George Bernard Shaw Quotes
I lay my eternal curse on whomsoever shall now or at any time hereafter make schoolbooks of my works and make me hated as Shakespeare is hated. My plays were not designed as instruments of torture. All the schools that lust after them get this answer, and will never get any other.
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In a gentle way, you can shake the world.
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I do suspect that this world is hell.
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I think the films we see, the Hollywood films, which are basically entertainment, will still be there, but they'll be in a totally different category. People won't take them seriously. They'll kind of end up the way comic books have. A side view of things.
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Today we are engaged in a deadly global struggle for those who would intimidate, torture, and murder people for exercising the most basic freedoms. If we are to win this struggle and spread those freedoms, we must keep our own moral compass pointed in a true direction.
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Winter testing is essential but there comes a point where you have had enough of all the rehearsals and the pretend racing. You just want to get down to the real action.
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Stuxnet, a computer worm reportedly developed by the United States and Israel that destroyed Iranian nuclear centrifuges in attacks in 2009 and 2010, is often cited as the most dramatic use of a cyber weapon.
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A writer without a reader doesn't exist.
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Every time you pass a law, it is a little bite out of freedom.
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People did not even then like to eat dirt, if they could see it.
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I am really honoured, but if the prize had gone to Mahatma Gandhi before me, I would have been more honoured.
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I don't wanna be preached to. Unless it's in a beautiful voice, I don't want that.
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People are going to go where they get characters that they remember.
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I really fought to make my character not a stereotype. I play a soap star with dyed blonde hair.
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I never had planned for my life and my career.
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Acting was always my unscratched itch, when I was in college and even afterwards.
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Doing 'Kingsman' is such hard work. It's so physical and demanding.
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You make a movie with some people, you become friends over the process of making this movie and then... you go your own way.
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It's fantastic to strive towards a nice life where you eat nice organic food and your children go to a nice school and you can afford nice clothes and nice perfume and the hypoallergenic make-up. But there's never a day goes by, and I mean this from the bottom of my heart, that I don't think about where I'm from.
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I like making films about old people because they are repositories of amazing stories that they tell well. And they're incredibly good telly.
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I don't look at my emails on the weekend or after 6 o'clock in the day.
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No one could possibly look all the time like my photographs. It is dreadfully hard to live up to them. They stare at me everywhere.
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I do tend to find when you're playing characters, often - just for the time you're playing them - there are sides of your personality that get stronger because you draw on them more.
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Let the moment go. . . . Don't forget it for a moment, though. Just remembering you've had an "and" when you're back to "or" makes the "or" mean more than it did before. . . . Now I understand! And it's time to leave the woods.
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I lay my eternal curse on whomsoever shall now or at any time hereafter make schoolbooks of my works and make me hated as Shakespeare is hated. My plays were not designed as instruments of torture. All the schools that lust after them get this answer, and will never get any other.
