No one has ever used historical examples, near or remote, with the detail, precision, and directness to be found in every page of Shaw.
You can't have a tin can tied to your tail and go through life pretending it isn't there.
The truth of anything at all doesn't lie in someone's account of it. It lies in all the small facts of the time. An advertisement in a paper, the sale of a house, the price of a ring.
Horse sense is the instinct that keeps horses from betting on men.
It is the utterly destructive quality. When you say vanity, you are thinking of the kind that admires itself in mirrors and buys things to deck itself out in. But that is merely personal conceit. Real vanity is something quite different. A matter not of person but of personality. Vanity says, "I must have this because I am me. " It is a frightening thing because it is incurable.
Nothing great ever came out of common sense.
Most people's first books are their best anyways. It's the one they wanted most to write.
It’s important for people to know that I’m still focused on football. . . I’m handling my business to get ready for the next season.
When you begin to believe you have license because you are a special person breathing special oxygen, that's when you're in big trouble. That's the road to insanity. And a lot of people in the studios are like that. They believe that they are special. I do think actors are blessed, or cursed, with maybe a slightly heightened awareness, which you have to use.
He travels the fastest who travels alone.
Fulfilling your vision for the best year of your life requires thought and introspection. It is not much different than planning an awesome vacation. It takes time, discussion, planning, decision making, and an array of other skills.