George Bernard Shaw Quotes
What Englishman will give his mind to politics as long as he can afford to keep a motor car?
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I wrote seven Myron Bolitar novels in a row, and I never want to write a Myron book where he just solves a crime. Every one of them I want to be personal, and I want him to grow and change. The problem with that is, it makes the series limited, you can't write a series where a guy is always going through some kind of crisis.
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I tell people in Chicago to take care of themselves.
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You have to interpret what's hot to make it work on yourself. If tweed suits are in, but you're not a suit kind of girl, wear the jacket with jeans and a pair of Converses.
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When I was a child, I'd see a movie, I took it for what it was, I enjoyed it. And if I believed it I would tend to be more interested in knowing more about it.
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There is, hidden or flaunted, a sword between the sexes till an entire marriage reconciles them.
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My mum has lived in Australia for 22 years now, and we have a rocky relationship. But at the same time it's one I want to maintain. I need her to be my mum. The relationship took a lot of rebuilding.
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I think it's fun running with dogs. They're always so fit and fast.
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You've got the federal government in every part of our lives, doing things wrong.
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I was not emotionally mature enough to accept any kind of success when I was young. I needed to go that long route.
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Part of the reason I sort of shot out like a cannon out of Michigan and left home at such an early age is because I had to feel independent.
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I don't understand why there aren't more powerful female directors. I don't have the answers, but I hope that things may start to shift and that studios will employ more women to handle strong and interesting material.
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When you are poor, you'll have to think of ways to be better off.
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My husband and I are just really laid back people.
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I prefer to make movies which not only have a message for 'then' but a message for 'now.'
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I don't believe in these headline-hunting interviews. That's just not my style.
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The secret of my influence has always been that it remained secret.
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I was definitely nervous for the combine. You train for three months to go out there and perform for three days.
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My thinking is lot more different with many actresses in the industry. I don't understand why people in showbiz put their profession of acting in the back seat after marriage.
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Design and technology should be the subject where mathematical brainboxes and science whizzkids turn their bright ideas into useful products.
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When you look at those Xs and Os you're pretty confident in what they are able to do.
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Nothing is so aggravating than calmness.
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Activism is very seductive, and writing is painful and hard. It's very scary to have a death threat living over your head. Activism is very sustaining. But I don't view myself as a political person. I'm just someone who desperately wants to stay alive.
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What Englishman will give his mind to politics as long as he can afford to keep a motor car?
