George Bernard Shaw Quotes
Clever and attractive women do not want to vote; they are willing to let men govern as long as they govern men.
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I live on the same street as my family, actually. I live across the road. I'm a real family person!
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In international relations, you don't base your work on hope.
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Positive thinking will let you use the ability which you have, and that is awesome.
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I'm privileged to have had some success, but I've never forgotten what it was like to queue for a half-crown gallery seat for 'Oliver!' which is why I ensure that there are £20 day tickets for 'Miss Saigon' and that the balconies in my theatres are as comfortable as I can possibly make them.
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There's almost no author alive who isn't weathering the tumultuous changes in the publishing industry.
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No one wants to work with a difficult star. I want to be the nice guy.
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I'd always put on little shows at home, but when I was 11, I did a community event in Woodford, where anyone could go.
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The distinctions between Virginians, Pennsylvanians, New Yorkers, and New Englanders are no more. I am not a Virginian but an American.
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I did notice growing up that there are so many things, obstacles and things, that people think you can't do because you're Muslim or because you're wearing a hijab. You hear a lot of no's. That was something that I wanted to see change.
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You can never quit. Winners never quit, and quitters never win.
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I love action movies.
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I don't like family stories forcefully mixed with commercial elements.
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I was a pretty nice kid. Kind of quiet, but quiet in terms I wasn't going out and setting fire to anything. I had a big mouth and I was creative type, you know.
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We must curtail the flow of illegal immigrants across the Mexican border.
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The reality is, if you were fortunate to be born to rich parents, you have a better chance of succeeding in life. And that's wrong.
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If knowledge can create problems, it is not through ignorance that we can solve them.
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We are all the same person trying to shake hands with our self.
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For a very long time now I've been saying to young women, 'You can have it all, but not all at the same time.' How important it is to take very good care of yourself, of your mental and physical and spiritual wellbeing; it's hard to do. It's easier to be a workaholic than to have a truly balanced life.
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Do you lend books and DVDs to people? If so, don't you always regret it? All my life I have forced books on to people who have subsequently forgotten all about it. Meanwhile, on my shelves sit many orphaned books loaned to me over the years by trusting, innocent souls - some as long ago as the Seventies.
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I have discovered the art of deceiving diplomats. I tell them the truth and they never believe me.
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The common misconception is that as an actress you have to learn what you're doing. No, you just have to make the audience think you've learned it.
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Remember that all worlds draw to an end and that noble death is a treasure which no one is too poor to buy.
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Clever and attractive women do not want to vote; they are willing to let men govern as long as they govern men.
