George Bernard Shaw Quotes
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I let characters be human and flawed and relatable.
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We ought to have more women in various management positions, because women are the ones who decide almost everything in the home.
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When I do a character, I try to base it on someone I have met or an experience I've had.
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My boy and I move. We have this game where if we dress in a particular item of clothing, we have to do a different movement. A hat means 20 jumps - that sort of thing. When I put a scarf on, my son has to drop down and do push-ups, immediately. He thinks it's really funny.
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I started writing half a paragraph of a mystery novel, half a paragraph there, and they were terrible.
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The stuff that's going on is just so over-the-top, with the banking crisis and destroying the Gulf of Mexico, and the outrage hasn't quite caught up with the people yet. But when it does, I think you're going to see really virulent anti-authoritarian kind of comedy coming out.
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There are a lot of grotesqueries in politics, not the least of which is the fund-raising side.
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When I travel, I just take what I need and I run. I always have my briefcase stuffed with work, even when I go on a holiday.
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I'm not playing for other musicians. We're trying to reach the guy who works all day and wants to spend a buck at night. We'll keep him happy.
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It is not my nature, when I see a people borne down by the weight of their shackles - the oppression of tyranny - to make their life more bitter by heaping upon them greater burdens; but rather would I do all in my power to raise the yoke than to add anything that would tend to crush them.
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People want to come to Pakistan but are not given visas. We wish for visas to be given to those people who want to come to Pakistan.
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When I record something, I'll take a drive and just listen.
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In all three cases, and for most human beings, the problem of suffering poses no difficult problem at all: one has a world picture in which suffering has its place, a world picture that takes suffering into account.
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I get why certain actors want to stay in the closet.
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You have to let it all hang out, let go of the ideas that were more comfortable and embrace some of the sadness in your life.
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If I were to leave the U.S., I'd live in England. But I'd never leave the U.S. I own a 400-acre farm in Macon, Georgia. I raise cattle and hogs. I own horses, too. I love horses as much as singing. I like to hunt on horseback.
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I think that a good mountaineer is usually a sensible mountaineer.
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For the last 12 years, I've felt really privileged to be living such a normal life. It's so a part of who I am.
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I hear a little firecracker go off when you come up with a good rhyme.
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My mom is a painter and photographer and my grandfather was an artist, so I've always been surrounded by creative people.
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The art of remembering is the art of thinking. When we wish to fix a new thing in either our own mind or a pupil's, our conscious effort should not be so much to impress and retain it as to connect it with something else already there. The connecting is the thinking; and, if we attend clearly to the connection, the connected thing will certainly be likely to remain within recall.
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In the good mystery there is nothing wasted, no sentence, no word that is not significant.
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The slapdash way producers used to assemble a show seems a little unbelievable when we talk about them now.
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It is feeling that sets a man thinking, and not thought that sets him feeling.
