Jeffrey Wright Quotes

The great thing about movies is that they're collaborative. And the worst thing is that they're collaborative.

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• To be a great painter means to be a great poet: someone who transcends the limits of his language.

  

  Octavio Paz
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  • Language
  • Limits

• We live in a fast-paced culture where we're asked to make snap decisions all day long, so I suppose cash-point donations feed into the immediacy of our life experience. So it's a great idea. But I think it needs careful handling.

  

  Tamsin Greig
  • Life
  • Great
  • Long

• Bollywood music is definitely a big part of Indian music and can be a great way to introduce people to the sound. But I hope to continue to incorporate other types of Indian music into my work.

  

  A. R. Rahman
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  • Work
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• I've found that men I've dated who are in the same business can be really competitive. I've found a great group of girlfriends in the same business who aren't competitive, but a few times guys have started comparing careers and it has been... challenging.

  

  Taylor Swift
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  • Men
  • Business

• My parents divorced when I was very, very young, but they maintained an incredibly amicable relationship. They were great partners, they were great parents, and they were great friends throughout my whole life until I was about 25, at which point they realized that they could relinquish; they could call it and move on.

  

  Natalie Zea
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  • Friends

• My grandmother died in childbirth, and my great-aunt lived with us. She had bound feet. She never knew how to read or write.

  

  Wendi Deng Murdoch
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  • Write
  • Grandmother

• It is such a gift to be able to write songs in general, but when you can share it with somebody, it is just such a pleasure. It is such a happy moment when you finish a song, and you are just like, 'Wow - that was great.'

  

  Valerie June
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  • Happy
  • Song

• Here's the miracle: I grew up thinking, 'Wouldn't it be great to write 'Superman' someday? Wouldn't it be great to create my own show, or work on 'Lensman,' or 'Forbidden Planet?' Those were very literally the goals I set for myself, the dreams that I thought I didn't have a chance in hell of ever actually achieving. But it's happened.

  

  J. Michael Straczynski
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  • Work
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• When you look at the team that Jimmy Rutherford has put together and the players that he has, this is just a great story of excellent in professional sports.

  

  Gary Bettman
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  • Together
  • Team

• I think pop music is a great place to get new ideas across.

  

  Damon Albarn Gorillaz
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  • Music
  • Ideas

• I was extremely lucky that I had two great wives. It sounds a bit funny to say that, but it's absolutely true.

  

  Edmund Hillary
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  • True
  • Funny

• I know a lot of people who say they want to leave Tulsa and go off to L.A. or New York City. But I can't wait to come back to Tulsa. It's a great place to be.

  

  Samantha Isler
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  • City

• Hope and optimism have defined my political career, and I continue to be hopeful and optimistic about Canada. Young people have been a great source of inspiration for me.

  

  Jack Layton
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  • Hope

• My teacher, my great cello teacher Leonard Rose, was such a great cellist, and nurturing man, very patient. But I grew up not only admiring him, but obviously Casals, Rostrotovich, Jacqueline du Pre, and many others, including many of my peers and contemporaries.

  

  Yo-Yo Ma
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  • Man

• The guys I tended to date, you know, didn't necessarily have it altogether but I had a great time.

  

  Gabrielle Union
  • Time
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  • Know

• I just want to be a part of great stories, whether I'm part of an amazing ensemble cast or I'm leading it or the antagonist or whatever.

  

  Zoe Saldana
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  • Want
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• If you go out and see a lot of movies in a given year, it's really hard to come up with a top ten, because you saw a lot of stuff that you liked. A top 20 is easier. You probably get one masterpiece a year, and I don't think you should expect more than one masterpiece a year, except in a really great year.

  

  Quentin Tarantino
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  • Think

• We have great international experts within India telling us that the climate is changing, and actions has to be taken, otherwise China and India would be the countries most to suffer from climate change.

  

  Hans Rosling
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  • Change
  • Taken

• Hiking is a great passion of mine, and I find myself picking up empty bottles.

  

  Sam Heughan
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  • Passion

• I've got guys in my band that have been there for about 35 years. They're great players, and we still enjoy doing the music.

  

  Lynn Anderson
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  • Music
  • Band

• When you are happy you can forgive a great deal.

  

  Princess Diana
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  • Happy

• Suffice to say, many women find their first appearance on a comedy panel show to be their last. Second chances seem to be given less often to the female of the species.

  

  Jo Brand
  • Women
  • Comedy

• Even if we didn't have greenhouse gases, were going to have to move away from fossil fuels, as we're going to run out. They're finite, whereas solar and wind are infinite.

  

  Ted Turner
  • Wind
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  • Solar

• The great thing about movies is that they're collaborative. And the worst thing is that they're collaborative.

  

  Jeffrey Wright
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