George Bernard Shaw Quotes
That is what all poets do: they talk to themselves out loud; and the world overhears them. But it's horribly lonely not to hear someone else talk sometimes.
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My idols are Janis Joplin and Annie Lennox, who are neither of them from the typical pop culture.
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You're going through the horror of it, you're going through the isolation of it but you're being empowered by reminding yourself that you're connected to everybody else.
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There comes a time when money doesn't matter.
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An efficient government is dangerous in the hands of the wrong man. Sadly, the right sort of man never seems interested in the job.
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Over the years, I have been asked to play these sort of scary frenetic characters that express their emotions physically.
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My son, George, has been a bad, bad boy! Right, George?
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I'm encouraged because you pick up any food magazine and there's two or three recipes involving Indian spices.
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I think nowadays, women are breaking the borders or the boundaries and also trying to give a new interpretation in terms of impact you can have to the society.
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I've had completely gray hair since, like, 30.
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You don't need to wear Spanx if you buy my clothes. The dress, the trousers, the pencil skirt - they should do the work.
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Better mad with the rest of the world than wise alone.
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I placed my new novel, 'The Book of Lost Fragrances', in Paris, knowing it would be a challenge. But the book belonged in the city that is one of the greatest perfume capitals of the world and has been since for more than three centuries.
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You won't find me in a romantic comedy. Those movies don't speak to me. People don't come to talk to me about those scripts, because they probably think I'm this dark, twisted, miserable person.
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Growing up, there were TV shows that were very funny but very traditional. Classic things like 'Fawlty Towers,' obviously, and 'Blackadder' were pretty traditionally shot. And then there were the ones that start to break the mold or be really ambitious. The ones that spring particularly to mind would be 'The Young Ones.'
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In social matters, pointless conventions are not merely the bee sting of etiquette, but the snake bite of moral order.
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People are lucky and unlucky not according to what they get absolutely, but according to the ratio between what they get and what they have been led to expect.
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I passed a typing test and became a member of the staff of Rear Adm. Newton.
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I meant that the Chinese people are not aware of their own entrapment. They believe they live in a free society, but don't realize how much they are being monitored and controlled, how much the information they receive is restricted and warped, until they step out of line, that is, and feel the heavy hand of the state fall on them.
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Liner notes, Music Bank box set, 1999.
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One of the first signs of the beginning of understanding is the wish to die.
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We live in a fantasy world, a world of illusion. The great task in life is to find reality.
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If I could gain 1,000 pounds and be healthy, I would love to do that.
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I've always been a little bit in the background as a singer and even as an acoustic-guitar player, although I crank it up and rock with my Marshall stacks, too.
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That is what all poets do: they talk to themselves out loud; and the world overhears them. But it's horribly lonely not to hear someone else talk sometimes.
