George Bernard Shaw Quotes
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It is exciting to write about the present once one gets beyond the trivia of the moment. As a time to live in, as a time to think about, the present is intriguing.
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There is no hope unmingled with fear, and no fear unmingled with hope.
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The trick to acting is not to show off, it's to think the thoughts of the character.
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I know there are a lot of people out there who have the best intentions but not the voice, so it's about people like me to give them a voice and hear their ideas.
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You turn up on set, and somebody who has come out of Oxford, has done a BBC course, is telling you how to act. You think, 'Do me a favour. Go and make a coffee.'
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I've always performed. I've done plays at home.
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We need to consider nominations as thoroughly and carefully as the American people deserve. No one is entitled to a free pass to a lifetime appointment to the Supreme Court.
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I didn't write the book to sell the book, but to tell my experiences.
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It is not whether you really cry. It's whether the audience thinks you are crying.
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Unfortunately, the Senate Democrats have become an extreme party. They have become a party that has abdicated their responsibilities. Under Harry Reid and the Senate Democrats, we have a do-nothing Senate.
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I'm competitive. I don't like to lose.
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I try and sit on the fence because as soon as you voice any kind of opinion, people begin to think you're an idiot.
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My confidence is easy to shake. I am very well aware of all of my flaws. I am aware of all the insecurities that I have.
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I think that cancer is a life form that exists out there, and it exists in us. I think even the concept of healing is a spiritual principle that we have to really look at. I think the word itself is something we ought to get rid of, because it implies that there is illness - that there is something wrong.
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My mum's really short so she always wears really tall heels, and I used to steal them and now it's just a part of my everyday life.
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If you go through life, and you don't find the beauty in an unexpected place, then you really have a sad existence.
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I was a normal American nerd.
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All Hollywood corrupts; and absolute Hollywood corrupts absolutely.
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I do find that as a curvy girl, as I guess I've sort of been deemed, I don't think you want to run your curves off, because then you're just not yourself.
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It really is a blessing when two people who are so full of dignity and kindness and really live to make the world a better place get together.
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The Bernie ones were - they had a lot more spirit. I think we’re going to get a lot of Bernie voters, if you want to know the truth. Because they do understand that trade is killing us. Trade.
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The journalist researches a story. The novelist imagines it.What’s funny is, you’d be amazed at the amount of time a novelist has to spend with people in order to create this single lonely voice. This seemingly isolated world.It’s hard to call any of my novels 'fiction.'
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The more games you get, the more confidence you gain. I started to set the bar high for myself.
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My way of joking is to tell the truth. It's the funniest joke in the world.
