George Bernard Shaw Quotes
My method is to take the utmost trouble to find the right thing to say, and then to say it with the utmost levity.
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If there was less sympathy in the world, there would be less trouble in the world.
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I love writing journalism because it's all over in two hours and comes straight off the top of the head. Writing novels is soooooo much harder. It's the hardest thing I've ever done.
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I had no trouble going from radio to TV - I just thought of TV as radio with pictures.
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Let me tell you something - being thought of as a beautiful woman has spared me nothing in life. No heartache, no trouble. Love has been difficult. Beauty is essentially meaningless and it is always transitory.
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The trouble with young writers is that they are all in their sixties.
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One thing I hear a lot is, 'Dude, my mom loves your record,' or 'I got it for my dad for Christmas.' I'm essentially doing dad rock. Which is great, because I love Steely Dan, you know? Nothing wrong with dad rock!
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I get so excited when a song I wrote that's very personal to me goes No. 1 and I look down and see people singing the words back to me.
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No one put pressure on me to go to the Olympics; once I'd got the qualifying mark, I just couldn't say no.
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I believe that first impressions are very important.
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My mom is awesome. She's really young. My mom is 40, and she raised me listening to Nirvana and Courtney Love and Coldplay, Gin Blossoms, The Cranberries, and stuff. Like, my early, early memories are of being a little kid running around in floral skirts and Doc Martens when I was, like, three.
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I think every high school student who was alert during the early '60s got very embittered by the slow progress and the violence surrounding the Civil Rights Movement.
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Lately I've been feeling like 50 percent of the great content I read comes from Twitter conversations.
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I did that Grammys thing - I did a little freeform poem.
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Even though 'Vicky Donor' was a huge success, I have had one or two films which have not done well, but that's all right.
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We have points in common with the FDP, particularly when it comes to tax.
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I love Jet Li, but he looks very Chinese, and his English is Chinese-accented. He wouldn't have been the right guy to play a Japanese-American.
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I was always the smallest role in community theater and school plays. I always had two lines - I was the kid that came on stage and said one thing and then left, and that was my part for the play.
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The thing that intrigued me about 'Breaking Bad' from day one was the idea of taking a character and transforming him.
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I had a lot of fun working with John Candy. We had a pretty good rapport.
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Do you ever think about when you outta here? Record deal and video, outta here!? Mercedes Benz and Range Rover, outta here!?
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My method is to take the utmost trouble to find the right thing to say, and then to say it with the utmost levity.
