George Bernard Shaw Quotes
We are told that when Jehovah created the world he saw that it was good what would he say now...
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At one point, I had a story accepted at the 'New Yorker,' which sent off weird bells in people when I told them - 'Oh,' they thought, 'now you are a writer' - where I really had been for the last 30-odd years.
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I don't mind talking about 'what might have been,' but I am not one to doubt or regret most of my decisions.
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I drive a car, like an adult. Not brilliantly. I'm not great.
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It would make everything I worked for meaningless if baseball is integrated but political parties were segregated.
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Show me an Irishman who can't tell a story – I don't think they exist.
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I did every job under the sun from bartending to ushering to temping.
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I used to come up with these crazy jobs to try and provoke my parents but they said, 'You can be anything you want.' So I was like, 'I want to be a garbage man' and they were like 'That's OK, we'll still love you!'
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In novels, and American novels in particular, it's not just about redemption, it's about forward movement and healing oneself. Americans are very big on getting better.
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I moved on from dice baseball to 'MLB: The Show' on PlayStation.
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If you wanted to build an Internet startup in 2005, you had to buy your own servers and hire someone to manage it. Now, that's unheard of.
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So if I get these actors for 30% of their price by coming in so late with an offer when they know they are not getting another offer then I do it this way.
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Poetry is that sentiment of the soul, or faculty of the mind, which enables its possessor to appreciate and realize the heights and depths of human experience. It is the power to feel pleasure or suffer pain in all its exquisiteness and intensity.
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I've always wanted to take up work that my heart is convinced about. And I shall continue to do so.
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Life is fleeting, and permanence in this world is something we all strive for. The best way to achieve permanence is through philanthropy.
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War is the continuation of politics by other means.
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When it is important for you to say something and you find a vehicle to say it, then go for it. It is so rare when that happens so I think every minute spent fighting for it is always worth it. Even if nothing ends up happening, it's still worth the fight.
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I absolutely have not spoken to Marvel. It doesn't mean that my team hasn't spoken to Marvel.
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There are quantities of human beings, but there are many more faces, for each person has several.
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Frankly, right is right and wrong is wrong, particularly when a parent is talking to a child. A bright line around moral responsibility is very important.
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To abstain from sin when one can no longer sin is to be forsaken by sin, not to forsake it.
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Unlimited exploitation of cheap labour-power is the sole foundation of their power to compete.
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Is the scraping off of a barnacle the destruction of a ship?
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I was allowed to write about race using an elevator metaphor because of Toni Morrison and David Bradley and Ralph Ellison. Hopefully, me being weird allows someone who's 16 and wanting to write inspires them to have their own weird take on the world, and they can see the different kinds of African American voices being published.
Colson Whitehead -
We are told that when Jehovah created the world he saw that it was good what would he say now...
