George Bernard Shaw Quotes
It is always necessary to overstate a cast startlingly to make people sit up and listen to it, and to frighten them into acting on it.
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We feel and know that we are eternal.
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I used to skip breakfast, but eating gets my metabolism going, so I burn more calories all day.
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One of the best pieces of advice I ever got was from a horse master. He told me to go slow to go fast. I think that applies to everything in life. We live as though there aren't enough hours in the day but if we do each thing calmly and carefully we will get it done quicker and with much less stress.
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Some editors are failed writers, but so are most writers.
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It's strange that words are so inadequate. Yet, like the asthmatic struggling for breath, so the lover must struggle for words.
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Coming from TV and film, rule number one is that you always service the main character first and foremost. If that's not working, you've got nothing.
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God never gives us discernment in order that we may criticize, but that we may intercede.
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Grandmothers are to life what the Ph.D. is to education. There is nothing you can feel, taste, expect, predict, or want that the grandmothers in your family do not know about in detail.
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What is called liberality is often no more than the vanity of giving, of which some persons are fonder than of what they give.
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We pay a high price for intelligence. Wisdom hurts.
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Never any knowledge was delivered in the same order it was invented.
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One does not have humor. It has you.
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We are often jealous of our little secrets, though to another ear they generally convey neither profit nor entertainment.
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I was raised a Christian. I'd like to think I have Christian values. I don't attend church.
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Many organizations are now trying to walk under the banner of The Learning Organization, realizing that knowledge is our most important product ... But the only place that I've seen it is in the Army. As one colonel said, "We realized a while ago that it's better to learn than be dead."
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The starting point of great success in your life begins, in the simplest terms, when you discipline yourself to think and talk about only the things you want and refuse to think and talk about anything you don't want.
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The love of life is necessary to the vigorous prosecution of any undertaking.
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I've done movies where I've had to cast actors and teach them to rap, and cast rappers and teach them to act.
