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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The conscience of children is formed by the influences that surround them; their notions of good and evil are the result of the moral atmosphere they breathe.
Jean Paul
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Sometimes I want to just pull the off switch, but you can't because if you go outside, you have to give people your all. You can't say, 'Oh, you know what? I'm not feeling good today.' No. No one's trying to hear that. When a woman comes up to you and says, 'Hey, my daughter's your biggest fan. Can we have a picture?' You can't say no.
Nicki Minaj
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Exposure to a diversity of disciplines has been exceptionally helpful to me.
Irene Rosenfeld
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Sometimes fans, sometimes even players, they don't know the game sometimes, and they look at numbers, or they use smoke-and-mirrors as far as who's a top 15 player, who's a top 20 player.
Andre Iguodala
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I would like to leave this world and never return. I severed my ear, but how I wish that I had severed my heart. I shall never amount to anything.
Vincent Van Gogh
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God has given us a world that nothing but our own folly keeps from being a paradise.
George Bernard Shaw
