George Bernard Shaw Quotes
What a heartbreaking job it is trying to combine authors for their own protection... the first lesson I learned was that when you take the field for the authors you will be safer without a breastplate than without a backplate.
Quotes to Explore
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Hollywood's got its own particular environment.
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Somebody gets to be smart and somebody gets to be dumb. If we win, it'll be because of the president. And if we lose, it'll be because of me.
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Whenever a film allows you to think and feel and take it beyond the moment, I think it's achieved something. And 'Funny Games' does that.
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I love lamb shank. It's my favorite thing. You don't have it in America. It's a younger meat - it just falls off the bone - it's kind of like a roast. I really like blackened cod too.
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Oh my God, Betty White is actually everything that you would expect her to be like.
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China's one-child policy was born in 1980, after years of less severe measures to discourage births. The Communist Party promised that the policy would be temporary.
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To the soldier, luck is merely another word for skill.
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I think it's much harder to have a long dialogue scene than an action scene. An action scene is long, but it's not really hard. It's kind of boring, really. It looks good at the end, but to shoot it, it's not the most exciting thing.
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I just had fun making the movies - just being on set - but I didn't really care about the acting part.
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I'm not playing a role. I'm being myself, whatever the hell that is.
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I took to wearing a black tie known as the Ascot, with long drooping ends. I had seen pictures of painters, sculptors, poets, wearing this style of tie.
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I have a fond place in my heart for Seattle, so I hope that an NBA team comes back to this great city, this great sports city.
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I have no hostility to nature, but a child's love to it. I expand and live in the warm day like corn and melons.
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I don't think that people should wear dresses two sizes too small. I just think that sexiness is better left to the imagination. It's just more tasteful.
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I'm afraid of the dark, so I have a lot of night-lights.
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We have done a lot of work on cost reduction, getting ourselves lean, reducing our breakeven, reducing our fixed cost and increasing exports. All of these factors help because our export basket is not just automotive but also includes industrial products, railways and others.
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The easier it looks on screen, the more hard work goes into making it so.
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I loved the writing process. I loved it.
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My children are grown now, they are more independent.
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Commerce is abusive. It's very hobbling to always be saying, 'Please let me put this out, this thing I've worked on for years.' It's like a nasty parent saying, 'No! Now go to your room.' As publishing companies got bigger, you felt even less significant.
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I would love it if anyone gave me the job of adapting 'The Great Gatsby,' but nobody ever does.
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The more I learned about Shoeless Joe, the more I felt he was maligned.
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Take seriously the traditions, the Christian roots, and all the values that are the basis of the civilisation of Europe.
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What a heartbreaking job it is trying to combine authors for their own protection... the first lesson I learned was that when you take the field for the authors you will be safer without a breastplate than without a backplate.
