Great Ones Quotes - Page 4

• Several things can throw me into that space where I feel energetic and peaceful at the same moment - often things that force me to utilize all my senses. Sunshine does it for me. Music for sure, singing, and dancing. Conscious breathing. Nature. Silence. Meditation. Sport is a great one.

  Richard Brancatisano

  Sports, Sunshine, Breathing

  "Richard Brancatisano Interview with Maranda Pleasant". www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

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• All the subject matter I talk about isn't new; all comics talk about the same things. But it's how you talk about them or present them or what you look like up there that makes the difference between an okay comic and a great one.

  Andrew Dice Clay

  Differences, Looks, Matter

  Source: brightestyoungthings.com

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• [Arnold Schwarzenegger] is funny. Some great one-liners, some great banter between him and the contestants [on "The Apprentice" ]. And he's good!

  Boy George

  One Liner, Schwarzenegger, Banter

  Source: www.washingtontimes.com

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• My parents took me to that I think is just one of those near-perfect comedies is Young Frankenstein. Gene Wilder and Mel Brooks, they're at the height of their game. The two of them working together was amazing. Yeah, just a terrific story. You get emotionally involved. Jokes all the time, jokes that come from story. Like, they don't have to go wildly out of their way to make the jokes. It's a parody of Frankenstein movies, but also it stands as one of the great ones, one of the great Frankenstein movies.

  Doug Benson

  Thinking, Two, Games

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• Certainly we're always rooting for our particular contingent moment to be a great one. Pain-free. But the more expansive vision has to include the idea that, even for us, sometimes our particular contingent moment is going to be horrific.

  George Saunders

  Pain, Ideas, Vision

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I don't think so much anymore. When you're younger, and at your height, then people want you to do that great one again. But seriously, things are forgotten, and that's the truth.

  Diane Keaton

  Thinking, People, Want

  Source: archive.azcentral.com

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• Everything I learned and didn't do in New York I would put into place here in the London West Hollywood. It's fascinating, when you look at the critics' reviews, and we had a great one in the New York Observer and all that, and then the New York Times came and it was a devastation; two stars out of four. They said that I played safe because it wasn't fireworks. Then they judged the persona over the substance that was on the plate.

  Gordon Ramsay

  New York, Stars, Two

  Source: www.crushable.com

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• Alien's a great one. That's a scary movie.

  Judd Nelson

  Scary, Aliens

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• Songs hold different memories for different people and the great ones are the ones that become a part of you and your story.

  Georgia Nott

  Song, Memories, People

  Source: www.coupdemainmagazine.com

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• I am never much interested in the effects of what I write....I seldom read with any attention the reviews of my...books. Two times out of three I know something about the reviewer, and in very few cases have I any respect for his judgments. Thus his praise, if he praises me, leaves me unmoved. I can't recall any review that has even influenced me in the slightest. I live in sort of a vacuum, and I suspect that most other writers do, too. It is hard to imagine one of the great ones paying any serious attention to contemporary opinion.

  H. L. Mencken

  Book, Writing, Two

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• If you're going to be a writer you have to be one of the great ones... After all, there are better ways to starve to death.

  Gabriel Garcia Marquez

  Way, Better Ways, Ifs

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• Little minds mistake little objects for great ones, and lavish away upon the former that time and attention which only the latterdeserve. To such mistakes we owe the numerous and frivolous tribe of insect-mongers, shell-mongers, and pursuers and driers of butterflies, etc. The strong mind distinguishes, not only between the useful and the useless, but likewise between the useful and the curious.

  Lord Chesterfield

  Strong, Mistake, Butterfly

  Lord Chesterfield (1998). “Lord Chesterfield's Letters”, p.160, OUP Oxford

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• Almost all politicians are able to have a great one-on-one meeting. But Im not interested in the candidate who can have a great meeting. Im interested in the person who can make the right decisions.

  Kenneth C. Griffin

  Decision, Able, Politician

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• There are a lot of photographers who have influenced me; some of the great ones, like Herb Ritts, Helmut Newton, and [Alfred] Stieglitz. I draw from all of them. You're supposed to steal from the good ones.

  Leonard Nimoy

  Herbs, Photographer, Newton

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• Samba rhythm is a great one to sing on, but it's also got some other suggestions in it, an undercurrent of being primitive - because it is a primitive African, South American, Afro-whatever-you-call-that rhythm. So to white people, it has a very sinister thing about it.

  Mick Jagger

  White, People, Suggestions

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• Directing requires great discipline, that ability to be in and out at the same time. The great ones I've worked with are like generals. It's a bit like a small war on that level. The great ones have that combination of freedom and control. I'm nowhere near that. There's still so much to do as an actor. I have enough to explore with that.

  Robin Williams

  War, Discipline, Actors

  Source: movieweb.com

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• Winning the Super Bowl was obviously a great one, but the joy I felt of going to the Super Bowl, it was what I felt about the Pittsburgh Steelers and where we came from, the history of us to that point.

  Joe Greene

  Winning, Joy, Pittsburgh

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• 'Oh! Darling' was a great one of Paul's that he didn't sing too well. I always thought I could have done it better-it was more my style than his. He wrote it, so what the hell, he's going to sing it.

  John Lennon

  Music, Style, Done

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• Little men build up great ones, but the snow colossus soon melts; the good stand under the eye of God, and therefore stand.

  Walter Savage Landor

  Eye, Men, Snow

  Walter Savage Landor (1853). “The Works of Walter Savage Landor”, p.154

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• The generality of men are so bound within the sphere of their circumstances that they have not even the courage to get out of them through their ideas, and if we see a few whom, in a way, speculation over great things makes incapable of mean ones, we find still more with whom the practice of small things takes away the feeling for great ones.

  Luc de Clapiers

  Mean, Men, Practice

  "Reflections and Maxims". Book by Luc de Clapiers, 1746.

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• Light cares cry out; the great ones still are dumb.

  Seneca the Younger

  Light, Dumb, Care

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• You are always a comedian by default. You are this way because you've been forced to be this way, but it is better to be the hero. So if you can be a persona, the great one of my lifetime of course was and is Marlon Brando.

  Woody Allen

  Hero, Comedian, Way

  "Curse of the Jade Scorpion, The : Interview With Woody Allen". Cinema.com Interview, cinema.com.

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• Absence abates a moderate passion and intensifies a great one - as the wind blows out a candle but fans fire into flame.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Passion, Blow, Wind

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• I've always had good relationships with directors. I'm one of those people where, if there's a good idea coming from the sound guy, I'll take it. Filmmaking is a collaborative effort, whether it's a first-time director or it's Mike Nichols. I think that's the standard that the great ones set.

  Patrick Wilson

  Thinking, Ideas, People

  Source: collider.com

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• You want an idea about what you can say. I know it sounds like a bad idea but here's specifically why its actually a great one. You want to sound crazy but you want to ask to be right.

  Sam Altman

  Crazy, Ideas, Want

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