George Bernard Shaw Quotes
Nietzche . . . he was a confirmed Life Force worshipper. It was he who raked up the Superman, who is as old as Prometheus; and the 20th century will run after this newest of the old crazes when it gets tired of the world, the flesh, and your humble servant.
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In another life, I could be a personal shopper.
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Climate is what we expect, weather is what we get.
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When I was first approached for 'Pass the Plate,' I was thrilled because I love to cook. And I love to cook healthy. The reason I started cooking was because I would go to restaurants and have just amazing food but feel so heavy and gross. I would go home and try to cook the same thing, but a healthy version.
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The saving grace of the cinema is that with patience, and a little love, we may arrive at that wonderfully complex creature which is called man.
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Hardly nobody gets to live two genders in their life.
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I did my first film with Francis Ford Copploa, which spoiled the hell out of me.
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Waiting to be hired, as an actor, especially, is soul-destroying... There is always something you can do... Create something, a play reading... Anything. But don't rely on other people to come to you. Put yourself out there.
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Actually, I'm 130, but 125 is what I put on my resume, because that's what I look like I weigh.
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You try to be arrogant in songs because you can't be in real life.
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The story of Pinocchio and the Talking Cricket, in which one sees that bad children do not like to be corrected by those who know more than they do.
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You must learn some of my philosophy. Think only of the past as its remembrance gives you pleasure.
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The work never matches the dream of perfection the artist has to start with.
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I'm pretty proud of my film music in general.
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Nietzsche famously said "Whatever doesn't kill you makes you stronger." But what he failed to stress is that it almost kills you.
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He wanted to live without distractions; he wanted to focus all the life-force he had left on this last book. But now it was hard to concentrate. There was something new in his life. There was the painful distraction of desire.
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Some people habitually wear sadness, like a garment, and think it a becoming grace. God loves a cheerful worshipper.
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Art... is merely the refuge which the ingenious have invented, when they were supplied with food and women, to escape the tediousness of life.
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One's own troubles can be borne with fortitude; only a monster of indifference can bear the sufferings of others with fortitude.
