Good Quotes
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All of us use art and literature as an escape from time to time, but if it's any good, it has a healing quality - a quality that enlarges our human spirits.
Katherine Paterson
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War is nothing but a microcosm of peace... it shows you life in a more intense way and that's how I continue to live it... for good or bad reasons.
Zainab Salbi
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I just love good movies. And not every movie you're going to end up in is always going to turn out right, but at least walk into it with the right intention.
Joel Edgerton
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It doesn't mean a thing when others tell you you're good. You have to feel it yourself.
Johnny Mathis
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If you walk into a room, and there is no one that's not like you there, whether it's a woman or a person of color, anyone that's different from you, you should be able to say this is a problem. We need allies in that room to say that video, this room, this company, these ideas, this film, this whatever, this is not right - this is not good enough.
Ava DuVernay
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I wasn't good at the sciences; I wasn't a good enough athlete. The only thing I could do was mow lawns. So I thought that writing or teaching was what I wanted to do.
Owen King
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A vain man finds it wise to speak good or ill of himself; a modest man does not talk of himself.
Jean de la Bruyere
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Polling is an art as well as a science, and the art of crafting good questions is still vital.
Kristen Soltis Anderson
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Do what makes you feel good. Remind yourself of what you're good at and make sure you do that.
Jessie J
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His tenacity is unmatched in my opinion. Incredible how someone could have suffered that long and come back out of prison with such a good heart and positive things to say and do.
Maurice Ashley
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Good and evil increase at compound interest. That's why the little decisions we make every day are of infinite importance.
C. S. Lewis
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Chalkboards being used inside the restaurant seem to be a good sign that the proprietors are proud of their food, and that's kind of nice, actually - it's a nice personal touch.
Fred Armisen
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Of course, there is drawing in art as there is style in literature. Style that is mannered, that strains after effect, is bad. No style is good except that which effaces itself in order to concentrate all the attention of the reader upon the subject treated, upon the emotion rendered.
Auguste Rodin
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Animals praise a good day, a good hunt. They praise rain if they're thirsty. That's prayer. They don't live an unconscious life, they simply have no language to talk about these things. But they are grateful for the good things that come along.
Mary Oliver
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Art has to move you and design does not, unless it's a good design for a bus.
David Hockney
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We all are just people, and something happens, and we make a decision as a result when something happens, and it could be a poor choice or a good choice or anywhere in between. But we make that decision in the moment, and we live with the consequences.
Clare-Hope Ashitey
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Constructive criticism is about finding something good and positive to soften the blow to the real critique of what really went on.
Paula Abdul
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I could have made a lot of money doing 'Golden Girls,' and I would have been good. But the image of it! And for me to work with Betty White every day would be like taking cyanide.
Elaine Stritch
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They the government really want to maintain power. At the same time, they refuse to communicate. They refuse to have good intentions. They refuse to be sincere. How can that last?
Ai Weiwei
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For Michael Wright and Frank Darabont to cast me as the ultimate good guy and Eddie Burns as the ultimate bad guy, and really switching roles from what we usually play, is pretty awesome. That generally doesn't happen, but TNT is a horse of a different color.
Neal McDonough
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A lot of those good-looking girl parts aren't very fun.
Jennifer Coolidge
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I've had a nontabloid life because I had a really good family.
Peter Billingsley
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True merit does not depend on the times or on fashion. Those who have no other advantage than courtly manners lose it when they are away from court. But good sense, knowledge, and wisdom make their possessors knowledgeable and beloved in all ages and in all times.
Madeleine de Souvre
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I have no idea whether I'm any good or not. Still waiting, like most actors, for somebody to find out one day that I can't do it.
Art Malik