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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To put me through school my morn had to work, so I was a latchkey kid.
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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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Stay away from drugs. They're not worth it. I've tried, but there's none of them that's worth it.
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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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When a man tells you what people are saying about you, tell him what people are saying about him; that will immediately take his mind off your troubles.
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Outside the golf course, I feel the pressure, and I feel what everybody else is feeling. But on the golf course, it's just the golf ball and clubs. And when I have that, it just puts a lot of pressure off of me. It just makes me very calm looking at it, yeah.
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Readers of novels are a strange folk, upon whose probable or even possible tastes no wise book-maker would ever venture to bet.
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I've never really not played the piano. I've played it since I was six or seven and it's something I've always done - I don't think I could ever really play anything else, I would be a bit out of it without a piano.
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I don't know how to play easy.
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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.
