George Bernard Shaw Quotes
Which painting in the National Gallery would I save if there was a fire? The one nearest the door of course.
George Bernard Shaw
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My nursery school did a production of 'The Three Little Pigs.' I played the third pig. When the wolf knocked on my door, I refused to get up and answer it because, to me, he was knocking the wrong way. I just lay there, snoring away on stage, fully immersed in my character. My dad turned to my mom and said: 'Dustin Hoffman.'
Zooey Deschanel
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Money is in some respects life's fire: it is a very excellent servant, but a terrible master.
P. T. Barnum
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Twitter, Facebook are so different from where I began. It's like a fire that takes off... I'm reading everybody's Twitter.
Randee Heller
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Well, one always has an instinct to be a painter, and I've done quite a lot of painting at one time or another, though not with any public success.
Quentin Blake
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All the sounds on 'Trapped in the Closet' - the knockin' on the door, when I grab the keys, when I walk down the stairs, the car horns - we sampled all of those things around my house.
R. Kelly
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It's hard to absorb and to allow all that attention and accolades for 'Rent' because the rest of the country doesn't know who we are. Once I walk out of the door of 'Rent,' and I'm on the subway, it doesn't matter. It's an exaggerated sense of fame.
Idina Menzel
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My grandmother had this high-tech security system - a rusty nail she used to lock the door.
Quincy Jones
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When I was a boy, my older brothers listened to Earth, Wind & Fire and Kool and the Gang. When I would try to get into their room, they would close the door and say, 'You can't hear that. It's not for a child!' Now, I can listen to it and enjoy it.
Omar Sy
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Hollywood's not knocking on our door. They're banging down the door with a sledgehammer.
Watkin Tudor Jones
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I was always interested in the arts as a child - drawing, painting, and piano - but acting became a favourite. I was a major theatre geek in high school - if I wasn't in the drama room at lunch rehearsing, I'd be in the art room finishing up some type of project.
Laura Mennell
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I'm the first Icelandic director who started working on U.S. movies. There are others behind me now, but it's like when Bjork opened the door for Icelandic musicians to work abroad. We're such a closed-off country, but Bjork broke the spell. And I'm glad it was a woman who did it. She showed us we could break this barrier.
Baltasar Kormakur
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Active management leads to lots of poor investor behavior. It sends people chasing after whoever has the hot hand at the moment.
Barry Ritholtz
