Good Quotes
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Sometimes I'll write without the guitar or the piano, but most of the time I'll be playing and just improvising some words. And when I get something that sounds good, a line with a story in it, I'll try and tease it out and figure out where the story is going.
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If you could stop every atom in its position and direction, and if your mind could comprehend all the actions thus suspended, then if you were really, really good at algebra you could write the formula for all the future; and although nobody can be so clever as to do it, the formula must exist just as if one could.
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I believe in saving money. I believe in having a house. I believe in keeping things clean. I believe in exercising. Slow and steady is a very good thing for me. It works for me.
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I make it happen. Who bought Alex Haley's book 'Roots' for TV? Me. I hired the director, hired the writer. I put them all together. I'm like the chef. If I mix all the ingredients right, it's going to taste terrific. If I don't, it's not going to come out good.
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Every good cause is worth some inefficiency.
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As soon as white folks say a play's good, the theater is jammed with blacks and whites.
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In 1977, I wrote a series of poems about a character, Black Bart, a former cattle rustler-turned-alchemist. A good friend, Claude Purdy, who is a stage director, suggested I turn the poems into a play.
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D.C. fans, I think, are so good. They just come up to me, and they're so nice and so polite and just, 'Hey, I hope you have a great career,' and 'How are you doing, everything's good?' That's pretty much where they leave it at.
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You're never too good to get better... take that and apply that to everything in your life.
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I have never done Cult TV before, the convention was good. It gives the fans a chance to meet the celebrities. Connect with the guy that used to be a bunch of coloured dots on your TV screen.
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Enjoy every moment because it is so good and just a testament to all the work you've put in.
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I listen to Mark Chestnutt and think he's a great singer - and he really does good material.
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I don't think that my twenties were any more dramatic than those of most people I know. I was never that bad and I never became that good.
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Intellectuals tend to be arrogant. Intelligence, like money, is a good servant but a bad master. When practicing pranayama, the yogi [makes] himself humble and without pride in his intellectual attainments.
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It's easier to replace a dead man than a good picture.
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I always look for good stories and good characters, and if they're placed in a whodunit, then I'm interested.
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I'm definitely not as good as people who consider themselves beatboxers.
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Human beings are very good at adapting to what happens.
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Three of my novels and a good number of my short stories are told from the point of view of men. I was brought up in a house of women.
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Fear guides more to their duty than gratitude; for one man who is virtuous from the love of virtue, from the obligation he thinks he lies under to the Giver of all, there are ten thousand who are good only from their apprehension of punishment.
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People will watch your film only if it's good. Another star's flop won't make your film a hit. So my race is with myself.
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We work the full year round to make 10 or 12 episodes, and 'The Good Wife' makes, like, 26 in that time or something, which I can't believe. I don't know how they do it.
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I do not remember where I read that there are two kinds of poets: the good poets, who at a certain point destroy their bad poems and go off to run guns in Africa, and the bad poets, who publish theirs and keep writing more until they die.
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I always like Madonna; any Madonna song is good for me.
