George Bernard Shaw Quotes
Most of my recent plays were written in the railway train between Hatfield and Kings Cross. I write anywhere, on the top of omnibuses or wherever I may be; it is all the same to me.
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I will say that a lot of songs that I've written are from my own personal experiences which are special to me.
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When 'Romeo and Juliet' came along, I fell in love with the way that it was written and how innocent and vulnerable it was and how different it was from 'True Grit.' I really liked that.
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I love to draw and paint. I'm very active in that way, but I'm not very good with the written word, though.
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I'll always love movies. But there's something I love very much about TV, when you shoot episodes while other episodes are still being written.
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My parents were big music fans, and my dad plays music, so I grew up with Madonna, Frank Zappa, the Beatles, Alice In Chains... it was all over the place. I had a Third Eye Blind record, but I also had Korn, Courtney Love, and Shania Twain.
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There is no such thing as a moral or an immoral book. Books are well written, or badly written.
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In old days books were written by men of letters and read by the public. Nowadays books are written by the public and read by nobody.
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I love writing. I've always written journals. I loved writing the book on living alone.
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Every pilot I've ever written, I've fallen deeply and madly in love with. It's the only way I work.
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In a way, it plays on your heart a little bit.
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I love the written word so much, I know it's gonna flow naturally.
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What stands out to me most about Maya Angelou is not what she has done or written or spoken; it's how she lived her life. She moved through the world with unshakable calm, confidence and a fierce grace.
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What is the poem, after it is written? That is the question. Not where it came from or why.
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What does it mean to a successful woman today? Does it mean you have to be a mother? If you are a mother, does it mean you have to be a mother with a husband? If you don't have a husband, what is the role that the man plays? I think there are a lot of confusing things that we're all really still sorting out.
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Of course the music is a great difficulty. You see, if one plays good music, people don't listen, and if one plays bad music people don't talk.
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Every cool riff has already been written by Black Sabbath. You're either playing it faster or slower or backwards, but they wrote it first.
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Books are well written, or badly written. That is all.
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In a great romance, each person plays a part the other really likes.
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I found that I was calling plays depending upon the terrain as much as anything
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I think that I would really like at first for the art to speak for itself. I don't see the need for a lot of personal information about my past or who I am. I would rather the personal side of it just be in the concepts and the genuine feelings that I filter through my work. I know that it's inevitable that people can find whatever they want about me. Once I've had a chance to create a language and a world with my art, then I'm more comfortable sharing that information.
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Little League baseball is a very good thing because it keeps the parents off the streets.
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Literary lineage is part of your autobiography. The authors are the literary base, the image base, the character base that you bring into your civilian work. Same with film, architecture, music, sports. That's one tributary of the autobiography.
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Most of my recent plays were written in the railway train between Hatfield and Kings Cross. I write anywhere, on the top of omnibuses or wherever I may be; it is all the same to me.
