Brilliant Quotes - Page 34

• I have no plans for a future Jemima Shore mystery, but would write one tomorrow if a good idea came to me.

  Antonia Fraser

  Writing, Ideas, Tomorrow

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• Some stars like to hide behind the whole idea of acting. But really good actors are not hiding at all. They're not afraid to be disliked, to be a little unsavory.

  Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio

  Stars, Ideas, Acting

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I'm no interior decorator, but just I have a feeling that plastic plants in the bathroom... probably not a good idea.

  Kyan Douglas

  Ideas, Feelings, Bathroom

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I had no idea that it was gonna take off the way it did. I thought we made a good movie.

  Morgan Spurlock

  Ideas, Good Movie, Way

  Interview With Jeff Otto, www.ign.com. May 4, 2004.

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• It's not a good idea to put your wife into a novel; not your latest wife anyway.

  Norman Mailer

  Writing, Ideas, Wife

  Norman Mailer, Michael Lennon (1988). “Conversations with Norman Mailer”, p.90, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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• Sequels are very rarely a good idea, and in any case, the success of the book changed my relationship with the club in some ways.

  Nick Hornby

  Book, Ideas, Clubs

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• It is a good idea to know which publishers publish which stories. For example, there is no sense in sending a picture book text to a publisher who does not publish picture books.

  Margaret Mahy

  Book, Ideas, Example

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• I've never seen bad drawing destroy a good idea. On the other hand, I've never seen a good drawing save a bad idea.

  Paul Conrad

  Hands, Ideas, Drawing

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• That's why I ended up leaving school - because it required so much time, and it was such an excellent idea. I figured I would regret not going full force with this idea. It seemed we could make something of it.

  Shawn Fanning

  Regret, School, Ideas

  "Q&A: Napster creator Shawn Fanning". Interview with Giancarlo Varanini, www.zdnet.com. March 3, 2000.

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• We need to take excellent care of our customers, and do so at a profit.

  Gerard Arpey

  Needs, Care, Excellent

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• When all the performances are excellent, critics understand it's the direction.

  Joel Siegel

  Excellent, Critics, Performances

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• My older brother Mike is an excellent trumpet player. By the time he was 12, he was playing around Kansas City in classical situations. He was already an amazing talent.

  Pat Metheny

  Brother, Player, Cities

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• The pretended admission of a fault on our part creates an excellent impression.

  Quintilian

  Faults, Excellent, Impression

  Quintilian (2015). “Delphi Complete Works of Quintilian (Illustrated)”, p.1829, Delphi Classics

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• I always made my food congenial to my constitution, and my health was always excellent.

  Giacomo Casanova

  Constitution, Excellent, Made

  Giacomo Casanova (2013). “The Memoirs of Jacques Casanova de Seingalt Volume 1: The Venetian Years”, p.27, Simon and Schuster

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• My education at Baron Byng High School was excellent, with dedicated masters (boys and girls were separate).

  Rudolph A. Marcus

  Girl, School, Boys

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• If it's an excellent script, I enjoy it tremendously, the acting part of it.

  Julie London

  Acting, Scripts, Excellent

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• The scenes in the show were filmed with a crew of really excellent stunt jumpers, but we had the feel of the parachutes, so we could be more realistic in the roles.

  Ken Curtis

  Roles, Realistic, Scene

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• But I just really think there is a natural extension into other types of media because it's an excellent system for reliably locating and retrieving content.

  Shawn Fanning

  Thinking, Media, Excellent

  "Q&A: Napster creator Shawn Fanning". Interview with Giancarlo Varanini, www.zdnet.com. March 3, 2000.

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• One of the attractive things about being in Scotland is that we have a very good pipeline of new people coming into the company from the excellent universities around us.

  David Milne

  Attractive Things, Scotland, People

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• Excellent education and an excellent environment are two hallmarks of our state. How we treat our environment is connected to so many other opportunities in Maine.

  John Baldacci

  Opportunity, Two, Maine

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• MPC, Moving Picture Company, they're really excellent, they did the majority of the effects.

  Ridley Scott

  Moving, Majority, Excellent

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• One should be willing to throw away a dozen ideas to come up with a good one, just as one should throw away a dozen words to come up with the right one.

  James Gunn

  Ideas, Dozen, Should

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• Neophyte writers tend to believe that there is something magical about ideas and that if they can just get a hold of a good one, then their futures are ensured.

  Lynn Abbey

  Believe, Ideas, Literature

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• We had to do the same thing here. To top that sequel was quite a task. Mike had a couple of good conceptual humour and character ideas, which got me back into it.

  Jay Roach

  Couple, Character, Ideas

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• The other thing that I started doing for myself was, I went through my diary of ideas that I keep and made sure that the translation of the comic to the movie was good.

  Guillermo del Toro

  Ideas, Diaries, Comic

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