Great Quotes
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Ambition drives you on, ability certainly helps, but the fickle finger of fate and luck are great things.
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The great opportunity belongs to him who can see it, to him who can grasp it. The better part of your chance is right inside of you.
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There are only three great powers in the universe: God in heaven, the pope in the Vatican and Dadá in the great box.
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Education would be a divine thing, if it did nothing more than help us to think and love great thoughts instead of little thoughts.
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All middle-income families use carbs to stretch meals, across any ethnic group - whether it's kugel or rice and beans or macaroni and cheese. I remember having pancakes for dinner. But as kids, we thought, 'Breakfast for dinner? This is great.'
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Success can allow you to try for greatness, can give you an opportunity to take a chance on something. I'm very blessed to have the success that I've had, and that's given me so many opportunities to work on being great.
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This excessive love for 'the balance of power' is neither more nor less than a gigantic system of out-door relief for the aristocracy of Great Britain.
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I would love to just keep working with really great directors who really inspire me.
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Great emotion always tends to become rhythmic, and out of that tendency the forms of art have been evolved. Art becomes artificial only when the forms take precedence over the emotion.
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90% of the divorces are initiated by women. That is really odd. Why? What's going on? What's the great discontent at the heart of it?
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I had admired Richard Burton for years and years before I had ever worked with him. He was a great, great actor. It was a joy to get to know him as a person.
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Josh Brolin is an actor that I really, really like; he's fantastic. I worked with him once; he's a really great actor.
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On the sets, Ali Zafar was extremely entertaining... he would just start singing out of the blue. It was just great!
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I try not to picture a reader when I'm writing. It's like trying to make a great table but not picturing anybody sitting at it.
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Passion for fame: A passion which is the instinct of all great souls.
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I think Madonna has a great deal of intelligence and capability. I have a lot of respect for her. She's taken her career and maximized it with intelligence and creativity.
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Plot is a framework on which to drape other things. So once that's working, I can just let it go and do all the stuff that I love - 'Trojan horse' it. There are so many great YA heroines, and that's fantastic, but what about the emotionally complex boy out there? That's who I tend to write about.
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X-Men is massive, like nothing I've ever experienced. But great in its own way.
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The risk of any great luxury brand that has its history in the past is that it can get dusty.
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A battle lost or won is easily described, understood, and appreciated, but the moral growth of a great nation requires reflection, as well as observation, to appreciate it.
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I wanted to make a living, but I really was not interested in money at all. I was interested in being a great comedian.
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Study what you love, and you'll never have to work a day in your life. It'll be one great adventure.
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It's great to have all this stuff at home. But when you want to make it for real, there's still nothing like making music with a bunch of other great musicians in the same room. That's one thing that'll never change.
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