Great Quotes
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The start of a film is like a gateway, a formal entrance-point. The first three minutes of a film make great demands on an audience's patience and credulity. A great deal has to be learnt very rapidly about place and attitude, character and intent and ambition.
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Great parts of our economy are directly dependent upon women having a weak self-concept. A multi-billion dollar fashion-cosmetic industry testifies to the validity of this approach. A woman who does not know who she is can be sold anything.
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The genius of our country is improvisation, and jazz reflects that. It's our great contribution to the arts.
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Great melody over great riffs is, to me, the secret of it all.
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Great art is as irrational as great music. It is mad with its own loveliness.
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In public, as well as in private expences, great wealth may, perhaps, frequently be admitted as an apology for great folly.
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My grandfather was a great chef.
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You'd like people to remember you for these great times on the ice. In reality, you want them to forget because you're doing something new and better.
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Our party has known great, great days. But we have no God-given right to survive, let alone to succeed.
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It was kind of unique and great to have two films coming out within a week. It certainly was a different experience for me.
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Whenever there are great virtues, it's a sure sign something's wrong.
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I often make movies that involve depression or deep holes of sadness, although there are also these other great things in 'New Moon,' like this epic set-piece at the end of the film in Italy.
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Let me tell you, when you're pregnant with the first one, it's great of course, all new and 'Yay!' With the second one it's still okay; you can pay attention to number one and she can share in the joy of the pregnancy.
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It is only requisite, for me to say to you, that the President places great reliance upon your skill, judgment and intimate knowledge.
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The idea that there could be other universes out there is really one that stretches the mind in a great way.
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I think daycare is great for people who have to work two jobs. My problem is with people who are dropping kids off at daycare because they want to go out and spend the day golfing or getting their nails done. You know what I mean? That's not why they invented daycare.
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The great thing about really heightened historical dramas is that they can convey much larger themes.
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There are so many reasons to mark the passing of the great Joe Cocker - as many songs as he wrote, recorded and performed in his remarkable concerts. For me, Cocker was also the only performer who successfully covered and even improved on The Beatles.
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I look at the N.B.A. as a job, a great job to have, so I think, for me, I would have loved the opportunity to go to the N.B.A. out of high school. If you're not ready, you're not ready. If you are ready, I think you should be able to go.
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That's a big important deal, the way people see you from the stage. Once in a while, I'd ask people, 'How did you enjoy the show?' 'Hey, you looked great.' But how did I sound? That visual look is very important to people.
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I don't know what really makes a great musical or not. In the end, you write it, and you write it because you want to write it.
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Throughout chess history, great debates have raged about the pros and cons of hanging pawns. The debates are nonsense; the answer is cut and dried. If the pawns can be attacked and forced to move forward, they are weak. If they can be defended and remain where they are, they are strong.
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It's not often I get to do a film that turns out good. Plus, there just aren't that many great directors out there. There are a thousand different decisions that need to be made with each script and it's the good directors that can make those decisions. It's a long and complicated process in regards to what looks good on paper. Working on a bad film can be fun too. It can be a good exercise that gets you writing.
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At the end of the day, the great ones - well, they rise, and that's what I want to do.
