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 just part of a tradition of people who aren't pleased. I would never think anyone else who has the same attitude was getting it from me. I'd just think they're... sensible.
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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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To all, to each, a fair good-night, and pleasing dreams, and slumbers light.
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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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I am only one-eighth the writer I might have been had I contained all the fragmented languages of Trinidad.
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She looked as if butter wouldn't melt in her mouth - or anywhere else.
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Men wake up aroused in the morning. We can't help it. We just wake up and we want you. And the women are thinking, "How can he want me the way I look in the morning?" It's because we can't see you. We have no blood anywhere near our optic nerve.
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Most people go to their grave with their music inside them.
