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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Music is my shining light, my favorite thing in the world. T get me to stop doing it for one second would be difficult!
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The unbearableness of the future is easier to face than that of the present if only because human foresight is much more destructive than anything that the future can bring about.
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I have taught the long poem off and on for years. The more book-length poems I read and studied and taught the more interested I was in the possibilities in writing a poetry that applied formal and substantive options of narrative and non-narrative, lyric and non-lyric. I found many pleasures in this kind of writing. The long poem is as old as the art form.
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I don't have a great instrument. I don't have the kind of ungodly control over my voice and body that great actors have. And I've worked with enough great actors to know that I'm not one.
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I was six years old when 'The Little Mermaid' was released in 1989 and was immediately struck by the fiery-maned, melodic-voiced, tail-swinging mermaid protagonist. She spoke to me on levels deeper than her father's oceanic kingdom.
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What Englishman will give his mind to politics as long as he can afford to keep a motor car?
