- Good Movies
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- Nov 07, 2020
Good Quotes
Quotes on what it means to be good.
This page rounds up quotes using 'good' in different senses - the simplicity behind good mathematical solutions, the self-importance that can come with good intellectual work, and a wry line about baseball being kinder after retirement. Related pages include Good Luck Quotes.
- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
- Book
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- Nov 07, 2020
It felt like the first thing, but when I first started out, I got a job adapting a book by Russell Banks called 'Rule Of The Bone.' I didn't do a very good job. I didn't really know what I was doing in general, let alone how to adapt a book.
- Mind
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think my job is to try and be as honest as I can with what is in my mind and how I feel - I think that's what you're supposed to do, if you're a good writer. So I try to do that. I know I do that. I do do that.
- Guitar
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- Nov 07, 2020
My voice is my improvisational instrument, the melody instrument. The guitar is harmonic structure. I'm not a good enough guitarist to improvise on it.
- Job
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- Nov 07, 2020
I don't very often think I've done a good job. I don't like the majority of what I do. I shouldn't say I don't like it, but I'm not satisfied with almost everything that I do.
- Nov 07, 2020
I'm a total slave to a good story.
- Obstacles
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- Nov 07, 2020
The characters I've played that I like the most are people that have a lot of obstacles. They have a lot of bad things going on. They're seeking to do something good amidst all the detritus around them, and they're aware of how badly they've screwed it up. That kind of self-awareness is tragic.
- Look
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- Nov 07, 2020
I just keep following the good writing. I'm not good enough to make bad writing look good. Some people can, and I admire them for it, but I cannot. I will go down with the ship.
- Good Thing
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- Nov 07, 2020
I actually did not like to run. It was probably my least favorite thing that I had to do, and then in 1999, I was diagnosed as a type 1 diabetic. It was really strange. One good thing to do for diabetes is to exercise. I don't really like gyms anymore, and I travel quite a bit, so I realized that you can just take shoes and shorts and run anywhere.
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- Nov 07, 2020
How often we fail to realize our good fortune in living in a country where happiness is more than a lack of tragedy.
- Feel
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- Nov 07, 2020
You know you've read a good book when you turn the last page and feel a little as if you have lost a friend.
- Grateful
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- Nov 07, 2020
You define a good flight by negatives: you didn't get hijacked, you didn't crash, you didn't throw up, you weren't late, you weren't nauseated by the food. So you are grateful.
- Made
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- Nov 07, 2020
The Japanese have perfected good manners and made them indistinguishable from rudeness.
- Nov 07, 2020