George Bernard Shaw Quotes
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The working environment in L.A. is really refreshing, really good. Because in Malaysia, it's a small country - you end up working with the same people that you like and that you know.
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I profoundly feel that the art of living is the art of giving. You're fulfilled in the moment of giving, of doing something beyond yourself.
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The last suit that you wear, you don't need any pockets.
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The end of secrecy would be the end of the novel - especially the English novel. The English novel requires social secrecy, personal secrecy.
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I talk about life, and I make universal music with an American style - and that's what I do.
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Every child should at least grow up in family rather than without one.
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Only a few good leaders have paused to reflect seriously on being leaders.
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Men weren't always happy for me. It was very challenging to watch a woman be so successful.
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Public opinion polls are rather like children in a garden, digging things up all the time to see how they're growing.
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But the Wisdom of God, which is His only-begotten Son, being in all respects incapable of change or alteration, and every good quality in Him being essential, and such as cannot be changed and converted, His glory is therefore declared to be pure and sincere.
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Lend your ears to music, open your eyes to painting, and... stop thinking! Just ask yourself whether the work has enabled you to 'walk about' into a hitherto unknown world. If the answer is yes, what more do you want?
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We all go to the theater and cinema to be inspired and moved on an emotional level, sometimes to laughter, sometimes to tears. Once I discovered that acting could have such an effect, I was sold. It has been one of the most rewarding discoveries I have ever made.
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When you judge another, you do not define them, you define yourself.
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I like mellow music. I like some jazz. But I'm not a big hard rock guy.
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As so often before, liberty has been wounded in the house of its friends.
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Pain is never permanent.
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Cricket pays well, so a lot of people are naturally drawn towards the game. But to carve a niche in non-cricket sports is not easy. So state governments need to be proactive. Indians need to be made aware of the power of an Olympic medal. It should be treated at par with an Oscars or a Nobel Prize.
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Often the last thing I want to do is stand up in front of 50 cameras on the red carpet. I'd rather have a cup of hot milk and an early night.
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My interactions with Sorkin were agonisingly weird. He is by far the weirdest person I have ever met. I had dinner with him and a few hours before I got an e-mail from his assistant saying, 'Sean, this does not need to be a long conversation. Aaron is only going to use it to win your trust.'
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One of the satisfactions of a genius is his will-power and obstinacy.
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People wonder if there is a relationship between my lack of sight and the way I sing. But there's no connection.
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My characters always start well in movies. Almost every movie I've done starts with a happy marriage, it's all beautiful, wealthy, whatever... and then of course my husband leaves me, and everything falls apart.
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I know I began as a passion and have ended as a habit, like all husbands.
