George Bernard Shaw Quotes
We should have had socialism already, but for the socialists, am quite willing to drop the name if dropping it will help me to get the thing.
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I think it's always harder in a film to convey intimacy.
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I was born and brought up in Chennai, as the entire Telugu film industry was based there.
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Hip-hop in Africa has been very often a duplication of an American experience, but in a context that's totally alien to it.
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And just when we were at the end of our design process there was the news that the Italian government and the U.S. government had signed an agreement to fly the first Italian astronaut on that flight.
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Nobody was my support. You have to support yourself, and I think that is the beauty of being a woman. You can handle anything and be ten times better than men.
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The gap in education in this country, the unfairness of the schools, is one of the great unfairness in this society.
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I am not keen just for the position; I'm keen to help and to serve. If I can really avoid any bad things on my country, I will not hesitate one second.
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I never forget my old days and I never fly too high I have my feet fixed firmly on the ground!
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I think because people can't understand our style, they think it's a joke. Our music isn't intellectual - we make music for the common man.
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I think beautiful independent films are made, and I think they're as close to what theater can be because they're not loaded with all of the extra stuff. It's human, and it's more organic, but theater is very unique... It's a different connection altogether.
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You just write what you know, and I know what it's like to be a teenager in 1993,, and I'm a woman, so I'm definitely going to write from that point of view.
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It doesn't matter if you don't have a complete set of anything because repetition creates pattern, repetition creates pattern, repetition creates pattern.
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Prepare for death, if here at night you roam, and sign your will before you sup from home.
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Commitment. This is my favorite word because in some way, people who are committed are always much more interesting and much more reliable, and much more, I would say, deep than people who are not.
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I had a band with a girl in New York, and we would go around and do gigs. And then I happened to start getting work as an actress.
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One marvels why the middle classes still insist on so much discomfort for their children at such expense to themselves.
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I would probably do anything with David Mamet. He's so great. I just love his writing.
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Good food is healthy food. Food is supposed to sustain you so you can live better, not so you can eat more. Some people eat to live, and some people live to eat.
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It's hard to listen to your own record or your own songs and not pass judgment in a critical way just because it's your own thing. It's weird to sit down to listen to it to enjoy it.
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What is extraordinary about contemporary art is the energy - it has our energy. New energy. Pieces hundreds of years old are beautiful from an aesthetic point of view, but without our modern energy.
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I go out, but not too much. When I'm on tour, I just write a lot of music and sleep.
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For commercial books in a genre, readers' and editors' expectations may be fairly rigid. Some romance lines, for instance, issue fairly detailed writers' guidelines explaining exactly what must happen in a book they publish (and what must not).
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When you get a chance to work with Aaron Sorkin, you don't say no. You drop everything you're doing.
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We should have had socialism already, but for the socialists, am quite willing to drop the name if dropping it will help me to get the thing.
