George Bernard Shaw Quotes
Marriage is good enough for the lower classes: they have facilities for desertion that are denied to us.
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I don't want to come off like the jealous brother who wasn't getting the attention, but it was like no one was really into me anyway. I wasn't really a priority.
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When you sing gospel you have a feeling there is a cure for what's wrong.
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I've been working on this feature script for Master Class, a play by Terrence McNally that won a lot of Tonys.
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I feel like I have so many middle-aged women who look up to me.
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A damn independent boy; independent as a hog on ice.
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I can speak French, understand Gaelic and know my history. That's the training music has given me.
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You have to relish the challenge of television.
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Although sometimes I might sound sometimes idealist or too optimistic but I think my father used to say to me in everything bad there's something good that is going to come out of it and there will always be a tomorrow.
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Where do you get lumpy tiles? Well, of course, you don't. But I get a lot of toilets, and so you just dispatch a toilet with a hammer, and then you have lumpy tiles.
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When you're bad in the NBA, you're in the lottery. When you're great in college, you get multiple lottery picks.
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It's not like I have the most perfect body in the world. I'm a normal girl.
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When you try to find funding for a VVA function, it doesn't seem like it's any trouble at all. People come out of the woodwork with their money to help out because we went over and fought a war.
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Mike Leigh taught me about making choices - as an actor, you choose between being honest and clever, and with Mike, it's always about being honest. I learned how to behave on a film set from Jim Broadbent. He was a great example of someone with a fantastic career who kept his feet on the ground.
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Let blockheads read what blockheads wrote.
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I would be happy if people just called me an actor.
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We have been learning since we were children how to make money, buy things, build things. The whole education system is set up to teach us how to think, not to feel.
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We eat animals because they taste good. And if that's O.K., what's wrong with wearing fur? We need as a society to think seriously about our institutionalized animal use.
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Long for me as I for you, forgetting, what will be inevitable, the long black aftermath of pain.
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The days of the painter at the Bauhaus appear to be truly over. They are estranged from the actual core of present activities, and their influence is more restricting than inspiring.
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I would hope to inspire in my listeners a feeling of freedom - of speech, thought and political activity.
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A wedding dress is both an intimate and personal for a woman - it must reflect the personality and style of the bride.
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That I am today the face of Louis Vuitton almost seems like a twist of fate. You dream back to front, wanting the rewards before putting the work in. And then you work, get on with life, and just sometimes these childhood dreams have a way of catching up with you. This is a true privilege for which I am eternally grateful.
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I look at myself as someone who has been very lucky - my job is also what I enjoy most in the world, and I can make my life doing it.
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Marriage is good enough for the lower classes: they have facilities for desertion that are denied to us.
