George Bernard Shaw Quotes

All great truths begin as blasphemies.

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• In general, I find that for videos the acting is more realistic.

  

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• If you stop being scared, that's when entropy sets in, and you may as well go home.

  

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• I live in the suburbs, the final battleground of the American dream, where people get married and have kids and try to scratch out a happy life for themselves.

  

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• I'm not the most technical producer, so the weird mixes and blown-out sound happen naturally.

  

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• Adding 'just kidding' doesn't make it okay to insult the Principal.

  

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• I am inspired by anything beautiful. Sometime it's a pair of eyes or flowing gorgeous hair, other times it's the sky or a sunset. I've been inspired by supple skin or the texture of a soft shirt.

  

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• Whenever I'm caught between two evils, I take the one I've never tried.

  

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• If some student came up and wanted to know where to study painting, you'd want to suggest someplace, but there's no place. I wouldn't know where to send a student to study.

  

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• It's not like I didn't do anything for 10 years and chose a new profession. I've been on the ice a lot. I'm not an outsider.

  

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• There is only one step from the sublime to the ridiculous.

  

  Napoleon Bonaparte
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• Preachers at black churches are the last people left in the English-speaking world who know the schemes and tropes of classical rhetoric: parallelism, antithesis, epistrophe, synecdoche, metonymy, periphrasis, litotes - the whole bag of tricks.

  

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• Playing the priest on 'Oz' was a fantastic experience. I was very lucky.

  

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• If you learn one thing from having lived through decades of changing views, it is that all predictions are necessarily false.

  

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• The vegetable life does not content itself with casting from the flower or the tree a single seed, but it fills the air and earth with a prodigality of seeds, that, if thousands perish, thousands may plant themselves, that hundreds may come up, that tens may live to maturity; that, at least one may replace the parent.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson
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• I'm tall, fat, rather bald, red-faced, double-chinned, black-haired, have a deep voice, and wear glasses for reading.

  

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• Fear may very well be a caveman fear of the predator, of the giant lizard chasing them - maybe that's what Steven Spielberg connects with so well in Lost World.

  

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• There are a lot of magazines that are still sort of... that only cater to a certain demographic and only put certain people on their covers.

  

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• I had a lot of fun in Cambodia, much more so in Cambodia than Vietnam.

  

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• Network shows shoot so fast, so you kind of have to just go with your instinct.

  

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• My mom gets so upset at me when I say stuff in the press about anything political, and it drives me crazy because I say to my mom: 'I can't be on the side of any sort of war and I'm not going to be.'

  

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• The shows I've been working on, especially 'Parenthood' and 'Friday Night Lights,' I think are completely character-driven stories. I think, for most writers, that's a privilege to be telling those kinds of stories. It's erroneous to me.

  

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• Diogenes the Cynic, when a little before his death he fell into a slumber, and his physician rousing him out of it asked him whether anything ailed him, wisely answered, 'Nothing, sir; only one brother anticipates another,-Sleep before Death.'

  

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• When you put on the headset, you want to be tricked; you want your mind to believe you are actually teleported to this new virtual place.

  

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• All great truths begin as blasphemies.

  

  George Bernard Shaw
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