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W. Somerset Maugham Quotes

Excess on occasion is exhilarating. It prevents moderation from acquiring the deadening effect of a habit.

W. Somerset Maugham

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

Habit Moderation Excess Effect

I didn't have a particular persona. I'm not Alice Cooper, you know?

You Know Persona Particular Alice

If you make a feelgood film which is complete candyfloss, where everybody is good and everything is beautiful and hunky dory, it won't appeal to the audience.

Good Beautiful You Everything Film

Oh, I so don't care about the podium at the Oscars. I've stood at the podium at the Oscars and that's close enough. To be a presenter is as close as I need to be.

Care Enough Need Close Oscars Oh

My organization, my colleagues and I, are paid to run hotels in good times and fair times. We're professionals. That's what we do. I don't give a damn about the short-term market implications.

Good Good Times Organization Run

I long for a life that explodes with meaning and is filled with adventure, wonder, risk, and danger. I long for a faith that is gloriously treacherous. I want to be with Jesus, not knowing whether to cry or laugh.

Life Faith Adventure Laugh Meaning

I'm a traditional wife in every sense.

Wife Sense Traditional Every

Google is committed to open source and open APIs, and part of that is creating a partner-friendly place.

Place Creating Google Open Source

I really do love being outdoors - I mean, you'd never think it in my high heels and pencil skirt! But I really do miss the smell of hay and farms, and I like milking a cow.

Christina Hendricks

Love Outdoors Think You High Heels

Whoever becomes the head of the National Theater finds himself in a position like that of Nelson's Column - pigeons dump on you because you're there.

You Head Position Because Pigeons

But my deepest and most secret love belongs to the fair-haired and the blue-eyed, the bright children of life, the happy, the charming and the ordinary.

Life Love Children Happy Bright

It's not just the players, it's the culture. Sometimes it's the people around them; the people who are looking after them - the money they're given. Some of the families give up their jobs and live off their sons. That would never have happened 10 years ago.

Live Culture Money People Looking

I've gotten very alert not just to mixed metaphor but to any writing mistake.

Mistake Writing Just Metaphor Mixed

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