George Bernard Shaw Quotes
I showed my appreciation of my native land in the usual Irish way: by getting out of it as soon as I possibly could.
Quotes to Explore
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One of my earliest memories is of my father carrying me in one arm with a picket sign in the other.
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For me, one thing I love is having an arc for a character.
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I don't think you should always stay calm in a tense situation, because you might not ever confront the problem. Maybe it's better to actually let yourself be tense - and find a solution.
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The high-grossing films are not all that interesting to me, I have to say. It's not stuff I would want to be in. Yes, you would want the big paycheck, but that's never really been my concern.
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It's really important to me that the public have confidence in their criminal justice system. We don't operate very well if the public doesn't trust us.
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For me, California is all about rest, relaxation, space.
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Strange bonds of trust and self-deception tend to grow between journalists and their subjects.
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My father started with nothing and is a self-made man. No matter what I do with my life, I can never match his accomplishments.
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We come into relationships often very much identified with our needs. I need this, I need security, I need refuge, I need friendship. And all of relationships are symbiotic in that sense. We come together because we fulfill each others' needs at some level or other.
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I was outraged to learn that the president wanted to outsource operations at some American ports to the United Arab Emirates.
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I'm a notorious late-night texter. I seem to use a lot of lip, heart, and tongue emoji.
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The more I learned about Shoeless Joe, the more I felt he was maligned.
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I think one of the most boring things is a person's taste.
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As a film actor, you don't often get that opportunity to meet with your audience and take your applause on stage.
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I find that movies tend to fix the aesthetics of a story in people's minds.
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I don't remember ever having writer's block. If I sit in there for four hours, I'll usually have something.
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When you research prolific songwriters, it is usually later in their career they write songs that they distance themselves from, or it's about other people.
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I have good spacial awareness, and I'm pretty comfortable with a sword.
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There is a loving way with words and an unloving way. And it is only with the loving way that the simplicity of language becomes beautiful.
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Whichever way we look the prospect is disagreeable. Behind, we have left pleasures we shall never enjoy, and therefore regret; and before, we see pleasures which we languish to possess, and are consequently uneasy till we possess them.
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I love the music business very much.
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My boy is a mean kid. I came home the other day and saw him taping worms to the sidewalk, he sits there and watches the birds get hernias. Well, only last Christmas I gave him a B-B gun and he gave me a sweatshirt with a bulls-eye on the back. I told my kids, "Someday, you'll have kids of your own." One of them said, "So will you."
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Motherhood has never been an ambition. I don't think like that. I never have expectations like, 'When I'm 19 I'm going to do this, and by the time I've hit 25 I'm going to do that'. I just take things as they come, each day at a time, and if things happen then all well and good.
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I showed my appreciation of my native land in the usual Irish way: by getting out of it as soon as I possibly could.
