George Bernard Shaw Quotes
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I took my acting very seriously. I did over 40 films, and naturally, some of them were called B-movies because the woman was at the top of the billing. Women couldn't star in their own movies.
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In the future, I want to have super-fights.
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I'm the most Colombian of the Colombians, even though I've lived 47 years outside of Colombia. I've lived 13 years in New York, and I never did a painting about New York. I've lived in France more than 30 years, and I've never painted Paris.
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Especially on unexpected journeys, you have time; you can figure certain deeper things out, like who you are and what you want. That's why I enjoy journeys.
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People that don't know me get 'Mossed'. It means, I was gonna go home, but then I just got led astray. In the best possible way, of course. I mean, it's always fun, and a good time.
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Music was always part of my life - my mother says I came out singing. I wanted to be Gene Kelly - or Judy Garland.
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By the time I was ten, everyone knew I wanted to be a producer. I was a very precocious little boy.
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I turn my negatives into my positives because one of my mottos is, 'Yesterday's history, tomorrow's a mystery,' meaning that you can't go back and change anything in the past.
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It's called a pen. It's like a printer, hooked straight to my brain.
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I was timid and frightened as a child. Yours truly did not shin up mountains or do any other kind of adventurous stuff.
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Drinking a cup of coffee with your eyes closed isn't a sophisticated task for a person, but it's hard for a robot.
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Seeing myself on the screen makes me cringe. I understand that I am that way - pouty.
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Here lies W. C. Fields. I would rather be living in Philadelphia.
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I don't like being in debt, and I wouldn't borrow money for anything.
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Personally, I have nothing against work, particularly when performed, quietly and unobtrusively, by someone else. I just don't happen to think it's an appropriate subject for an 'ethic.'
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Enhance and intensify one's vision of that synthesis of truth and beauty which is the highest and deepest reality.
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I think sometimes I should do more carousing, because I don't do much and maybe it would be fun occasionally. It's hard for me to have fun and I'm a serious thinker and a searcher and funny from the front.
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Accustom yourself continually to make many acts of love, for they enkindle and melt the soul.
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Presented with a song like Exit Music, It's impossible to know what to add without actually making it worse. How can you play along when It's already there?
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Those who direct the maximum force of their desires toward the center, toward true being, toward perfection, seem quieter than the passionate souls because the flame of their fervor cannot always be seen.
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The United States transportation system is the envy of the world.
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For each character, I try to understand what is driving them.
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The key that unlocks energy is desire. It's also the key to a long and interesting life. If we expect to create any drive, any real force within ourselves, we have to get excited.
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Most people go to their grave with their music inside them.
