George Bernard Shaw Quotes
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I feel that I am a scholar who only with the left hand writes novels.
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I didn't even know I could sing or write songs. I didn't have that education. But people shouldn't think they can look down on someone like me, because I've had the same success as others, sold the same amount of records, if not more. They shouldn't think that because I'm just from 'The X Factor,' I'm not credible or respected as much.
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The entertainment industry is vast and is a reflection of the society we live in.
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To most boys with growing limbs and swelling sinews, physical activity is a natural instinct, and there is no need to drive them into the football field or the fives court: they go there because they like it, and there is no need to make games compulsory for them.
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As a model, I really stand for not being a model, if that makes sense. When I started, the whole idea of the model was very different; it was a bit stuck-up. Not stuck-up, but no one was trying to have fun, or not even have fun, but be willing to smile.
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I've had grand pianos that are more expensive than, like, a year's worth of rent.
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I like to play table tennis, spend time with my kids.
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I didn't have any writer friends in college. I was a computer science major, but I was writing a lot, probably more than anybody I knew. I started to submit novels to New York when I was a freshman in college.
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I'd always gone to the theater as a child every month to see whatever was on. I think that's where the passion for it came from.
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I like movies in particular, on video or T.V. I have lots of old favorites, like Danny Kaye in 'The Court Jester' or 'The Secret Life of Walter Mitty' or James Stewart in 'Winchester '73.' But I also like a lot of modern films.
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Every man is a quotation from all his ancestors.
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You go on Facebook, you buy social advertising. And you can very cost-effectively target people who are in the market for your product from all over the world.
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If my wife was to say, 'Honey, I'd like you to go to PSG', I would have to take it into account.
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My comedy isn't about being attractive - it's about how the bar of dumb seems so low right now, and I desperately want to raise the bar of dumb just a tiny bit.
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I knew that I wanted to be a writer even before I knew exactly what being a writer entailed.
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Smell is a very animal thing, almost reptilian, where the more cerebral things like reading less so.
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I'm not working now, so I'm sort of facing the unknown.
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The best way for women to get into cycling is to go out in a group, to feel like you're part of it.
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I'm a very political person, and I think things through clearly, even when I was 18 years old.
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This is what I tell my students: step outside of your tiny little world. Step inside of the tiny little world of somebody else. And then do it again and do it again and do it again. And suddenly, all these tiny little worlds, they come together in this complex web. And they build a big, complex world.
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Blemishes on the beauty of a person one loves are like grace notes adding something to a piece of music.
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Being an actor, imitating to the point of inhabiting the lives of others, may simply be a way of continuing to do what I learned to do as a boy - to travel, mentally and physically.
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I wouldn't have ate it, only I'm too lady-like to take it out of my mouth.
