Great Quotes
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I wrote one book, signed with a good agent, and sat back and waited for the phone to ring. I was sure that the great news would come at any moment. Four books later, I finally got that call.
Deb Caletti
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Besides being a slum kid with no great education in anything except how to fight and stay alive and steal, I also had this temper.
Jake LaMotta
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Everyone always says, 'We don't want to be pigeonholed.' But sometimes, your pigeonhole is a great place to be.
Brian Fallon
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In any film business, if you're trying to get your next film made, you would never say, 'Oh, my last film was a cult film.' I'd say, 'Oh, great, well I hope this one isn't!' I always say to Johnny Knoxville, 'How do you do it? You sort of do the same thing we did, except you made millions, and I made hundreds.'
John Waters
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I used to say to my late wife, 'I have great faith in the American people.'
Joe Biden
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I worked for MI6 in the Sixties, during the great witch-hunts, when the shared paranoia of the Cold War gripped the services.
John le Carre
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Great stories start with great opening lines. 'I'm a lineman for the county' - what a great way to start a song.
Glen Campbell
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I had always been interested in screenwriting, ever since I could write things down as a child. Obviously, I started as an actor, professionally, but screenwriting was always something that I had a great interest in.
John Francis Daley
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And again: No more gods! no more gods! Man is King, Man is God! - But the great Faith is Love!
Arthur Rimbaud
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Suffering raises up those souls that are truly great; it is only small souls that are made mean-spirited by it.
Alexandra David-Neel
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I think the sheer attrition of American global domination will create circumstances in which the Chinese will be tempted to reach out for more influence, including in regions in which we have special interests, such as the Middle East, from which they already obtain a great deal of their energy. And that region will be seeking some new superpower patron.
Zbigniew Brzezinski
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A novelist can shift view-point if it comes off. ... Indeed, this power to expand and contract perception (of which the shifting view-point is a symptom), this right to intermittent knowledge - I find one of the great advantages of the novel-form ... this intermittence lends in the long run variety and colour to the experiences we receive.
E. M. Forster
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Prayer is a fine, delicate instrument. To use it right is a great art, a holy art. There is perhaps no greater art than the art of prayer. Yet the least gifted, the uneducated and the poor can cultivate the holy art of prayer.
Ole Hallesby
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I think when you have raw emotion in a song, it makes it great.
Shawn Mendes
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Great countries need to secure their border for national security purposes, for economic purposes and for rule of law purposes.
Jeb Bush
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The only thing Steve Jobs has ever asked me in all the years we've been together and have been partners, the only thing he has ever asked me is: 'Make it great.'
John Lasseter
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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.
John Edgar Wideman
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I'm a girl who enjoys a great meal with great friends, so I'm not really that concerned about weight loss.
Jill Scott
