George Bernard Shaw Quotes
A photographer is like a cod, which produces a million eggs in order that one may reach maturity.
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We all have these challenges and stereotypes that exist, but you can't let that hold you down... If that's the first thing you think about as a black woman - the challenge that lies ahead - you are thinking in the wrong direction, in my opinion.
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I believe in the institution of marriage and it's like a tag to cement the relationship for your friends, family and public.
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'Star Wars' was, I mean, it was the first time I remember seeing three movies that all kind of went together. It was just an amazing final understanding of what a trilogy was.
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I like fiction and the kind of history that gives the grace and flavor of fiction to the past. No bloviation on current events, please. I can write that junk myself.
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I loved math and science. It just made sense to me. But my hatred for world history has come to bite me in the butt in my adult years. Every show I have done professionally has required me to study the world in which my characters lived.
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My father is a poet, my stepmother is a poet, and so I always had encouragement as a child to write.
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Every autobiography is concerned with two characters, a Don Quixote, the Ego, and a Sancho Panza, the Self.
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People are patronizing the theatres with renewed enthusiasm - there is an entire picnic-like attitude when families go out to see movies, which is a very good sign. They want to see larger-than-life characters on the big screen and not just watch movies on television or on DVDs.
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I've been disappointed by so many movie stars that I've seen, and they go out and they don't do it up, you know. And they don't - I just get so disappointed.
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In painting you must give the idea of the true by means of the false.
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The only way to find out why someone decides to engage in armed combat is to look at their individual personality.
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I've never been that guy who says, 'Ooh, I have to play King Lear'. First off, that'd be a disaster anyway. I tend to read something and see who's involved, and then know I want to be part of it. But I don't think I'm through with comedy. I still love to make people laugh.
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I really wasn't even sure if I should continue acting. I would like try and figure out if I could be good enough to do it. It was like 10 or 12 years into my career before I felt like maybe I can do it. It was such a different time than now.
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The public is wonderfully tolerant. It forgives everything except genius.
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What's great about working on a sitcom is that I spend so much time with people who are in other fields as well, such as writing, directing, and/or camera operating. Being on set is like being on a playground. I go from one thing to the next, and I've learned so much and hope to continue learning.
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I would love to work with Martin Scorsese.
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We must get to the point in our lives. What is the point? To become a new kind of man or woman, having inner command and outer excellence.
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I spent years commuting into London when I was working as a temp, and I hated the monotony of it.
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I do believe in the potential of like-minded people coming together.
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I guess I can be stereotypical and say that Asians are very cheap.
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I don't necessarily intend to publish posthumously, but I do like to write for myself.
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I'm fortunate to be famous for two rather imposing characters like Magneto and Gandalf.
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Housework is a breeze. Cooking is a pleasant diversion. Putting up a retaining wall is a lark. But teaching is like climbing a mountain.
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A photographer is like a cod, which produces a million eggs in order that one may reach maturity.
