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What has influenced my life more than any other single thing has been my stammer. Had I not stammered I would probably... have gone to Cambridge as my brothers did, perhaps have become a don and every now and then published a dreary book about French literature. ↗

— W. Somerset Maugham

#any #become #been #book #brothers

I made up my mind long ago that life was too short to do anything for myself that I could pay others to do for me. ↗

— W. Somerset Maugham

#anything #could #i #life #long

To love someone is to see a miracle invisible to others. ↗

— Francois Mauriac

#love #miracle #others #see #someone

What about the hero of The House on the Strand? What did it mean when he dropped the telephone at the end of the book? I don't really know, but I rather think he was going to be paralysed for life. Don't you? ↗

— Daphne du Maurier

#book #did #dropped #end #going

The first nine albums there was never a Synthesiser, never any Orchestra. There was never any other player except us on the albums. ↗

— Brian May

#any #except #first #never #nine

The only thing experience teaches you is what you can't do. When you start, you think you can do anything. And then you start to get a little tired. ↗

— Elaine May

#experience #get #little #only #start

And it is crucial of course that chief constables are able to make decisions within their budgets about how they deploy their police officers to the greatest effect to ensure that they're able to do the job that the public want them to do. ↗

— Theresa May

#about #budgets #chief #course #crucial

It is quite widely known that I like shoes. This is not something that defines me as either a woman or a politician, but it has come to define me in the eyes of the newspapers. I wore a pair of leopard-print kitten heels to a Conservative Party Conference a few years ago and the papers have continued to focus on my feet ever since. ↗

— Theresa May

#come #conference #conservative #conservative party #continued

Now there is a growing feeling, it's something that David Cameron led on actually, he said this some time ago, that MPs should not be voting on their own pay. ↗

— Theresa May

#ago #cameron #david #feeling #growing

We are mandating forces to hold regular neighbourhood beat meetings. These meetings will give local people the chance to scrutinise the work of their local police. ↗

— Theresa May

#chance #forces #give #hold #local