Epic Quotes - Page 13

• Actually, I always dreamed about getting a gold medal in the 100-meter freestyle in Olympic swimming. I always thought that would be the epic award in sports to get.

  Chris Klein

  Sports, Swimming, Awards

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• There are epic downsides to living a somewhat public life. The upshot of that is there's nothing to hide. It's a relief in a way. There's nothing about me that can't be said.

  Natasha Lyonne

  Relief, Way, Said

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• Grey's' is just a machine. I wasn't really prepared for the epic nature of how popular the show is.

  Kevin McKidd

  Machines, Grey, Shows

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• I'm a big John Steinbeck fan. Cormac McCarthy. I've always loved the stories of regular people. Mark Twain, too. When you look back at some of the epic writers of our country's history, very rarely do you find upper-class royalty. We seem to delve into the struggle of life and the labor of life much more frequently.

  Lucas Neff

  Country, Struggle, Class

  "Raising Hope's Lucas Neff on starting stand-up and how his show apes The Simpsons". Interview with Erik Adams, www.avclub.com. February 5, 2013.

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• Steve Jobs is the most epic entrepreneur of all time. He served as a guiding light for any emerging businessperson who wanted to learn how things should get done. He'll be looked at as one of the best business leaders of all time, and certainly one of the best tech entrepreneurs.

  Aaron Levie

  Jobs, Light, Entrepreneur

  "This 26-Year Old Founder Is Raising $100 Million To Take On Giants Like Microsoft". Interview with Matt Rosoff, www.businessinsider.com. August 29, 2011.

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• On the television planet, where men make up the tribe, the law of the caveman rules. So, for a woman coming from another world, without experience or cunning, to succeed gradually in gaining control over what is to be taped, what goes out over the air, what is said without censorship, is an epic feat.

  Cristina Saralegui

  Men, Air, Law

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• Work on nothing less than epic scale

  Francis Ford Coppola

  Scales

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• I often make movies that involve depression or deep holes of sadness, although there are also these other great things in 'New Moon,' like this epic set-piece at the end of the film in Italy.

  Chris Weitz

  Sadness, Moon, Pieces

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• Evolution isn't just a take-it-or-leave-it story about where we came from. It's an epic at the centre of life itself. It tells us we are part of nature in every respect.

  Kenneth R. Miller

  Stories, Evolution, Centre

  "Seals, evolution, and the real 'missing link'" by Kenneth R Miller, www.theguardian.com. April 29, 2009.

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• Epic things start with small humble steps. Pay respect to your beginnings. And if you're just starting out, know that it's OK to be sucky. To be small. To be messy and chaotic. Just make sure to never ever stop dreaming.

  Vishen Lakhiani

  Success, Dream, Respect

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• I'm inspired by the words: 'electrifying', 'epic', 'minimalistic', 'transcendent', 'timeless' and 'rock n' roll.'

  Janelle Monae

  Rocks, Rock N Roll, Inspired

  "Janelle Monae Talks New CoverGirl Gig, Signature Style And Being Fearlessly Beautiful". Interview with Julee Wilson, www.huffingtonpost.com. September 20, 2012.

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• I've always loved the old epics that tell a simple emotional story, whether it's the tumultuous relationship between Rhett and Scarlett or Lawrence of Arabia's passion to get lost in a faraway place.

  Baz Luhrmann

  Passion, Simple, Emotional

  "How we made the epic of Oz". www.theguardian.com. November 2, 2008.

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• The capacity of human beings to bore one another seems to be vastly greater than that of any other animal. Some of their most esteemed inventions have no other apparent purpose - for example, the dinner party of more than two, the epic poem, and the science of metaphysics.

  H. L. Mencken

  Funny, Party, Humor

  H.L. Mencken (2013). “Minority Report”, p.68, Knopf

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• A simple right or left can mean life or death,
  Epic fail or nice success,
  Days of pleasure or nights of stress.

  Ka

  Nice, Stress, Rap

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• I'd love to be able to write crazy epic plots. I'm working on it.

  Jami Attenberg

  Crazy, Writing, Plot

  "'Morrissey's hair, bongs made of apples, MTV's 120 Minutes': Inside this month's hottest new books". Interview with Teddy Wayne, www.salon.com. May 20, 2015.

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• Pure draughtsmen are philosophers and dialecticians. Colourists are epic poets.

  Charles Baudelaire

  Philosopher, Poet, Colour

  Charles Baudelaire, Jonathan Mayne (1981). “Art in Paris 1845-1862: salons and other exhibitions”

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• Some people stick with the traditional, feeling struck by the epic beauty or blown away by the insane scale of the universe. Personally, I go for the old "existential meltdown followed by acting weird for the next half hour. But everyone feels something.

  Enrico Fermi

  People, Feelings, Insane

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• It was with the advent of the Laudie London era that I realized the whole teenage epic was tottering to doom.

  Colin MacInnes

  Teenage, London, Eras

  Colin MacInnes (1969). “The London novels: City of spades. Absolute beginners. Mr. Love and Justice”

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• There's never been a fantasy movie of the epic battle of good versus evil that ended with evil winning.

  David Benioff

  Winning, Evil, Battle

  "Game of Thrones Showrunners on Season 4: It Will Never Be 'The Epic Conflict of Good and Evil'". Interview with Jim Windolf, www.vanityfair.com. March 12, 2014.

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• The Great Story of our immense journey contains crucial lessons for guiding humanity safely through the dangers and confusions evident today. This grand epic will propel us forward in a spirit of expectant curiosity. We will place our trust not only in the Whole but also in our own species' capacity to serve as the vessel through which the evolutionary impulse is most active at this time.

  Michael Dowd

  Journey, Confusion, Humanity

  Michael Dowd (2008). “Thank God for Evolution: How the Marriage of Science and Religion Will Transform Your Life and Our World”, p.260, Penguin

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• One of the things that was really influential early on was Ezra Pound's Cantos, one poem he worked on for 50 years. It's epic. I had a great deal of difficulty understanding it. One of the problems was you'd be reading along in English and he would move to a Chinese ideogram or French-he actually used seven different languages in a given poem. And for somebody who's not fluent in different languages it has the impact of rupturing your way of understanding something.

  Richard Misrach

  Photography, Moving, Reading

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• In order to make a great, epic movie, you have to have the four Bs - babes, bullets, blood and blades.

  Danny Trejo

  Blood, Order, Four

  Source: collider.com

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• A great many of the epic fantasies, from The Lord of the Rings onward, are about war, but to my mind, a lot of it doesn't really deal honestly with the consequences of war, what war does to us, as a society, what war does to us, as individuals, and the struggle for power, in the same way, and what we're fighting for.

  George R. R. Martin

  War, Struggle, Fighting

  Source: collider.com

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• If you're not making epic, archetypal films on some level, I think you're wasting a great potential of cinema.

  Alexander Payne

  Thinking, Cinema, Levels

  Source: www.moviesonline.ca

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• The terror of the unforeseen is what the science of history hides, turning a disaster into an epic.

  Philip Roth

  Disaster, Terror, Unforeseen

  Philip Roth (2004). “The Plot Against America: A Novel”, p.114, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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