Brilliant Quotes - Page 40

• There are certainly good examples of incredibly brilliant, beautiful music that has been made commercially available and sold everywhere. But I would say that, for the most part, quantity certainly does not speak well for quality.

  Ian MacKaye

  Beautiful, Quality, Example

  Interview with Stephen Thompson, www.avclub.com. May 5, 1999.

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• I think Russell Crowe is a brilliant actor.

  Rebel Wilson

  Thinking, Actors

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• I love 'Shattered Glass.' It's one of my favorite movies. I think it's just brilliant.

  Steve Zahn

  Thinking, Glasses, My Favorite

  "Steve Zahn" by Nathan Rabin, www.avclub.com. July 03, 2007.

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• The hardest thing for me is planning ahead. My mom was brilliant at it.

  Faith Hill

  Mom, Planning Ahead, Hardest

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• Booking an act for my Dad's 70th birthday, I wanted a great act and went straight to John Archer- his reputation in the magic world is among the very best. I was so pleased he was able to do it, and he absolutely brought the house down. It was brilliant, hysterically funny, and perfectly pitched for the occasion. He made the evening. I'd recommend him unreservedly.

  Derren Brown

  Dad, Archer, House

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• I think Clapton is brilliant. He's the only one who moved me. The only one who made me want to play the guitar.

  Eddie Van Halen

  Thinking, Guitar, Play

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• I have long admired the visceral storytelling and moral complexity of John Vaillant’s brilliant non-fiction about humankind’s tragically ambivalent relationship with the natural world. Now he brings his abundant literary gifts to a debut novel set in a very real borderland in which human beings are themselves treated like animals. The Jaguar’s Children is a beautifully rendered lament for an imperiled culture and the brave lives that would preserve it. You should read it.

  John Burnham Schwartz

  Children, Real, Animal

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• Great managers know they don't have 10 salespeople working for them. They know they have 10 individuals working for them . A great manager is brilliant at spotting the unique differences that separate each person and then capitalizing on them.

  Marcus Buckingham

  Unique, Differences, Great Men

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• John Carmack, who has become interested in focusing on things other than game development at id, has resigned from the studio. John’s work on id Tech 5 and the technology for the current development work at id is complete, and his departure will not affect any current projects. We are fortunate to have a brilliant group of programmers at id who worked with John and will carry on id’s tradition of making great games with cutting-edge technology. As colleagues of John for many years, we wish him well.

  Tim Willits

  Cutting, Technology, Years

  "Doom Creator John Carmack Officially Leaves id Software". Interview with Mitch Dyer, www.ign.com. November 22, 2013.

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• Any great character is the combination of a brilliant actor and the right writing.

  Brad Falchuk

  Writing, Character, Actors

  "We're All Gleeks - 10 Questions for Glee Co-Creator Brad Falchuk". Wired Interview, www.wired.com. December 7, 2009.

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• Filming is always a challenge because I'm not used to it. But I approach it head-on. I'm not technically brilliant, but it's the spirit that counts.

  Martin Parr

  Challenges, Spirit, Used

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• The friendship of Shostakovich cast a brilliant light over my whole life and whose spiritual qualities captured my soul once and for all time.

  Galina Vishnevskaya

  Friendship, Spiritual, Light

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• I know the rewards of focusing on innovation and outcomes as opposed to hours. I've been fortunate to work with brilliant entrepreneurs who didn't have years of experience and yet they changed the world.

  Maynard Webb

  Years, Entrepreneur, Innovation

  "Meritocracy: Overcoming the Fear Factor" by Maynard Webb, www.huffingtonpost.com. June 24, 2010.

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• In Britain, eponymous lifestyle branding as we know it started in the late 1960s, with two fascinating families - the Conrans and the Ashleys - who in increasingly brilliant settings and catalogues sold rather different visions of what the new ideal upper-middle-y life looked like.

  Peter York

  Two, Vision, Different

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• RoboCop the first movie was fantastic. But even if there was no movie, the concept of RoboCop is brilliant, first because it lends itself to a lot of social criticism, but also because it poses a question, 'When do you lose your humanity?

  Jose Padilha

  Humanity, Criticism, Firsts

  "Exclusive: José Padilha Shares His Take on RoboCop" by Edward Douglas, www.comingsoon.net. November 7, 2011.

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• I've just finished reading a book about the brilliant Margaret Rutherford. She wasn't a beauty, but inside she was absolutely blazing and passionate about her work. She's one of those life-affirming characters.

  Sophie Thompson

  Book, Reading, Character

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• Martin Sheen is my pinup! And Allison Janney, oh my God. They're brilliant actors.

  Sophie Thompson

  Actors, Pinup, Allison

  "Sophie Thompson: 'I haven't played Hedda Gabler yet, but maybe if I did I'd find the funny bits'". Interview with Gemma Kappala-Ramsamy, www.theguardian.com. February 5, 2011.

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• And each forgets, as he strips and runs With a brilliant, fitful pace, It's the steady, quiet, plodding ones Who win in the lifelong race. And each forgets that his youth has fled, Forgets that his prime is past, Till he stands one day, with a hope that's dead, In the glare of the truth at last.

  Robert W. Service

  Running, Failure, Winning

  Robert W. Service (2012). “Robert W. Service: Selected Poetry and Prose”, p.46, Dundurn

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• Doing work you love is the dizzying path of saying yes to yourself and yes to a brilliant, hidden self you do not yet know.

  Tama J. Kieves

  Peace, Passion, Love Is

  Tama J. Kieves (2004). “This Time I Dance!: Trusting the Journey of Creating the Work You Love”, Tarcher

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• I think you either have to have a very strong decisive person at the top or else a really brilliant staff command.

  Hunter S. Thompson

  Strong, Thinking, Staff

  Source: www.rollingstone.com

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• I've got like a weird bond with horses. I'm kind of a horse whisperer, I don't know what it is. I'm not great on a horse. I'm getting better, but I'm not brilliant. So yeah, I've spent a lot of time with horses. They're great creatures, I love them. I do love riding them when I get the chance to.

  Kit Harington

  Horse, Get Better, Riding

  Source: collider.com

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• It makes it easier, if you can't do an American accent. I don't know. It's different. I played a character in Never Let Me Go where the script for my character was very sparse, and I enjoyed it. With Never Let Me Go, I had a whole book written from my character's point of view, so I always knew where I was. But, with Ryan [Gosling], it was just easy. He's such a brilliant actor and he is so prepared. He doesn't have to warm himself up to be in a scene. He's just in it. It draws you in, in a way.

  Carey Mulligan

  Book, Character, Views

  Source: collider.com

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• When somebody's ego is in service of really brilliant, innovative work, it's hard to, cause I'm such an asshole, it's hard to criticize their failures as a human sometimes.

  Claire Danes

  Ego, Causes, Sometimes

  "Zac Efron and Claire Danes Interview ME AND ORSON WELLES". Interview with Steve 'Frosty' Weintraub, collider.com. November 24, 2009.

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• For every monarchy overthrown the sky becomes less brilliant, because it loses a star. A republic is ugliness set free.

  Anatole France

  Stars, Sky, Republic

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• The painter wanders and loiters contentedly from place to place, always on the lookout for some brilliant butterfly of a picture which can be caught and carried safely home.

  Winston Churchill

  Home, Butterfly, Journey

  Winston Churchill (1965). “A Man of Destiny: Winston S. Churchill”

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