George Bernard Shaw Quotes
My method of getting a play across the footlights is like a revolver shooting: every line has a bullet in it and comes with an explosion.
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All history is defined by shifting modes of reality and time and how things change. That's what I love about cinema. It changes in the moment.
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The only way I can be there and really get into the character is if I'm her.
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The smarter the journalists are, the better off society is. For to a degree, people read the press to inform themselves - and the better the teacher, the better the student body.
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The security link between us and Europe is very important for European security but also for our security.
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The time is right for electric cars - in fact the time is critical.
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I just always wanted to be left alone to go into a creative space.
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He who awaits much can expect little.
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The surveillance of ordinary people is far greater than I would have imagined and far greater than the American public has been able to debate.
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Ours is one continued struggle against degradation sought to be inflicted upon us by the European, who desire to degrade us to the level of the raw Kaffir, whose occupation is hunting and whose sole ambition is to collect a certain number of cattle to buy a wife with, and then pass his life in indolence and nakedness.
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I'm sick of having red hair, but people seem to like that aesthetic.
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As long I still have a breath left in me I will dedicate myself fully to China's reform.
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Police can only act on intelligence.
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One of the more difficult tasks for me as president was to decide on the issue of confirming capital punishment awarded by courts... to my surprise... almost all cases which were pending had a social and economic bias.
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We're not a fragile people. We're not a frightful people. Our power doesn't come from some self-declared savior promising that he alone can restore order as long as we do things his way. We don't look to be ruled.
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I enjoy stories about thin women - I read them frequently. I enjoy them; I root for those characters, but I always feel like there are enough of them out there and there are enough of them in the spotlight.
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What is American music? The most satisfying answer I've come across is that it was a kind of natural comfort with the vernacular which is diverse and regional; it's not one particular set of sounds.
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It was a scene I was really looking forward to, and one that I embraced, and when we were filming it, George got closer and closer and closer with that camera - he was practically up my nose for the final shot. So I knew it was a moment that I had to do my best to get right.
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Straight up. You can't mess with Jay when it's time to come play.
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Let us describe the education of our men. What then is the education to be? Perhaps we could hardly find a better than that which the experience of the past has already discovered, which consists, I believe, in gymnastic, for the body, and music for the mind.
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These infinitesimal distinctions between man and man are too paltry for an Omnipotent Being. How these madmen give themselves away! The real God taketh heed lest a sparrow fall. But the God created from human vanity sees no difference between an eagle and a sparrow.
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My opinion, ... ... is it was not caused by somebody's fingernail.
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I'm pretty comfortable stripping down to my underwear, as long as there's respect around me.
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There's to be a film about my life. I can give this as an exclusive now. Meryl Streep was offered the part but, no, I wanted Kate Winslet. Kylie Minogue is playing me in middle age. In old age, I'm not sure who's going to play me. I haven't got there yet. Perhaps Cate Blanchett. Or Jacki Weaver.
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My method of getting a play across the footlights is like a revolver shooting: every line has a bullet in it and comes with an explosion.
