George Bernard Shaw Quotes
God has given us a world that nothing but our own folly keeps from being a paradise.
George Bernard Shaw
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Acting, and the privilege of being able to do it for a living, is so important to me. I don't turn up and just hope for the best. I really fret about it. I do my homework; I prepare myself for the experience of playing a particular character.
Kate Winslet
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My mother had an illegal abortion in 1960, which was the year the birth control pill came out, but I guess a little late for her, but - and I never knew. I found out when my father, after her death, got her FBI file.
Katha Pollitt
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What I love about film is that everybody often connects to something so different, and things you couldn't anticipate when you were making the film, so you just make it as honest as possible.
Rachel McAdams
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Humor can be an incredible, lacerating and effective weapon.
Carl Hiaasen
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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.
Octavia Spencer
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In Europe, a writer is supposed to improve up until he's about 75.
Irwin Shaw
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If man could be crossed with the cat it would improve man, but deteriorate the cat.
Mark Twain
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I've spent my life doing action films and most of my own stunts, so my teeth have been knocked out along the way. It happened so frequently that I can't even remember where I lost most of them.
James Cosmo
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Being in a field like healthcare, for me, as someone who is basically on a mission to make a global impact in terms of affordable access to healthcare, I am very, very concerned about the fact that there are a large number of people in this world who need to have some access to basic rights, whether it is in education or healthcare.
Kiran Mazumdar-Shaw
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For by doing these things the gates of hell shall not prevail against you; yea, and the Lord God will disperse the powers of darkness from before you, and cause the heavens to shake for your good, and his name's glory.
Harold B. Lee
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I'm cynical by nature, but I am also very hopeful because I see people from the Left and the Right showing up to these tea parties. You have people, bikers, union members and guys in three-piece suits showing up to these things.
Joe Wurzelbacher
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God has given us a world that nothing but our own folly keeps from being a paradise.
George Bernard Shaw