George Bernard Shaw Quotes
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I really like performing for people.
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I grew up in different parts of Africa. I grew up in Mozambique and places like that. I've been in South Africa many times.
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When you do scenes that are just exposition, they feel false.
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When I was young I didn't care about education, just money and box office.
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Excessive speed and quantity are, like chattiness and digression, besetting sins of cyber-assisted authorship.
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My kids like their eggs with catsup. I like mine with salsa.
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Having been raised by actors who love moral ambiguity and flawed protagonists, I feel like it's sort of in the blood to want to take it on.
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My arm bones looked like chicken bones.
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The whole experience on 'Grown Ups 2' was like going to adult summer camp.
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I like music a lot.
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I've put up with more humiliation than I care to remember.
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I couldn't be a royal. It's like living in a supersonic goldfish bowl.
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Married people from my generation are like an endangered species!
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History laughs at both the victim and the aggressor.
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I read Carver. Julio Cortazar. Amis's essays. Baldwin. Lorrie Moore. Capote. Saramago. Larkin. Wodehouse. Anything, anything at all, that doesn't sound like me.
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At least international media can see how I am trying to change the typical orthodox mindset of people who don't want to come out of their shells of false beliefs and old practices.
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I love music and I love musicians and when I hear something that's great, I always say it's like you go to a movie and you can't wait to tell your friends about it.
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Yes, I believe the will is very important. It's how I have succeeded in life.
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Like the wind that carries one ship east and another west, the law of autosuggestion will lift you up or pull you down according to the way that you set your sails of thought.
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I get upset about what is taken as great literature and what is cute and exotic.
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I'm a musician with a very unique mental state, I suppose. I'm agoraphobic. I'm scared to leave my house. I haven't been alone in, like, two years. I'm either with my boyfriend or my assistant, my manager or my tour manager. I won't go anywhere by myself; I'm too terrified.
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I work on words quite separately to music. They're both ongoing, and I don't ever feel like I'm working in a cycle in that respect, because it's every day anyway, no matter what I'm doing. Then I get to a point when I've collected together enough words that seem like they want to be songs rather than poems, or sometimes not.
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Industrial Society is not merely one containing 'industry,' large-scale productive units capable of supplying man's material needs in a way which can eliminate poverty: it is also a society in which knowledge plays a part wholly different from that which it played in earlier social forms, and which indeed possesses a quite different type of knowledge. Modern science is inconceivable outside an industrial society: but modern industrial society is equally inconceivable without modern science. Roughly, science is the mode of cognition of industrial society, and industry is the ecology of science.
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Take care to get what you like or you will be forced to like what you get.
