Great Quotes
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If thou wouldst be interesting, keep thy personality in the background, and be great and strong in and through thy subject.
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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 don't understand why black people have been so quiescent, so passive over the hundreds of years of American history. Why hasn't there been more violence, more armed struggle? I know answers to some of that, but it seems to me it's an issue of faith, an abiding faith in some sort of great beyond, or great spirit, or even in the American dream.
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Speed is not always a constituent to great work, the process of creation should be given time and thought.
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The really great writers are people like Emily Bronte who sit in a room and write out of their limited experience and unlimited imagination.
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Because of social media, we have a lot of personal essays floating around; you see them on Facebook: everyone's either reading them or writing them. Some of them are great; some of them are diary entries put forth as essays.
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I've seen so many photographers rush to do books the minute they start shooting, but one great thing about photography is that the images don't go away, so the more I sit with these images, the more I learn which ones have had the most impact.
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Some writing and production projects will be a great way to spend my elderly rock years.
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If you look at what happened, I came in the middle of the worst financial crisis since the Great Depression. And unlike Franklin Delano Roosevelt who waited, well, didn't take office until about three years into the Great Depression, it was happening just as I was elected.
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Still, on 'Friends', we had some guest-stars who were less than spectacular, not the stunt-casting, but just regular guest-stars, and they weren't particularly great actors, but the material was so good that they scored. It's the writing.
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Classical music is always a really great way for me to get my chops to where I want them to be.
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In great deeds something abides.
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I grew up with great relationships with my stepparents.
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We want to shine a light on this great city of Baltimore. I can tell you, I love this city.
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Some people would say comedy draws from some dark places, from your dark stuff. Life's great optimists aren't necessarily the funniest people.
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It's something that people relate to - and I hope my kid doesn't relate to - but there's a level of believability in playing complex characters. You know, Christopher Walken has done some hilarious comedies, De Niro. There's great room for complexity and darkness to do well in comedies.
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I think America is a great place to grow up. It's a good lifestyle.
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I think that research is incredibly important and hopefully one day there will be a cure for cancer. They are making great strides.
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I count myself fortunate to be able to contribute to this work; and the great interest which the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences has shown in my work and the recognition that it has paid to my past successes, convince me that I am not on the wrong track.
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After God made you, he stepped back and said, “This is a great one!”
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Sometimes writers of no talent at all can write great acting scenes. Sometimes the very best writers can't write scenes that come to life.
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Shouldn't a great museum foster serious seeing before all else?
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Part of what's great about America, and Canada as well, is that we can talk about our political leaders in public.
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Beauty and love pass, I know... Oh, there's sadness, too. I suppose all great happiness is a little sad. Beauty means the scent of roses and then the death of roses-
