George Bernard Shaw Quotes
As 99 per cent of English authors and 100 per cent of American ones authors are just such imbeciles, managers and publishers make a practice of asking for every right the author possesses.
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The Kiss scene was attempted three times. The first was in a peculiar spot of the fort on the ground level. It felt forced to me, and I knew right away that, in spite of what others were saying, it was dead wrong.
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As I'm writing, certain things become clear to me and certain things begin to feel right and make sense. The pieces start to fall into place.
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This is going right to the police. So, it's a very dangerous precedent.
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So as far as Serbia is concerned, it does not have the right to influence the privatization or to claim any property, because Kosovo is a former member of the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia.
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I like to believe, as a writer, that anybody who isn't a reader yet has just not found the right book.
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If I am elected president we will secure the border and we will end the illegal immigration.
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That's all I cared about too, was getting it right.
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If you've got five cameras, you're making sure that you're in the right position for each one of the cameras.
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Writers are essential. Readers are essential. Publishers are not.
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Does the imam have a legal right to build the mosque at Ground Zero? The answer is yes. But is it the right thing to do? The answer is no. And most Americans, and most moderate Muslims, join with me in that call.
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I defend Israel's right to exist, to defend themselves, to not let themselves be exterminated a second time.
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Children are not a right, they are a privileged obligation.
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With 20 top-10 finishes, I feel we're on the right path.
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Maybe someone will step up, but they don't have anyone right now.
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The relationship between me and President Mandela right at the beginning was not a very well-established relationship. It was based on two meetings.
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No longer shall I paint interiors with men reading and women knitting. I will paint living people who breathe and feel and suffer and love.
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Writing, producing and directing, I must say, is incredibly satisfying and gratifying. I've never been happier.
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There are certain things I couldn't write because they're not intrinsic to my beliefs. For instance, I couldn't write a hero or heroine who didn't put children first.
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Now what is just and right is to be interpreted in the sense of 'what is equal'; and that which is right in the sense of being equal is to be considered with reference to the advantage of the state, and the common good of the citizens. And a citizen is one who shares in governing and being governed. He differs under different forms of government, but in the best state he is one who is able and willing to be governed and to govern with a view to the life of virtue.
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The medical profession is a conspiracy to hide its own shortcomings. No doubt the same may be said of all professions. They are all conspiracies against the laity... Until there is a practicable alternative to blind trust in the doctor, the truth about the doctor is so terrible that we dare not face it.
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Somewhere in that 20-year period, I would assume that there will be some basically new approach that will begin to cut into it, but it's got a long time.
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In the country places of Ireland, writing is held in certain awe: a writer was a dangerous man from whom they instinctively recoiled.
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As 99 per cent of English authors and 100 per cent of American ones authors are just such imbeciles, managers and publishers make a practice of asking for every right the author possesses.
