Good Quotes
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I wanted to be a writer, but at the time, I spent my days working a retail job, my nights sleeping in my childhood bedroom, and while I had written short stories here and there, I didn't know how to write good fiction anymore than I knew how to perform good brain surgery.
Anthony Marra
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My brother told me I was going to be a poet. I had a good brother. He did a lot of good brotherly work.
Marilynne Robinson
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It is through good education that all the good in the world arises.
Immanuel Kant
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I grew up on the old EC comic books before the Comics Code in North American and with all sort of good-natured fun. I never had nightmares I think because all of the old horror stuff that I was exposed to was well meaning in a certain sense.
George A. Romero
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The only things that smell good are fat and sugar. Tofu being boiled doesn't smell good. Anything that smells good is fattening.
John Madden
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What I have learned from my work up to now, is to try to be open, but also protect myself by not letting the good and the evil get too much importance.
Jane Campion
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All religions are essentially the same in their goal of developing a good human heart so that we may become better human beings.
Dalai Lama
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Truly God was good, to make man so blind.
Colleen McCullough
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A good mustache makes a man for many reasons.
John Oates Daryl Hall & John Oates
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I thought we had a really good defensive first half. We found momentum at the beginning of the second quarter and established a lead.
Phil Jackson
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Michael Buble is seriously my favorite entertainer. Have you ever seen the guy in concert? He's hilarious. Women love him. Guys want to meet him. He has everything that I wish I could do onstage. And I'm guessin' he's a good-lookin' guy - although he's not one of 'People' magazine's sexiest men.
Blake Shelton
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Good and Evil are names that signify our appetites and aversions, which in different tempers, customs, and doctrines of men, are different: And diverse men differ not only in their judgment, on the senses of what is pleasant and unpleasant to the taste, smell, hearing, touch, and sight, but also of what is conformable, or disagreeable to Reason, in the actions of the common life. Nay, the same man, in diverse times, differs from himself, and one time praiseth, that is, calleth Good, what another time he dispraiseth, and calleth Evil.
Thomas Hobbes
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I don't like the way some actors, when playing a nasty character, will try to grab hold of something good about them.
Peter Mullan
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I tend to choose collaborators who are more courageous than I am. I think it's good for me.
Kelly Sue DeConnick
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They lived freely among the students, they argued with the men over philosophical, sociological and artistic matters, they were just as good as the men themselves: only better, since they were women.
D. H. Lawrence
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When our actions are based on good intentions our soul has not regrets.
Anthony Douglas Williams
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Manners are a sensitive awareness of the feelings of others. If you have that awareness, you have good manners, no matter what fork you use.
Emily Post
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Good habits are worth being fanatical about.
John Irving
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I often find that writers who disavow the importance of an ending are just not very good at endings.
Anthony McCarten
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Mother liked beauty wherever she found it, and she found it in many different places, both in nature and in contemporary art. And that's where they pretty much parted company. Father... anything that was abstract would to him automatically be not very good.
David Rockefeller
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You just have to ensure that you make good films because audiences today have become picky and smart, and rightfully so.
Alia Bhatt
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One thing about golf is you don't know why you play bad and why you play good.
George Archer
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It's enormously good fun. I love it. I really do. I have this sort of set face.
Marsha Mason
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If you don't like my book, write your own. If you don't think you can write a novel, that ought to tell you something. If you think you can, do. No excuses. If you still don't like my novel, find a book you do like. Life is too short to be miserable. If you do like my novels, I commend your good taste.
Rita Mae Brown