George Bernard Shaw Quotes
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Nobody ever says to men, how can you be a Congressman and a father.
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I wrote seven Myron Bolitar novels in a row, and I never want to write a Myron book where he just solves a crime. Every one of them I want to be personal, and I want him to grow and change. The problem with that is, it makes the series limited, you can't write a series where a guy is always going through some kind of crisis.
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I love a good Slash guitar riff. It's sexy!
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They're like a weird couple. If you were to personify the artichoke and the oyster, they would have a great date. They would totally get along.
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An MC is somebody who can control the crowd. An MC is a master of ceremonies so not only can you say your rap, you can rock the party.
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A few months after NASA was formed, I was asked if I knew anyone who would like to set up a program in space astronomy.
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I remember my mother taking me as a very little kid to the roof of our home in Phnom Penh, Cambodia, to look at the bombs exploding in the distance. She didn't want us to be scared by the booms and the strange flashes of light. It was her way of helping us to understand what was happening.
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I don't think any actor can be satisfied. I am still in the learning phase and hope I am always in the learning frame of mind in acting or in anything else that I do. That's what makes life interesting and worth living.
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One of the great things about being a writer/journalist is that my boss loves me to go out and do features on being someone else. I did a feature on Kate Middleton, where I went to an incredible fancy state home in the countryside, put on a wedding dress and posed for engagement pictures with a fake Prince William.
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When my film flops, I believe it is my mistake. There have been times when I didn't come out of my house because my films didn't do well. I lock myself in for months. I don't talk to people. I feel bad for producer, director, for those who lost money. It's never about myself or my career alone.
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I used to wear sleeveless T-shirts all the time on court, but now I've got a brand new look - I've moved on to polo shirts. Sleeveless T-shirts give you real freedom of movement and they keep you cooler in matches, but I just thought it was time for a change.
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When men reach their sixties and retire, they go to pieces. Women go right on cooking.
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I just butcher a book. Everything I underline I assume is important to me.
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I went through my entire athletic life as a basketball player with only minimal physical setbacks, the worst being a couple of brain concussions, one in a college game in 1948, the other in 1954 while playing in the Eastern League, from which I recovered without permanent damage.
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You can bend, but never break. Stay Unbreakable!
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If I have to draw attention away from some hormone-induced acne on my chin, I put on a lot of mascara.
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Rice and vermicelli is a common combination in Arab and Turkish cooking - it has a lighter texture than rice on its own.
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And the idea of just wandering off to a cafe with a notebook and writing and seeing where that takes me for awhile is just bliss.
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The truth does not change according to our ability to stomach it.
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I believe that women have a capacity for understanding and compassion which man structurally does not have, does not have it because he cannot have it. He's just incapable of it.
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Man's sin is in his failure to live what he is. Being the master of the earth, man forgets that he is the servant of God.
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Friendship never forgets. That is the wonderful thing about it.
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I'm such a homebody. I don't party. I don't drink. That may be because I got it out all out of my system before I was 18.
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If you teach a man anything, he will never learn.
