George Bernard Shaw Quotes
Americans adore me and will go on adoring me until I say something nice about them.
Quotes to Explore
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I competed in track for 10 years and have been doing kickboxing forever.
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So the darkness shall be the light, and the stillness the dancing.
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It's not just the actor in front of the camera. And it's important to have respect for all those people that work behind the camera.
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I just want to be the best. I haven't been in an all-out war. That doesn't mean I'm not the best.
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It is often easier to become outraged by injustice half a world away than by oppression and discrimination half a block from home.
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I kind of went into soap opera with 'General Hospital' in the '80s. It's like theater because every day it's a new script, which really doesn't have a beginning, middle or end like a play or a movie script. So you have to be on your toes and bring it every day. And you have to be spontaneous, which is really how I like to work.
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I'd rather be hated for who I am than loved who I am not. Even if you're not accepted, at least you are still yourself.
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Music is about the performance.
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The tiger springs in the new year. Us he devours.
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Back in the '70s - I remember the '70s: we were told there was global cooling. And everyone was told global cooling was a really big problem. And then that faded.
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I hate when a guy brags... or he sweats.
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I've found that people get particularly frustrated and shut down when women in fiction are disgusting or disordered.
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And hence he must be invisible; for a spirit cannot be seen by the eye of man: nor is there any thing in this principle contradictory to reason or experience.
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I like being like a chameleon who transforms himself with each role.
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I believe in that gladiatorial mind-set. I love it.
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Every time I write a book, I've probably taken five years off my life.
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A certain administration which I won't call by name took the arts out of the schools, and that left the brothers out on the street with nothing, so they went to the turntables and started rhyming. Then they had a way to express themselves, and that's the birth of hip-hop.
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The 'Police Academy' stuff was all hyper-slapsticky.
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If art does not enlarge men's sympathies, it does nothing morally.
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I keep a very low profile in Switzerland. There are only about 2,000 people in the village I live in, so it's a quiet town.
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I believe in the sanctity of human life, from the womb to the tomb.
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I remember Uncle Boysie telling me that Canada was so safe the policemen wore nice red outfits and rode on horses but according to Roy the country was like Gotham City with crooks around every corner… I pictured them as shady Frank Miller characters with bulging muscles and machine guns poking out from trench coats but the photograph from the papers was of a group of boys my age. They kind of resembled some of my friends from Mayaro too.
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Your heart can only take you so far - sometimes the physical body tells you otherwise.
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Americans adore me and will go on adoring me until I say something nice about them.
