George Bernard Shaw Quotes
Never believe anything a writer tells you about himself. A man comes to believe in the end the lies he tells himself about himself.
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As people's opportunities to succumb to confirmation bias increases online - only seeking out information that confirms their prejudices - ignorance, extremism and close-mindedness have continued to rise unabated.
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I was a dispatcher, flat-tire fixer, changed the oil, fixed the fan belts. There was nothing too good for me.
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The senior members of the royal family work very hard and I don't think people quite realise that.
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I get inspiration from literally everything and anything. I take inspiration from people, relationships, stories, and I take inspiration from movies I see, books I read and songs I hear.
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You try to pull away the experiences until you get to the core of humanity, and you find that light that exists in everybody. It's that light that I'm searching for in all of my work - is that connective thing, that ether that enters all of us - you know what I mean? That's a part of God.
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Information of fundamental importance to the general problem of atomic structure has resulted from systematic studies of the cosmic radiation carried out by the Wilson cloud-chamber method.
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When the whole world reads your books, is there any other happiness for a writer? I am happy that my books are read in 57 languages. But I am focused on Istanbul not because of Istanbul but because of humanity. Everyone is the same in the end.
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I was told that, when 'Betrayal' was being produced by one of the provincial companies in England, the two actors playing those roles actually went into a pub one day and played that scene as if it were really happening to them. The people around them became very uncomfortable.
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A lie to me is a dream that might come true.
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Movies can't ruin books. They can only ruin movies.
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I think to be Miss U.S.A., first of all, you need to represent everybody, all of us here.
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What distinguishes modern art from the art of other ages is criticism.
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Because many of us have been in game shows for some time, there's always someone around who can share a story of Johnny O or Jay Stewart that I never heard.
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I was fairly solitary. I didn't like structured learning. People didn't seem to be my cup of tea.
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You've got to realize. In the western world, regardless of what color you are, what title the music is, it's all played by the same notes.
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Just to stir things up seemed a great reward in itself.
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I love how Vietnamese cuisine always tastes like flowers, and how they had the ingenious idea of pairing that floral flavor with seafood: such a combination shouldn't work as well as it does.
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I'm truly passionate about basketball. I'm not as passionate about baseball as I am about basketball, but I watch baseball and I watch football. I love sports in general.
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I want to be able, as days go by, always to look myself straight in the eye.
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The military is a machine of war. Not a law enforcement agency.
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I do not believe in censorship, but I believe we already have censorship in what is called marketing theory, namely the only information we get in mainstream media is for profit.
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It's so funny when people who are not used to making movies get into it. You just can't believe how insufferably boring it is. Waiting around and doing these lines over and over and finally having to go in and loop the lines and dub them.
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Never believe anything a writer tells you about himself. A man comes to believe in the end the lies he tells himself about himself.
