- Know
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- Nov 07, 2020
Great Quotes
Quotes on great moments and discoveries.
These quotes use 'great' to describe very different things - a lifelong search for spiritual mystery, nostalgic memories of finding great music collections while living abroad, and an honest mix of great and difficult experiences tied to identity and pride. Related reading: Good Quotes.
- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
- Look
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I look back at it, I'm mostly amazed at how poorly it was shot. David Kelley is a great writer, and I thought the scripts were great, but it just looks so cheap.
- Failure
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- Nov 07, 2020
I've had great success and I've had catastrophic failure. It's really how you handle the rough stuff that defines you, I think.
- Earth
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- Nov 07, 2020
I've been a big believer in musicians turned actor, going back to Sinatra winning the Oscar for 'From Here To Eternity.' David Bowie in 'Man Who Fell to Earth,' Kris Kristofferson's been great in a bunch of films. Liza Minnelli, Barbra Streisand, Mariah Carey, I thought was great in 'Precious.'
- Love
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- Nov 07, 2020
I had great luck with Tim McGraw twice in 'Friday Night Lights' and 'The Kingdom.' I love finding off-beat casting and finding someone you know in one way and you reinvent them in another way. I like doing that as a director.
- Nov 07, 2020
I don't think about awards when I set out to do something. If that happens, it's great.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
Reality TV finds talented people. There are no scripts. The editing is what it's all about. Great editing makes those shows.
- Power
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- Nov 07, 2020
The London I entered was a great bustling metropolitan city at war, an imperial power fighting to hold on to that empire. And the teeming colonial subjects of that empire did not, on the whole, want England to lose that war, but they also did not want the empire to emerge unchanged from it. This, for very many of us, was the hard dilemma.
- Failure
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- Nov 07, 2020
My great fear has always been complete and utter failure. Hence, you see, all the dispossessed people in my fiction, and why I try to earn as much money as I can. It's a defense. I don't enjoy it or do anything with it.
- Just
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- Nov 07, 2020
I just wanted to be an ordinary, middle-class person. When I was at Cambridge, I made great efforts to lose the last remnants of my Cockney accent.
- History
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- Nov 07, 2020
It may seem unfashionable to say so, but historians should seize the imagination as well as the intellect. History is, in a sense, a story, a narrative of adventure and of vision, of character and of incident. It is also a portrait of the great general drama of the human spirit.
- Long
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- Nov 07, 2020
I refuse to be typecast, and I'll have a go at anything so long as it's different, challenging, hard work and demands great versatility.
- Never
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- Nov 07, 2020
I don't know if 1300 players could really participate in the selection of a commissioner, and I've never given it a great deal of thought. I think it's a logical point they could make, but it's only an academic one.
- Difference
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- Nov 07, 2020
The difference of great players is at a certain point in a match they raise their level of play and maintain it. Lesser players play great for a set, but then less.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
I've got a great wife, a great life.
- Great Guy
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- Nov 07, 2020
I never wanted to be the great guy or the colorful guy or the interesting guy. I wanted to be the guy who won titles.
- Great Relationship
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- Nov 07, 2020
You know, I think that President Obama is a person who has a great relationship with a number of people. Colin Powell does, too. I think Colin Powell is a fine American, a great leader and sees things in President Obama that he agrees with. He's entitled to have his opinion.
- Kids
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- Nov 07, 2020