Great Quotes
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Great literature cannot grow from a neglected or impoverished soil. Only if we actually tend or care will it transpire that every hundred years or so we might get a Middlemarch.
P. D. James
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Preachers are not sermon makers, but men makers and saint makers, and he only is well-trained for this business who has made himself a man and a saint. It is not great talents nor great learning nor great preachers that God needs, but men great in holiness, great in faith, great in love, great in fidelity, great for God - men always preaching by holy sermons in the pulpit, by holy lives out of it. These can mold a generation for God.
Edward McKendree Bounds
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On a court full of great writers, I shouldn't say full of - there have been some bad writers on the court over the years.
Dahlia Lithwick
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In Miami, I was studying improv as well as acting. Improv is a great tool to have, just for the comedic timing that you get. When I moved to L.A., I started taking classes with The Groundlings, and I loved it. I'm definitely in love with improv and comedy.
Blake Jenner
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Riding in advance, we passed over one of these great plains; we looked back and saw the line of scattered horsemen stretching for a mile or more; and far in the rear against the horizon, the white wagons creeping slowly along.
Francis Parkman
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I don't know if we tell women great news about themselves enough. You'd be surprised how often a young woman doesn't hear positive things about herself - not in her home, not at school. It's hard to create a beautiful image for yourself when you've never seen it or heard it.
Alicia Keys
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The minute a person whose word means a great deal to others dare to take the open-hearted and courageous way, many others follow.
Marian Anderson
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That's the great thing about being an actor, you get to try out lots of things for your roles.
Bruce Boxleitner
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I want to go wherever there's great work. I'm a huge fan of film primarily. But you can get a great TV show and get attached to it. Making a great film is forever, though, so I always want to be part of film. It's my first love.
Aml Ameen
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Faraday, Maxwell, Larmor and a great number of others tried to explain electromagnetic action on these lines, but all attempts failed, and it began to seem impossible that any properties of ether could explain the observed pattern of events.
James Jeans
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I really feel like my goal, and I don't always achieve it, is to do the best work I can do, and stay out of the results. Because ultimately, the result is not what the work is about. There are other people whose jobs are to focus on those results and maximize them, and that's great. Let them do their job.
Alan Ball
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But so much of being an actor isn't so great - the auditioning, the rejection, the financial insecurity.
Douglas Wood
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I am part of the sun as my eye is part of me. That I am part of the earth my feet know perfectly, and my blood is part of the sea. My soul knows that I am part of the human race, my soul is an organic part of the great human race, as my spirit is part of my nation. In my own very self, I am part of my family.
D. H. Lawrence
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I'm in a great place because I trust people behind the camera as I go off, and I still go back to my day job and do film.
Lee Daniels
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I want to create the largest archive of great God debates in existence: a Web site that becomes a great resource for both Christians and atheists.
Dinesh D'Souza
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You just pour your heart and soul into a project, and everyone pays their dues, and everyone on the crew, everyone works so hard. Then you just don't know how the show ends up. You just hope that it turns out great, and you hope that people respond to it, and you hope that the network accepts a Season Two.
Jamie Chung
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I've got this thing where I think great shows have great credit sequences. I don't know why that is, exactly.
James Frain
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I always like to start with a great pair of shoes. It's your first contact with the ground, and it can really change the way you move and act physically.
Luke Macfarlane
