George Bernard Shaw Quotes
God has given us a world that nothing but our own folly keeps from being a paradise.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Humor can be an incredible, lacerating and effective weapon.
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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.
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In Europe, a writer is supposed to improve up until he's about 75.
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I guess I probably make violent films partly because I can't express my anger in my real life very well.
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I would love to do Shakespeare in New York.
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For a long time, I couldn't even afford food and clothing. I climbed from the very bottom of the society.
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When my mum first told me she got sick, I didn't cry. I probably cried over my mum's illness twice.
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Look closely, and you can see where the grooves of a record widen, indicating a sparseness that can only be a bass solo, or grow denser to accommodate a cresting density of sound.
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Most of the people who will walk after me will be children, so make the beat keep time with short steps.
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But when you work with the director and the real person who is playing opposite you, it changes everything. You are almost in a working session. I was very comfortable, and that's maybe what helped me to get the part.
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The instant myth of Amy Fisher turned feminist dogma on on is head: as in the hit films Fatal Attraction, Basic Instinct, and The Hand That Rocks the Cradle, woman rules and destroys. The femme fatale is for real.
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Can't get up in the morning lately and I'm just sunk in a dream I'm always the ship in the stream
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Until work has reached its previous stage nympharium privileges are denied to all.
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Let no man posture as an advocate of peace if he proposes or supports any social system that initiates the use of force against individual men, in any form.
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Assembled in a crowd, people lose their powers of reasoning and their capacity for moral choice.
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The American father is never seen in London. He passes his life entirely in Wall Street and communicates with his family once a month by means of a telegram in cipher.
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Vietnam was the first time that Americans of different races had to depend on each other. In the Second World War, they were segregated; it was in Vietnam that American integration happened in the military - and it wasn't easy.
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I think maternal instinct is a male construct that has been used for centuries to keep women in their place, at home.
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Fatigue is the safest sleeping draught.
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Most of us understand that innovation is enormously important. It's the only insurance against irrelevance. It's the only guarantee of long-term customer loyalty. It's the only strategy for out-performing a dismal economy.
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God has given us a world that nothing but our own folly keeps from being a paradise.
