Great Quotes
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Is it OK to admit to being slightly obsessed with the TV programme 'Great British Menu?'
John Lanchester
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A lot of young-adult authors, great ones, have tried their hands at literary fiction, and not a lot of them have succeeded. Not even Roald Dahl could switch-hit, and not for lack of trying.
Lev Grossman
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My dad actually makes the best cookies. My mum is great baker, too, but doesn't share them - it's tantalising! Luckily for me though, my dad shares his!
Blake Lively
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How great a Possibility, how small a realized Result.
Thomas Carlyle
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Most lawyers aren't trial lawyers. Most lawyers, even trial lawyers, don't get their problems solved in a courtroom. We like to go to court. It seems heroic to go to court. We think we're the new, great advocates, better than anything we've seen on TV, and we come home exhilarated by having gone to court.
Janet Reno
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I went to the Old Bailey, and I met a judge, and I was petrified, but they were like, 'Oh, you're an actor, well, great.' It was a bit like we're cut from the same cloth a little bit.
Maxine Peake
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The idea of being icons, I think it's great when you're 24. It's fantastic.
Ian Astbury
The Cult
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In the end, therefore, money will be the one thing people will desire, which is moreover only representative, an abstraction. Nowadays a young man hardly envies anyone his gifts, his art, the love of a beautiful girl, or his fame; he only envies him his money. Give me money, he will say, and I am saved...He would die with nothing to reproach himself with, and under the impression that if only he had had the money he might really have lived and might even have achieved something great.
Soren Kierkegaard
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I had great schooling, and my parents were always in front of me, or next to me, or behind me, making sure I had whatever I needed.
Marcus Samuelsson
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Every generation thinks their music is the ultimate. But there's great stuff from every generation.
Delbert McClinton
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I have been fortunate. I have done so many things and enjoyed so many things and had such a great life, not to imply that it is ending, but that there aren't many things that I feel I have left undone.
Lois Lowry
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I think it's great when stories are dark and strange and weirdly personal.
Robin Williams
