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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San Francisco has only one drawback—‘tis hard to leave.
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Love is making space in your life for someone else.
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Satan will be ready to help forward such thoughts as a fit medium to lift thee up , and slacken thy care in duty for the future. Such discoveries do indeed bear witness to the truth of thy grace, but not to the degree and measure of it. The weak child may be, yea, is, oftener in the lap than the strong.
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An hour before I got cast in [Victorious] they called and asked if it'd be okay for them to do ANYTHING they wanted with my hair, even a blue mohawk or a bald head and I eagerly said yes!
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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.
