanda Beard

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I've never made plans for more than a day ahead.

Mary MacLane

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Many things I might not write today because I no longer believe them, but I wouldn't change them, since I believed them at the time.

Jorge Amado

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When I was on 'Idol' and 17, everything was so new. Everyone is so nice and wants to see you succeed.

Jordin Sparks

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The real reason for coming to Montour is my love and respect for football.

Dick Butkus

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I was president of the show choir, I was kind of a geek, whatever.

Christine Woods

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I photographed all kinds of sports - Formula 1, Formula Atlantic. And anybody who knows me knows that, from the day they invented video cameras, I used to lug them around when you had to carry the pack here and the big camera here, plus the diaper bag and a baby and the purse or whatever.

Christie Brinkley

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