George Bernard Shaw Quotes
The hand of the painter is incurably mechanical: his technique is incurably artificial... The camera... is so utterly unmechanical.
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I looked at the world with the humaneness, I think, which is one of the hallmarks of being liberal in my mind.
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Around the world, climate change is an existential threat - but if we harness the opportunities inherent in addressing climate change, we can reap enormous economic benefits.
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In his first 100 days, Mr. Obama has put the fate of his presidency in the hands of House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid. He may come to regret that decision.
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The meek shall inherit the Earth, but not its mineral rights.
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I basically use Facebook and Twitter and MySpace to communicate with the fans. I don't think it's necessarily about advancing my career, but I do want to be able to connect with my fans. They are so important to me, and a lot of them have stuck with me since the very beginning, and that means so much to me.
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I was at 260 at Tennessee because I was playing three-technique.
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The best pop music is the songs that a group of people can dance to, but you can also listen to in your bed and cry. That's something obviously that The Beatles started and... so having that darkness there opens another door.
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Making the 'An Idiot Abroad' series, I was really dreading going to India; I thought I'd hate it. It was a nightmare, and I was really ill - just like everyone says.
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You've got to eat while you dream. You've got to deliver on short-range commitments, while you develop a long-range strategy and vision and implement it. The success of doing both. Walking and chewing gum if you will. Getting it done in the short-range, and delivering a long-range plan, and executing on that.
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Football sometimes is stressful. Music is more of a kind of laid-back type, chilled-out kind of activity. It kind of keeps me balanced, I guess.
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The worship of youth has diminished - perhaps generally - in recent years.
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I was in a music class when I was little, and they discovered I had a talent and could sing. From there, I joined this singing troupe in California, and I would just go sing at festivals in this girl group and perform as much as I could.
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I don't want to smoke on screen, as I will be sending a wrong message to my fans, and I appeal to my costars too, to avoid smoking scenes if possible.
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Then I did Mystic Pizza, just to do something I wasn't fat in.
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A healthy vision of the future is not possible without an accurate knowledge of the past.
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Republicans and blacks had an unlikely alliance around 'max black' after the 1990 census. By concentrating black voters in some districts, the strategy elected a record number of black congressmen in 1992. But the remaining 'bleached' districts were more likely to elect white Republicans.
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Like the child, the creative writing student is posited as a centre of vulnerable creativity, needful of attention and authority.
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A kind heart is a fountain of gladness, making everything in its vicinity freshen into smiles.
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Women will risk their lives to protect children, but rarely risk their lives to protect an adult man.
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It's not like I ride a broom into interviews. I don't hang upside down with a cape on.
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...our quarrels with the world are like our quarrels with God: no matter how right we are, we are wrong.
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The girls said she was too cynical about love, but how could you not be? On the surface, relations between men and women were all soft kisses and white gowns and hand-holding. But underneath they were a scary, complicated, ugly mess, just waiting to rise to the surface.
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For me, being in front of the camera and training go hand in hand.
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The hand of the painter is incurably mechanical: his technique is incurably artificial... The camera... is so utterly unmechanical.
