Good Quotes
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The usual way - through a long series of rejections, revising my manuscripts, and kept trying again and again. Finally I was fortunate enough to find a good agent.
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My dad loves babies. He's really good with them and is a big family man.
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Building a rainy-day fund during good times may not be politically popular, but it can pay off during the bad times.
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Ultimately, we're making and selling a consumer good that needs to work and that needs to make customers happy.
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I've never really been very good at marriage. It's one of my failures. I've tried my best, but I do realise the common denominator is me; it's something I'm doing.
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I'll never be a good writer, and no chance of being a good actor.
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The Peacekeepers had a tradition that every problem had a solution. It was a nice slogan. Wasn’t true, but it sounded good.
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When you see the industry's fickleness so early on, you realise that you are only as good as your last release. It is all about your work. And that has set the way I look at my profession and what I do in my career.
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That American confidence is more alive and well than it should be, to this day. But it's such a problem. There's a blindness to that confidence, a presumption that what's good for me is good for you. No! That's what teenagers think: the world revolves around them. As a nation, we've got to stop thinking that way. We're getting too old for that.
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Love yourself, appreciate yourself, see the good in you... and respect yourself.
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Some things feel really good to sing: there's a physical aspect, but there's more to it - a deeper place you go to.
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Having red hair is never good when you're a kid. I was picked on a lot and didn't have a lot of friends. But I think that gave me a thick skin and helped make me a better person.
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There is a view that jazz is 'evil' because it comes from evil people, but actually the greatest priests on 52nd Street and on the streets of New York City were the musicians. They were doing the greatest healing work. They knew how to punch through music that would cure and make people feel good.
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I remember wondering why it was that eating something good could make me feel so terrible, while vomiting something terrible could make me feel so good.
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When you're going through tough moments, you never know when you're going to have good moments.
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I was really good at Latin at school, and because I was good at it, I got more interested and got better at it.
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The basic line in any good verse is cadenced... building it around the natural breath structures of speech.
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Be a good reading role model. Show kids what you like to read, what you don't like to read, how you choose what you read. Let them see you reading.
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I was never an actress -- none of us kids at Metro were. We were just good to look at.
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I'm fine with being thought of as a guitar player, and if I can get any recognition or respect for doing that, that's a pretty good thing for me.
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I'm probably most inspired by good street style that features items I already own; it's always great to see how another person wears something you have, which sort of reinvents it for you.
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As funny as we thought our script might have been, 'Super Troopers,' starring five nobodies, didn't fit the model of a good financial bet.
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The press pool was taking bets on how many months I would last. There was nobody in the state who thought I had any shot at being a good senator.
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I feel that the critic and music director should have such a good relationship they can pick up the phone and call each other any time.
