- 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
- Politics
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- Nov 07, 2020
Scepticism and cynicism about politics is so great that one of the best counters to it is what you can do at a local level.
- Blockbuster
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- Nov 07, 2020
I love to watch low-budget indie artsy films, but I do also love the big blockbuster things. I would love to do that one day, do a Marvel film. That would be really great.
- Power
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- Nov 07, 2020
As an actor, you have to give up all control to the director. He's the boss and has all the power. I'm a control freak, so that's really hard for me. Then when you see a film later, it can be infuriating, really disappointing. I've been very lucky, though, and so many of my early experiences were great.
- Power
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- Nov 07, 2020
I ride my bike for transportation a great deal - occasionally I ride it for fun. But I also have a generator bike that's hooked up to my solar battery pack, so if I ride 15 minutes hard on my bike, that's enough energy to toast toast, or power my computer.
- Fortunate
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- Nov 07, 2020
I've been real fortunate to be on a lot of great teams.
- Drawing
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- Nov 07, 2020
I don't know where I got the idea for 'The Great Thumbprint Drawing Book'; I just told my brain to think of a book, and it did.
- Great Way
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- Nov 07, 2020
When people ask me what I miss most about the game, it's being in the locker room and getting to know the guys. Back in those days, we had roommates. We had to talk basketball and that was a great way to understand the game itself and form those lasting relationships.
- Change
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- Nov 07, 2020
A great attitude does much more than turn on the lights in our worlds; it seems to magically connect us to all sorts of serendipitous opportunities that were somehow absent before the change.
- Nov 07, 2020
I'm not a great writer.
- Good
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- Nov 07, 2020
Women basically want the same thing - a good passionate story, a great fantasy - and for our partners to do the laundry and the washing up.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I began writing in the mid-1960s, I thought it was not important for readers to know whether I was male or female. Also, I was a great admirer of E.B. White, so I may have thought that it would bring me luck to submit my first manuscript as 'E.L.' But if I were starting out today, I would use my first name.
- Man
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- Nov 07, 2020
What is wonderful about great literature is that it transforms the man who reads it towards the condition of the man who wrote.
- Enemies
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- Nov 07, 2020
Without a trace of irony I can say I have been blessed with brilliant enemies. I owe them a great debt, because they redoubled my energies and drove me in new directions.
- Good
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- Nov 07, 2020
I've found that good dialogue tells you not only what people are saying or how they're communicating but it tells you a great deal - by dialect and tone, content and circumstance - about the quality of the character.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020