George Bernard Shaw Quotes
When the world goes mad, one must accept madness as sanity; since sanity is, in the last analysis, nothing but the madness on which the whole world happens to agree.
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Memory is a complicated thing, a relative to truth, but not its twin.
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If I categorized home runs that I've seen, without a doubt the monumental one is Henry's... but I've seen a lot of classic, great home runs. Gibson's was probably the most theatrical home run I've ever seen.
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Don't try to guess what it is people want and give it to them. Don't ask for a show of hands. Try your best to write what you like, what you think your friends would like and what you think your father would like and then cross your fingers... The most valuable thing you have is your own voice.
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I have in sincerity pledged myself to your service, as so many of you are pledged to mine. Throughout all my life and with all my heart I shall strive to be worthy of your trust.
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I think one of the great things about being a musician is that you never stop learning.
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When I had no money, I would find out which friend had work and money at that point in time and would go and stay with him for a week. All of us theatre guys did that.
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I don't know how to make Harper and Alloy want me, not just my name.
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We're newspaper junkies; I can't imagine life without a newspaper.
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If you're looking for immediate rewards, you're only looking for the money.
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When you get to the point where you're established enough that people link you with something, especially being an action hero babe, it's awesome. Because then you can fight the battles and have the crossbows and wrestle with swords and ride the horses because you're already believable; people see you in that genre.
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I connect with people on a daily basis.
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Anybody that wants to walk out that door and leave home for a few months and rely on themselves instead of fate might have some interesting stories to tell.
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In fact I enjoyed every minute of my life at King's, especially the discovery of French and German literature.
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We women are going to bring change. We are speaking up for girls' rights, but we must not behave like men, like they have done in the past.
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God has just given me such an amazing journey and able to play; it's been so much fun. I'm having a blast!
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On my fifth film, it was then that I stopped dancing.
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I've had bad luck with both my wives. The first one left me and the second one didn't.
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Do you know why language manifests itself the way it does in my work? It's because I understand short attention spans.
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You love who you love, and I can't help that I like guys.
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I think I was in 10th or 11th grade before I ever read a book for pleasure.
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There was something in me, even leaving fifth grade, that hit me and said, "I have to get out of here. I don't know where, and I don't know what else I can do but I'm really not going to end up like any of these people."
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One actor in my life is enough, and that's me. With actors, it's too easy to go into this world of complaining. Someone will always be better, richer, more loved, do more work. Those dynamics don't interest me. The friends I hang out with, we create our own work rather than complain about acting.
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Fortune reigns in gifts of the world.
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When the world goes mad, one must accept madness as sanity; since sanity is, in the last analysis, nothing but the madness on which the whole world happens to agree.
