Big Deal Quotes - Page 6

I used to take myself very seriously, now it's all just funny. You gotta laugh at yourself. You know, most of the time when something's a big deal for us, it's only become a big deal in the space between our ears.

Gillian Anderson

Space, Laughing, Ears

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I think people sometimes get the wrong impression when they're like, Oh, well, so-and-so was straight and then she was gay, and now she's straight again, you know? But it's like, how many times do I have to kiss a woman before I'm gay? Everybody wants to label people. Sometimes you just fall in love with somebody, and you're really not thinking about what gender or whatever they happen to be. It think that if I happen to fall in love with a woman, everyone's going to make a big deal out of it. But if I happen to fall in love with a man, nobody cares.

Lucy Liu

Falling In Love, Gay, Kissing

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For a while, the gay thing seemed like such a big deal. But now, I don't think it is. It's just a comedy-drama about people who live in the United States. It's a slice-of-life. I play a character-that's it. But I was well aware of the gay lifestyle before the show. I've been hit on in a really strong way by gay men who've tried to convert me, and a lot of my heroes are gay. William Burroughs, Lou Reed. Well, I guess Lou Reed is bi. The point is, it's 2002, gay life is no longer that shocking.

Gale Harold

Strong, Drama, Hero

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It's an under-represented demographic and it's a really loyal fan base and it's really nice to play those roles without making a big deal about it or making too much comment, because the more we normalise it the better. You're not defined by your sexuality but by what you do.

Jaime Murray

Nice, Play, Fans

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I sound like a damn commercial, but half the crap in this house is from Wal-mart. The big deal about Wal-mart is that its open 24 hours.

Corbin Bernsen

House, Half, Sound

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Wanderer, there is no road, the road is made by walking. The poem tells me it’s no big deal that I’m not like Snow. I can be another thing; I’m meant to be another thing.

Helen Oyeyemi

Snow, Made, Bigs

Helen Oyeyemi (2014). “Boy, Snow, Bird”, p.108, Pan Macmillan

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So I was smacked up on the Prime Minister's jet – big deal.

Will Self

Prime, Ministers, Bigs

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That’s one of the nice things about writing, or any art; if the thing’s real, it just lives. All the attendant hoopla about it, the success over it or the critical rejection—none of that really matters. In the end, the thing will survive or not on its own merits. Not that immortality via art is any big deal. Truffaut died, and we all felt awful about it, and there were the appropriate eulogies, and his wonderful films live on. But it’s not much help to Truffaut.

Woody Allen

Art, Real, Nice

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Wimbledon is not the tournament I love. I don't like how they treat the players. There are small things that don't cost them anything and they make such a big deal out of it. If they treat us this way, well, we have to treat them the same. We want to be respected, the way we respect Wimbledon, even if it is not the best Grand Slam on earth.

Marat Safin

Player, Cost, Earth

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Wearing a dress shows I can be as feminine as I want. I'm a heterosexual...big deal, but if I was a homosexual, it wouldn't matter, either.

Kurt Cobain

Dresses, Want, Matter

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It's a big deal when you finally get the chance to do the one thing you want to do - need to do - more than anything. It can kind of scare the crap out of you.

Sarah Dessen

Scare, Needs, Want

"Just Listen". Book by Sarah Dessen, April 6, 2006.

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The NBA wasn't a big deal at that time, so it wasn't really in my career plans.

Bob Cousy

Basketball, Nba, Careers

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When you can make it this simple, though, just do the right thing. Even if you could get away with less. Even when other people are doing the wrong thing. Even though the wrong thing seems like no big deal.

Price Pritchett

Simple, People, Justice

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People think they need to be at a ski-inski-out resort, but the reality is it's not such a big deal to jump on a shuttle.

Craig Cook

Reality, Thinking, People

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I'm a pretty big dork. It's crazy. I'm one of those people who grew up with all kinds of musicals, but I was right at that age where 'Rent' was a big deal for me and for my friends.

Anna Kendrick

Crazy, People, Age

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But in a lot of ways my poems are very conventional, and it's no big deal for me to write a poem in either free verse or strict form; modern poets can, and do, do both.

Andrew Motion

Writing, Way, Modern

"Ode to a right royal charmer". Interview With Euan Ferguson, www.theguardian.com. July 23, 2000.

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For recovery, I think it's a big deal to eat within a half-hour after you exercise. Otherwise I just try to put carbs into my system before I swim and then load up on the protein after. I don't count calories. Whether it's Sour Patch Kids or Reese's or a bag of chips, if I feel like eating it, I'm going to eat it.

Michael Phelps

Recovery, Kids, Exercise

"Olympic Champ Michael Phelps Bares Chest on Cover of 'Details': The 27-year-old gold medalist hopes to make a big splash in London". Details Magazine Interview, www.hollywoodreporter.com. July 10, 2012.

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Isn't it refreshing to know that what comes perfectly natural for you is your greatest strength? Your power is in your nature. You may not think it's a big deal that you can spend hours immersed in something that interests you-alone-but the extrovert next door has no idea how you do it.

Laurie Helgoe

Thinking, Doors, Ideas

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I wanted to project myself forward to age 80 and say, ‘OK, I’m looking back on my life. I want to minimise the number of regrets I have.’ And I knew that when I was 80, I was not going to regret having tried this. I was not going to regret trying to participate in this thing called the Internet that I thought was going to be a really big deal. I knew that if I failed, I wouldn’t regret that. But I knew the one thing I might regret is not ever having tried. I knew that that would haunt me every day.

Jeff Bezos

Regret, Numbers, Age

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I'm very new to the industry. I'm not on the Billboard 200 and that is alarming to me. But when I sat down with my management they said it's not a big deal and that it happens all the time.

Justin Guarini

Management, Bigs, Said

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To pronounce something clever and honest is not such a big deal, lots of them have been said and written. For a statement of truth to be effective and for it to make people wiser, it has to be filtered through the soul of a highest quality, the soul of an artist.

Alexander Ostrovsky

Clever, Artist, People

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Growing older is not such a big deal for me, despite the fears that older actresses have in Hollywood. When I hit 40, for example, I didn't feel 40 - or whatever that is supposed to feel like.

Halle Berry

Hollywood, Example, Growing

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Winning a Nobel Prize is no big deal, but winning it with an IQ of 124 is really something.

Richard P. Feynman

Winning, Bigs, Nobel

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When you first get into television it is a big deal, then you realize you are no better than anyone else, we just have a platform to use, to help other people. I use that platform for the work I do in the military, the work I do with cancer because I was fortunate enough to get that platform.

Robert Irvine

Military, Cancer, Helping Others

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People are really hesitant about expressing that they don't know something - but what's the big deal? I'm not ashamed about that at all.

Tracy McGrady

People, Bigs, Ashamed

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