Great Quotes
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The great function of poetry is to give back to us the situations of our dreams.
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I've had such an amazing opportunity to work on so many different types of projects that continued on to Broadway. Unfortunately I didn't always continue on with them. Still, you know, I always had such a great pride in kind of helping the authors and directors create the show.
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It would be great to be recognised for my achievements, but Sports Personality isn't about that.
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The diversity of the phenomena of nature is so great, and the treasures hidden in the heavens so rich, precisely in order that the human mind shall never be lacking in fresh nourishment.
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There has been a great gulf in psychological thought between the perception of space and objects on one hand and the perception of meaning on the other.
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It's been 35 years since I left school. Almost nine of them were in government; all the rest were in the private sector. And I've proven over time to be a great leader.
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My first school play was 'Perkin and the Pastry Cook' that my primary school put on, and I played a boy, and it was so much fun, and I'd love to play a boy again. I think that would be great.
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You look at what happened with Chrysler, it went through that bankruptcy, and it's re-emerged in a much different fashion, privately held in some of those things, and it's really putting out a great product.
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Event cinema is what it is, and I understand why it's successful. It started with things like 'Jaws,' which are extraordinary movies. But what we've lost are great character films which are beautifully directed and had great movie stars in them. Films that were about something rather than about spectacle.
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I usually write when I'm in a great place. When I'm depressed, I don't usually write. So I take all of when I'm depressed and throw it into when I'm feeling good. Weird, I guess.
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That's what's great about the arts. Everything inspires you, and you get a chance to grow from watching other people and how they do their work.
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Mildred Pierce was capable of great acts of love as a mother.
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You cannot imagine how great it is to step out on the stage with thousands of screaming fans loving you.
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Watching soccer is my main hobby, really. I'm no tactician or coach, but I enjoy watching the free flow of it, the different styles, and the histories behind clubs. Like Barcelona vs. Madrid - it's not just a soccer game; it's a geopolitical struggle. There are great storylines and no commercials.
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Hopefully, reading and being around great literature inspires me to write songs, but I'm not sure about that.
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I think Linux is a great thing, in the big picture. It's a great hacker's tool, and it has a lot of potential to become something more.
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We're going to have to forgive a great deal of the Soviet era debt. There's no question about that. Let's face up to that. We're going to have to put in money if Russia is really going to consolidate a democracy.
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Richard Serra, the great sculptor, personifies an artist for me.
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Bolton School has a great tradition in the liberal arts.
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In Hollywood there's a great openness, almost a voracious appetite for new people. In England there's a great suspicion of the new. In cultural terms, that can be a good thing, but when you're trying to break into the film industry, it's definitely a bad thing.
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It is always the adventurers who do great things, not the sovereigns of great empires.
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I enjoy wine collecting and great food.
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The great mystery is why robots come off so well in science-fiction films when the human characters are often so astoundingly wooden.
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It was because a great-looking man with no apparent mental defects found her attractive. Imagine feeling so buoyant over something so juvenile.
