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George Bernard Shaw Quotes

The secret of being miserable is to have leisure to bother about whether you are happy or not. The cure for it is occupation.

George Bernard Shaw

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: dramatist
Nationality: irish
Birth: July 26, 1856 - November 2, 1950

Topics

Happy You Secret Miserable Leisure

However difficult it may be to bring it about, some form of world government, with agreed international law and means of enforcing the law, is inevitable.

Government Law World Inevitable May

One exercise I always do when I'm getting to know a character is ask her to tell me her secrets. Sit down with a pen and paper, and start with, 'I never told anybody...' and go from there, writing in the voice of your character.

Jennifer McMahon

Character Me Writing Start Voice

Acting has changed since the nineteen-forties.

Robert Gottlieb

Acting Changed Since

Slavery was ungodly, unrighteous, and unbiblical.

I hate failure and that divorce was a Number One failure in my eyes. It was the worst period of my life. Neither Desi nor I have been the same since, physically or mentally.

Life Failure Eyes Hate My Life Same

In 1928, radio networks like the National Broadcasting Company (NBC) and Columbia Broadcasting System (CBS) extended nationwide - any major political address could expect to reach forty million listeners.

Reach Political Company Forty Radio

Bob Dylan was the source of pop music's unpredictability in the Sixties. Never as big a record-seller as commonly imagined, his importance was first aesthetic and social, and then as an influence.

Music Influence Aesthetic Never Big

Music is the soundtrack of your life.

Life Music Your Soundtrack

Of course we are looking to win support across every section of society. We win support by speaking to voters on the issues they most care about.

Douglas Alexander

Support Win Society Looking Care

Sometimes people break your heart enough that it's not heartbreaking anymore.

Heart People Enough Sometimes Break

People... need a time to laugh. It's up to us to bonk ourselves on the head and slip on a banana peel so the average guy can say, 'I may be bad, honey, but I'm not as much of an idiot as that guy on the screen.'

Time People Laugh Idiot Honey Bad

I may be a Jewish scientist, but I would be tickled silly if one day I were reincarnated as a Baptist preacher.

Day Silly One Day Jewish May Would

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