George Bernard Shaw Quotes
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You can be tops in Australia and be unheard of everywhere else.
Barry Gibb Bee Gees -
I think writers have to be proactive: they've got to use new technology and social media. Yes, it's hard to get noticed by traditional publishers, but there's a great deal of opportunity out there if you've got the right story.
Ian Rankin -
If you have two parents who have to work, who want to work, you need to have someone to guide your child.
Laura Linney -
All I know is stars and hits, you know what I mean? I don't just sign a guy because he has a hot record. I sign a guy because he's a star. He's a pillar of the community.
Fat Joe -
I don't think Bosnia is ready for reconciliation, but I do think it is ready for truth.
Paddy Ashdown -
I'm not saying I'm a paragon of virtue, but it's hard for me not to be honorable.
Wayne Rogers
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My children are English, and both of their mothers were English.
Salman Rushdie -
My choosing Islam was not a political statement; it was a spiritual statement.
Kareem Abdul-Jabbar -
Honestly, all the sweets and bad stuff on set don't really call to me because I'm working so much. I've trained myself to stay away from sugar.
Taylor Schilling -
Tardiness in literature can make me nervous.
Manuel Puig -
I have an irregular heartbeat, so that means a fair amount of medication - and I have blood pressure pills, too, but no vitamins or supplements.
Maeve Binchy -
One of my goals is that, at a dinner party some time in the future, someone will say, 'Oh, my nephew is starting a ready-to-wear brand', and 20 people will turn around and say, 'Is he? Can we invest?' in the same way that, now, if you were to say, 'My nephew is starting a mobile app,' everyone would say, 'Oh, smashing! Can I invest?'
Natalie Massenet
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You hesitate to stab me with a word, and know not - silence is the sharper sword.
Samuel Johnson -
I am a soul. I know well that what I shall render up to the grave is not myself. That which is myself will go elsewhere. Earth, thou art not my abyss!
Victor Hugo -
I love love stories, no matter how dark.
Abbie Cornish -
Do as much as possible, and talk of yourself as little as possible.
Sallust -
Kenzo were celebrating their 30th anniversary, and they did this big, huge show in Paris and invited back all the models who'd walked for them in the 30-year era. How I found myself in the mix, I'll never know.
Caitriona Balfe -
I love my life and my mistakes and my triumphs - all of it.
Flea Red Hot Chili Peppers
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When I composed, I heard my music played by the orchestra within days of completion of the score. No master at a conservatory, no matter how revered, can teach as much by verbal criticism as can a cold and analytical hearing of one's own music being played.
Andre Previn -
All writers in some insane place believe that to write is a holy chore - that what one wishes to do is speak to one’s time, to make a difference, to say: 'I was here. I was a force for good in some way.'
Harlan Ellison -
These ruinous days of Autumn.At dusk,the brightness seeps through the crumbling air,at dusk the air gathers up the brightness
Edward Hirsch -
I developed a sense of self before moving to crazy Hollywood, which was really important.
Jane Levy -
I will work to bring peace to everyone - whatever economic level - as long as you are Haitian.
Jean-Bertrand Aristide -
Man can climb to the highest summits, but he cannot dwell there long.
George Bernard Shaw