- Power
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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
- King
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- Nov 07, 2020
What began as a revolt in response to the King of Great Britain's repeated injuries against the colonies, soon became a passionate and glorious call to fight for the beginnings of a new country.
- Everything
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- Nov 07, 2020
Up there with my awards, I have a great big statue of Groucho Marx, just to put everything in perspective.
- Outside
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- Nov 07, 2020
I would encourage more development in the boroughs outside of Manhattan as well. I think it's great that this natural emergence has occurred in the lower part of Midtown, but there's tremendous potential in Brooklyn, Queens, the Bronx, and Staten Island as well.
- Mother
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- Nov 07, 2020
My natural mother passed away from cystic fibrosis when I was a toddler, so I feel a great deal of empathy for people who are struggling with disease.
- Know
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- Nov 07, 2020
It is of great use to the sailor to know the length of his line, though he cannot with it fathom all the depths of the ocean.
- End Of The Day
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- Nov 07, 2020
Realistically, it's the great truism that screenwriters are fungible, that at the end of the day a studio is not going to want to fire a movie star. And they're really not going to want to fire a star director because the director has the hand on the tiller of a ship.
- New
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- Nov 07, 2020
Honestly, not being evasive, but the great thing about Bond is that I have fifty years of movies - 23 movies and all the Ian Fleming novels and short stories, all of which are fodder. And when I'm working on the new Bond, I'm constantly going back to Fleming and the other movies - what are the bits and pieces, what are the resonances?
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
With the Germans, the sovereignty resided in the great assembly of the people.
- Dog
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- Nov 07, 2020
Many years ago, I was a producer on a movie called 'My Dog Skip.' Willie Morris, the great southern writer, had written the book. We had adapted it and taken 17 years of his life and compressed it into one year.
- Good
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- Nov 07, 2020
You set out to tell a good story. You don't do it because there is a deep message involved, because the movie is almost always bad when you do that. Your job No. 1 is for it to be entertaining, and if it's inspiring, that is great, too.
- Nov 07, 2020
Experience is a great teacher.
- Better
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm honestly not a great gift giver. I could give better - my girlfriends have always complained about that.
- Go
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- Nov 07, 2020
Yeah, that came out of a reading. It was great. It's such a fun crew to be with, and we all went out the night before and that really encouraged us to go out and get drunk.
- Nov 07, 2020
I had a great movement teacher - he showed me how to walk so I wasn't becoming like a cartoon.
- Most
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- Nov 07, 2020