Great Quotes
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The fans have been great, they've stuck with me through a lot of hit-less years and I think they were as determined as I was that it was time to put an end to the lack of hits.
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I was raised by a mother who told me I was great every day of my life.
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Pop culture is great, but it can be bad, at times.
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I feel challenged every day, when I come to work. I feel like I have to step up my game, and that's a great thing.
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I've become friends with Michael Mann and Oliver Stone; I've seen those guys work and that was great to see.
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Some writing and production projects will be a great way to spend my elderly rock years.
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I have visited many countries, and have been in cities without number, yet never did I enter a town which could not produce ten or twelve little great men; all fancying themselves known to the rest of the world, and complimenting each other upon their extensive reputation.
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One of the great things that you should never do that I learned from John Malkovich is to never judge your characters.
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Sometimes it's great when, you know, you're sitting down to watch a straightforward story, and you know how it's going to go, and you know how it's going to end. That's a fairy tale.
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It came as a great shock to me when I heard that England and Soviet Russia had become allies. So much so that I thought that the people responsible in London were acting in a manner that no longer coincided with British imperial interests.
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My heroes are, above all, the great 19th-century Americans: Emerson, Whitman, Dickinson and the others. I love the way they think.
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They showed this one beautiful picture of me recently and they had all the things that I had done. I thought it was a great compliment for everybody to think I've had plastic surgery.
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The great thing about our system of democracy is when they call you for jury duty, you have to come... It's an honor and a privilege. I was called and I've got to be here.
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I'm constantly unsatisfied with any situation, which is both good and bad, because never being fully happy drives me to better every day... but I don't enjoy the things that I do even when I do them great.
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I love the '60s and sort of wish all design had stopped in 1967. That would be my dream. They were really just nailing it - everyone looked great - but then it started getting a bit slippery after that.
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A novelist must preserve a childlike belief in the importance of things which common sense considers of no great consequence.
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I've never believed that pop music is escapist trash. There's always a darkness in it, even amidst great pop music.
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I's taken me a great deal to get here. I don't plan on missing anything.
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In many ways, it's easier to write a book. You have more latitude with structure, and you have the freedom to luxuriate within the internal lives and musings of your characters. But where a screenplay does not always demand great prose, a novel lives or dies by it.
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Don't be afraid to scrape the paint off and do it again. This is the way you learn, trial and error, over and over, repetition. It pays you great dividends, great, great dividends.
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Of course I would like to play with Cristiano Ronaldo - he is a great player.
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Cinema is a great binding force for a nation.
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Vacuuming is great. I do the laundry. I love washing machines. I'm the maid in my house.
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Long term, I have a lot of confidence in the United States. We have an excellent record in terms of innovation. We have great universities that are involved in technological change and progress. We have an entrepreneurial culture, much more than almost any other country.
