Great Quotes
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Fiction writing is great. You can make up almost anything.
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The great saints were always great innovators... They had to be very strong people... principled people. And, apart from their principles, with great tenacity they had to have great reserves of patience.
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It is easy in the world to live after the world's opinion; it is easy in solitude to live after our own; but the great man is he who in the midst of the crowd keeps with perfect sweetness the independence of solitude.
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Great truths are portions of the soul of man;Great souls are portions of eternity.
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But in the great hour Heaven sent the German people a great man, Herr von Cuno.
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Science is the only truth and it is the great lie. It knows nothing, and people think it knows everything. It is misrepresented. People think that science is electricity, automobilism, and dirigible balloons. It is something very different. It is life devouring itself. It is the sensibility transformed into intelligence. It is the need to know stifling the need to live. It is the genius of knowledge vivisecting the vital genius.
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This is the land of Narnia,' said the Faun, 'where we are now; all that lies between the lamp-post and the great castle of Cair Paravel on the eastern sea.
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As a songwriter, I go into the studio, and I just try to write a great song.
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They seemed nearer, not only mentally, but physically when they read ... Their chance was to make everything fine and finished and rich and imaginative; they must bend tiny golden tentacles from his imagination to hers, that would take the place of the great, deep love that was never so near, yet never so much of a dream.
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I live in the sky as a pilot, so it has great meaning to me.
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Some readers sort of suspect that you have another book that you didn't publish that has even more information in it. I think that readers sort of want to be taught something. They have this idea that there's a takeaway from a novel rather than just the being there, which I think is the great, great pleasure of reading.
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There are one or two very good women military historians who use imagination, great study and research; they can put themselves in the boots of the soldier.
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The first play I ever did was with Michael Langham, Brian Bedford, and Colm Feore, at Stratford Festival. That was my first professional job, and I got to work with Garland Wright and so many great artists.
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High stations tumult, but not bliss create; None think the Great unhappy, but the Great.
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Negative or positive attention - I think it's all great.
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You know, when you can play with the greatest players of that particular era, you look forward to going to the ballpark. I mean, you thought it was great to be there in the clubhouse. You thought it was great to be on the field.
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With a wedding gown, I have to make sure that people fall in love with it and that the details are very specific and special. There has to be a big story behind it and a great deal of integrity when it comes to the design.
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Undoubtedly, philosophers are in the right when they tell us that nothing is great or little otherwise than by comparison.
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We are seldom happy with what we now have, but would go to pieces if we lost any part of it.
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The great artist is a slave to his ideals.
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There were very few women comics when I started out doing stand-up. But I always saw that as a great advantage.
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Our nation truly owes a debt of gratitude to all who have served and sacrificed on behalf of this great country.
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When you're with someone, you want everything to be great. And that's the pressure that you put on, and what you just can't do.
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Protecting our Great Lakes and conserving this resource for the next generation is critical both for surrounding communities and our planet as a whole.
