- People
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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
- Great Way
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- Nov 07, 2020
I needed to do a play. I needed to learn how to act again, in a focused, all-encompassing way, and a really challenging play is a great way to do that.
- Work
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- Nov 07, 2020
I don't connect to a certain girliness or talking about girly things - I feel unauthentic and uncomfortable in that world - maybe I'm just more butch than I realize! I have, however, been fortunate to have a number of great girlfriends. You don't meet as many girls as you do guys in my line of work, so I do cherish my friendships.
- Cool
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm friends with Elizabeth Banks - she's a great actress but not actressy at all. She's very cool. I adore her.
- English Countryside
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- Nov 07, 2020
The English tradition offers the great tapestry novel, where you have the emotional aspect of a detective's personal life, the circumstances of the crime and, most important, the atmosphere of the English countryside that functions as another character.
- Good
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- Nov 07, 2020
I used to say, 'Man, I think I'd be a really good dad. I'll be a great provider. I'm funny; I'll go on trips with them - I'll do all sorts of stuff.' But the momming? I'm not made for that. I have a really good mom; I know what she put into it.
- Funny Thing
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- Nov 07, 2020
The funny thing about voice over is you can go in in sweatpants and have your hair all messed up, and no one will see you, and you can still deliver the same great product.
- Dearly
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- Nov 07, 2020
Adversity is a great teacher, but this teacher makes us pay dearly for its instruction; and often the profit we derive, is not worth the price we paid.
- Doctor Who
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- Nov 07, 2020
In the history of medicine, it is not always the great scientist or the learned doctor who goes forward to discover new fields, new avenues, new ideas.
- Never
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- Nov 07, 2020
Red carpets are awful. They're like a kind of purgatory - you stand there, and there are cameras flashing everywhere. One of my first red carpets was in Cannes for 'The Great Gatsby,' and I'd never seen anything like it.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm not a great sleeper. I try and do too many things every day. I think that I get very obsessive about parts and projects. I do let them kind of consume me, and when there's something on the horizon that I want to be involved in, I just kind of hurtle myself towards it.
- New
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- Nov 07, 2020
In the 1970s, New York was known as a place of great artistic production. Slowly, my city went from a place of production to a place of consumption.
- Nov 07, 2020
I think idiosyncrasy is great.
- Hope
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- Nov 07, 2020
A lot of people have great hope, and a lot of people who have great hope live. And, some of them who have great hope die. So it's not that hope is going to save you.
- Good Ideas
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- Nov 07, 2020
I know how to take good ideas and turn them into sensible law at great odds.
- Plan
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- Nov 07, 2020
I just thought Harvard sounded great. So let's see if I get in. I didn't really have a big back-up plan.
- Cockney
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- Nov 07, 2020