George Bernard Shaw Quotes
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Christianity, if false, is of no importance, and if true, of infinite importance. The only thing it cannot be is moderately important.
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If I do something caring for a friend, I have no doubt in my mind they would do it for me.
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I am very lucky I got fans, and I interact with them personally. I know that they have poured their love on me unconditionally, and all I can do is work hard and be kind to them.
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I have no sense of direction at all. Thank the Lord for my TomTom, otherwise I'd spend my whole life lost.
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I have always loathed working out.
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Time was God's first creation.
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I've written a screenplay that is a series of monologues and songs; they form this sort of human tapestry across time and place. The form is strange, but I find it really fascinating.
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I listen to music to when I'm feeling a certain way or to make myself feel a certain way. So why not make my own music inspired by true emotions?
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There's always a version of me who is the narrator. And I make myself look better than other people.
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When you're a woman with a certain amount of fame and money, you are never certain what someone's motives are.
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Faith Hill is a big role model.
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When I do write, it happens really easily. I'll just kind of sing along to whatever I'm playing, then find a line to build off of, then sit down and write. When I do write, I take care of business!
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I like naturally occurring film grain, and what happens to film when it's under- and over-exposed.
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Going out for rides with my friends and having lunch or dinner at a roadside hotel - that's my favourite time-pass.
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The advice of the elders to young men is very apt to be as unreal as a list of the hundred best books.
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I made a good living for a teenager. And I had to learn all different kinds of music - jazz, swing, Motown, pop - and that inspired what kind of music I started to write.
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Blacks in the Caribbean, Britain, Canada and sub-Saharan Africa as well as in the United States have low IQ scores relative to whites.
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I was, if you like, a successful schoolboy in that I had a degree of talent in all the required things that make you a success at school.
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In a sense, 'Schmidt' is the most Omaha of my films. But have I gotten it right? I'm not sure. Did Fellini get Rome right? Did Ozu get Tokyo right?
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It's hard to have money in the bank and want something and then not get it.
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The worst side effect of wealth is the social associations it forces on its victims, as people with big houses end up socializing with other people with big houses.
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I may be biting off more than I can chew, but with 'The Simpsons' and with 'Futurama,' what I'm trying to do in the guise of light entertainment, if this is possible - is nudge people, jostle them a little, wake them up to some of the ways in which we're being manipulated and exploited.
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So give me a turbulent world as opposed to a quiet world and I'll take the turbulent one.
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The world is populated in the main by people who should not exist...
