Great Things Quotes - Page 18

• The great thing about writing for a younger audience is that they will give it to you straight with their responses. They'll tell you exactly what they liked and didn't like, and when they're enthusiastic, they're unashamedly enthusiastic. They'll talk to you about your characters as if they were real people, which is wonderful.

  Cassandra Clare

  Real, Writing, Character

  Source: www.writewords.org.uk

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• The great thing about doing a show in New York is that you can work until the night before.

  Robert Longo

  New York, Night, Shows

  Interview with Keanu Reeves, www.interviewmagazine.com. April 4, 2014.

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• When people are connected, we can just do some great things. They have the opportunity to get access to jobs, education, health, communications. We have the opportunity to bring the people we care about closer to us.

  Mark Zuckerberg

  Jobs, Communication, Opportunity

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• Obviously the great thing about this job is the complete freedom of the schedule. So long as I meet the deadline, they don't care when I work or how I work.

  Bill Watterson

  Jobs, Long, Schedules

  Source: bob.bigw.org

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• Golf is social. It brings a lot of people together. And the great thing about a scramble, there's less pressure because you don't feel like every shot has to be your shot.

  Mia Hamm

  Golf, People, Together

  "Q&A With Mia Hamm". Interview with Matt Ginella, www.golfdigest.com. May 30, 2010.

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• The great thing about writing is, if you don't like the world, we'll create a different one.

  Richard Bach

  Writing, Different, World

  Interview with Michael Peter Langevin, www.inner-growth.info.

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• When I started writing seriously, I made the major discovery of my life - that I am right and everybody else is wrong if they disagree with me. What a great thing to learn: Don't listen to anyone else, and always go your own way.

  Ray Bradbury

  Writing, Discovery, Way

  Source: www.raybradbury.com

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• Work hard and find stories you want to tell from your heart. The great thing for women is that there are so many stories which haven't been told from our perspective and there is a huge audience just waiting to watch it.

  Sanna Lenken

  Hard Work, Heart, Perspective

  Source: blogs.indiewire.com

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• I wanted the chance to look again at very famous stories and see what made them work well, whether there were any ways in which they could be improved. Because the great thing about fairy tales and folk tales is that there is no authentic text.

  Philip Pullman

  Looks, Stories, Way

  Source: www.motherjones.com

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• Because the great thing about fairy tales and folk tales is that there is no authentic text. It's not like the text of Paradise Lost or James Joyce's Ulysses, and you have to adhere to that exact text.

  Philip Pullman

  Paradise, Fairy Tale, Ulysses

  "His Grimm Materials: A Conversation With Philip Pullman". Interview with Michael Mechanic, www.motherjones.com. November/December 2012.

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• When you talk about presidents, loyalty is a great thing until it becomes a bad thing. Witness once again Watergate.

  Monica Crowley

  Loyalty, President, Witness

  Source: www.nbcnews.com

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• One of the great things about African-Americans is that we've always had this attitude: We make do with what we got. It comes from our ancestors being slaves.

  Spike Lee

  Attitude, African American, Slave

  "So What's On Your Mind, Spike Lee?". Interview with Stacey Wilson Hunt, www.hollywoodreporter.com. January 17, 2012.

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• I believe in fate. And in the depths of my soul, I am an Orthodox Christian. I think the New Testament is especially important. What Jesus and his disciples preached and did was a great thing.

  Nadezhda Tolokonnikova

  Christian, Jesus, Believe

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• That's one of the great things about touring. It makes you machinelike in a way that you can re-create this music not only in the right way but even better than when it was conceived.

  Mike Patton

  Way, Touring, Right Way

  The Believer interview, www.believermag.com. January 2013.

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• Many great authors of the 19th century wrote under conditions of strict censorship. The great thing about the art of writing a novel, is that you can write about anything. All you have to say is that it's fiction.

  Orhan Pamuk

  Art, Writing, Fiction

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• I don't think there's a shortage of remarkable ideas. I think your business has plenty of great opportunities to do great things. Nope, what's missing isn't the ideas. It's the will to execute them.

  Seth Godin

  Opportunity, Thinking, Ideas

  Seth Godin (2009). “Purple Cow, New Edition: Transform Your Business by Being Remarkable”, p.32, Penguin

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• I have this determination and drive to live a better life, change the world, and accomplish great things. Distractions are always there, but my purpose is so much greater that I'm always able to get back on focus.

  Jeet Banerjee

  Determination, Life Changing, Focus

  Source: theimarketingcafe.com

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• I wake up each and everyday happy because of all of the great things that I have going on in my life and I think about all of the blessings that God has bestowed upon me.

  Vernon Davis

  Blessing, Thinking, Everyday

  "Vernon Davis ‘The NFL Playoffs’ Interview". Interview with Kam Williams, January 15, 2012.

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• When I was starting as an anime director I wanted to be known for great things. I never wanted to be known for some overblown toy commercial.

  Yoshiyuki Tomino

  Anime, Directors, Toys

  Source: www.animemaru.com

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• Any additional spotlight you can put onto an opening of a film is a great thing to get.

  Tim Bevan

  Spotlight, Film, Opening

  Source: deadline.com

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• In a period piece, particularly a fantasy, the lighting is your own choice, the lenses are your own choice. It's really a great thing for a cinematographer to do. Everything is open for you. You can even be more creative and you can use more shadows than usual.

  Vilmos Zsigmond

  Choices, Creative, Shadow

  "Interview: Cinematographer Vilmos Zsigmond". Interview with Laurence Lerman, www.discdish.com. January 11, 2016.

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• The great thing about being rich is, you can embrace practices that kill the poor - that's what socialism does.

  Greg Gutfeld

  Practice, Doe, Socialism

  Source: www.salon.com

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• I'd prefer people read about Churchill and how he wasn't overwhelmed by Nazi Germany. Amazing; that the morale of a country rested on one person's shoulders. Extraordinary people carried that country through its darkest hours; truly inspirational. I suppose that's my theme. Whether it's a biography or a movie; whether it's fictional or true, I'm inspired by people doing great things.

  Larry Ellison

  Inspirational, Country, People

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• [Martin] Scorsese says one of the great things he loves about it is how Mark can't get the right shot and he's killing people because he can't get the right shot. It's an example of what film-makers are like.

  Thelma Schoonmaker

  People, Example, Film

  Source: www.fluxmagazine.com

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• Serving and helping are great things, but we can go too far. Managers should not adopt poor performers. Colleagues should not cover for each other's mistakes. Parents should not enable their children.

  John G. Miller

  Children, Mistake, Parent

  Source: www.jmlalonde.com

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