- Opportunity
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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
- Beauty
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- Nov 07, 2020
If you drive to, say, Shenandoah National Park, or the Great Smoky Mountains, you'll get some appreciation for the scale and beauty of the outdoors. When you walk into it, then you see it in a completely different way. You discover it in a much slower, more majestic sort of way.
- Disappointment
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- Nov 07, 2020
America is a great disappointment to me. As I said in one of my books, other societies create civilisations; we build shopping malls.
- Everything
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm a great believer that you had to do everything you've done to have got to where you are.
- Virtue
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- Nov 07, 2020
Cheapness is a great virtue.
- Because
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm a great coder. But I am not pushing that so much anymore because there are thousands of great coders.
- Pictures
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- Nov 07, 2020
Carnegie Hall is as good as they say it is. It's not like Stonehenge which looks great in books but then you go there and it's a pile of rocks next to a highway. There's actually a highway right next to it, but you don't see that in pictures.
- Nov 07, 2020
Podcasting is great. Total freedom.
- Nothing
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- Nov 07, 2020
Fortunately, I get asked to play - regardless of how big or small they are - some really interesting people who are part of great stories. So, as an actor, there's really nothing better.
- Nov 07, 2020
When the scenes are written really great, we as actors try not to mess them up by getting in the way.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
My experience is that books take on a life of their own and create their own energy. I've represented books that have been sold for very little money and gone on to great glory, and I've seen books sold for an enormous amount of money published to very little response.
- Music
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was pretty strict in high school about who I would listen to. Musicians like Neil Young, Cat Stevens, Bob Dylan, Joni Mitchell... who were, in my opinion, great writers. The music mattered, but it held hands with the lyrics, and the personality was, overall, unsullied.
- My Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
I spent the first 33 years of my life with secrets, and lots of them. I spent a great deal of energy worrying over what people thought and obscuring the things I was ashamed of... trying to appear what I thought was normal.
- Great Service
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- Nov 07, 2020