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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Not taking risks one doesn't understand is often the best form of risk management.
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The questions don't happen when you hit 30 homers, right? If you hit 30 home runs, you hit 40 doubles, I don't think anybody questions your conditioning or your offseason program.
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I think that anybody coming out and saying, 'This is who I am, and let me show it to you...' is good for the world.
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There have been times throughout American history where what is right is not the same as what is legal. Sometimes to do the right thing you have to break the law.
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I know the music industry is based on a lot of smoke and mirrors in a lot of cases, such as making things look like one thing versus what it actually is. I feel like I've been here long enough that I've surpassed the need for any of that.
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What Englishman will give his mind to politics as long as he can afford to keep a motor car?
