George Bernard Shaw Quotes
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My mother told me I should be a secretary, but I wanted to be an actress from when I was very young.
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I fell in love with acting, just going to a lot of plays. My parents went to a lot of plays, and I went to a lot of schools that would get plays for kids.
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If I can hit No. 1 on the 'New York Times' best-seller list, I'm thinking of having the entire list tattooed on my body somewhere. It would be fabulous.
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You are where you are today because you have chosen to be there.
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Well, Freddie Mercury is a really huge rock star in my head. I've always thought he was just so tough and such an amazing entertainer, really a contradiction in many ways as well. So he was incredible.
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I know a lot of actors who get a part and then they dissect it and they want to change it and they want to add stuff. I'm always amazed and so impressed by actors who do that.
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People work hard.
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There's a fine line between playing through things and sitting out. I was always on the side of, 'I'm going to play through it.' It's probably good at times, bad at times, but for an athlete to always try to be there and play through things, from a teammate's perspective, it speaks volumes. Now that I look back, mentally it makes you tougher.
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I'm very happy to be employed. I always contend that in show business that if you're employed, then you're successful.
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When you catch other people with a sound like yours, that's when you know you did something.
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Christians should be ready for a change because Jesus was the greatest changer in history.
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As U.S. citizens, Puerto Rico has paid their part.
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We all have our own little thing, I think.
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I confess I enjoy democracy immensely. It is incomparably idiotic, and hence incomparably amusing.
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Let women issue a declaration of independence sexually, and absolutely refuse to cohabit with men until they are acknowledged as equals in everything, and the victory would be won in a single week.
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Do you know what it's like to love and be alone?
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Christians have no greater ally than Israel.
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I think I'm a romantic person, yeah.
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We want all the information because we do intend to get to the bottom of why some of these insurance policies have lapsed.
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I believe that this idea of story or myth or this thing that Joseph Campbell writes about is sort of an inter-connective spiritual force - like The Force in 'Star Wars' - where it doesn't matter where you were raised, or what your background is, there are certain elements of story that totally appeal to you.
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When the audition for 'Cats' came up, even though I'd been making pop records, it felt like something I was attracted to.
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The same is true of Love, and the instinctive desire to please those whom we love. The teacher who succeeds in getting herself loved by the pupils will obtain results which one of a more forbidding temperament finds it impossible to secure.
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To me the sole hope of human salvation lies in teaching.
