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 juice everything! Whether it's beet, carrot, or apple, I'll juice it. I always keep brown rice in the kitchen. I'll often pack a cooler full of food to have throughout the day when I'm busy.
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I don't think Michael had to retire for us to get the spotlight, because when you win, it commands attention.
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My twitter fans are all pretty weird. A lot of them are kind of weirdly sexually aggressive. Some of them made me laugh and then I instantly tried to forget them, because I'd hate to find myself in a bar kind of drunk and accidentally use one.
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There were some parts of himself that he would probably never find because he dared not go looking for them in the shadows where she had cast them.
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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.
