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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To gastroenterologists, the concept of a germ causing ulcers was like saying that the Earth is flat.
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I love to write.
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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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Chet loved artists. He did. But he was caught up in the system. He had two hats. He had to have 'em because he did two things: he was an artist, and he was an executive.
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I try hard to convince them it's important - but there's a history of discomfort with minorities voting in some parts of this country, so most especially the older people have to get accustomed to it.
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Symbolism is alright in 'fiction,' but I tell true life stories simply about what happened to people I knew.
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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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My mom is not trying to live vicariously through me.
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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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I'm supporting the School for Creative Startups because the project's ambition - to boost innovation and the culture of entrepreneurship - is something I feel strongly about.
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I am not an 'unplug' person. I like being plugged in.
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I left things out - my motivations, my history, my emotional responses - because I am not good at understanding them or writing about them. I tried and it was generally boring and always unconvincing. Most importantly I wanted to try to place Afghans and Afghanistan in the foreground rather than my own character.
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Those who would extirpate evil from the world know little of human nature. As well might punch be palatable without souring as existence agreeable without care.
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To me the sole hope of human salvation lies in teaching.
