Great Quotes
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A great part of courage is the courage of having done the thing before.
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There is no sin coveting things are of no great use or profit, but would show out good and have some grandeur around them.
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I like to cook with the philosophy of using great ingredients and not altering them too much.
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I'm an optimist; I always hope that each new script is going to be a great story.
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You can hear songs that are technically great, songs that tick all the boxes. But for a song to be felt, you need something else.
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I never wanted to write. I just wrote letters home from a kibbutz in Israel to reassure my parents that I was still alive and well fed and having a great time. They thought these letters were brilliant and sent them to a newspaper. So I became a writer by accident.
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Everything I learned about the Great Depression was from a college textbook.
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Yes, but the great thing about all the people - and I don't think there is any exception - who I've worked with is they've all been very, very talented musicians.
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Women over 35 have great stories, and the actresses are there, but you can't get the movies made.
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There are good players, there are great players, and there are those few at the pinnacle - the Peles, Cruyffs and Maradonas.
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After I did 'Orchids,' I enrolled back in film school and did a million and a half workshops and worked with great professors and people, trying to hopefully get better.
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American Apparel does great colourful basics that you can customise.
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When its time to go off to work, or work out, I have a great support system: a great nanny and friends who offer to help out whenever they can.
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These our great natural rights we keep to ourselves; we will not have them tampered with; respecting them we give to you no commission whatsoever.
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Books in general are great, but I'm a fiction lover, and I will continue to do it.
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I've written everywhere - in hotel rooms, cafes, airports, and planes all around the world. Now I have a home office, and the wi-fi is really bad down there, which is great. If I make a date with myself to write from, say, 6 A.M. to 10 A.M. on a Saturday, the fact that no emails come in helps me focus.
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I don't ever know where I'm going. Because one of the wonderful things about writing, which is different than working in programming, you don't need to know. You could just write and discover where you're going. And it's a great deal of fun.
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I go to assume a task more difficult than that which devolved upon Washington. Unless the great God, who assisted him, shall be with me and aid me, I must fail; but if the same omniscient mind and almighty arm that directed and protected him shall guide and support me, I shall not fail - I shall succeed.
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Just as the Security Council was largely irrelevant to the great struggle of the last half of the twentieth century - freedom against Communism - so too it is largely on the sidelines in our contemporary struggles against international terrorism and the proliferation of weapons of mass destruction.
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Truly great architecture always transcends its stated function, sometimes in unanticipated ways.
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But it's always really difficult to find someone that has the qualities to be a great accompanist.
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The '80s was the time for the great so-called modernization in Spain. It was a moment when it seemed that everything was breaking up and moving fast into modernity.
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Television, for me, is great because I love to act, every day. I love to work that muscle. I love to learn, and I love to be able to just do what I love. It's when I'm at my best. So, I love TV for that reason because it's every day.
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Theme is great for people who like to approach stories that way, but it's an organizing principle that helps us write a story that has some weight; it's not something that all readers have to care about.
