Great Things Quotes - Page 12

• To be shapely when you're in the seventh grade is not exactly what everyone's looking for, or they weren't then, as someone was telling me the other day. now, that's like a really great thing to do, to be, but then it wasn't.

  Katey Sagal

  Grades, Really Great, Things To Do

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• It's a risky thing to pray and the danger is that our very prayers get between God and us. The great thing in prayer is not to pray, but to go directly to God. . . . The fact is, though, that if you descend into the depths of your own spirit and arrive somewhere near the center of what you are, you are confronted with the inescapable truth that, at the very root of your existence, you are in constant and immediate contact with the infinite power of God.

  Thomas Merton

  Prayer, Roots, Facts

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• The great thing about novels is that you can be as unshy as you want to be. I'm very polite in person. I don't want to talk about startling or upsetting things with people.

  Nicholson Baker

  People, Upset, Want

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• I just thought that I had had my fill for a while and wanted to have a family. My husband was moving to Chicago for his job. And so I went along. And it was a great thing that I did.

  Lauren Holly

  Jobs, Husband, Moving

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• I think politicians do great things in the world, but I don't think they're the only ones who can. I don't like all the rhetoric and the finger pointing.

  Lauren Bush

  Thinking, World, Politician

  "He's a really good guy". Interview with Hadley Freeman, www.theguardian.com. December 13, 2007.

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• Our world was Northern, black and white, so it was a great thing for my sisters and me to sit down at Christmastime and watch these fabulous MGM musicals. All that color, all those beautiful costumes.

  Tracie Bennett

  Beautiful, Black And White, Our World

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• But the great thing, and the horrible thing about the web is you can just throw stuff up there and it doesn't cost anybody anything.

  Eric Avery

  Cost, Stuff, Horrible

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• The great thing about using the past is that it gives you the most colossal freedom to invent. The research is necessary, of course, but no one writes a novel to dramatically illustrate what everybody already knows.

  Peter Carey

  Writing, Past, Giving

  "An Interview With Author Peter Carey". Interview with Ben Evans, www.huffingtonpost.com. October 6, 2010.

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• I love doing action scenes, there's that great thing when you sort of stop acting because if you're running, you're not acting like you're running, you are just actually running.

  Sarah Wayne Callies

  Running, Acting, Action

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• Castle Rock and New Line each have their strengths, but the great thing about New Line is that they are a real focused-market, niche-market player who understand franchises. They probably understand the franchise business in motion pictures better than anyone else out there.

  Fred Seibert

  Real, Player, Rocks

  "Q&A with Hanna-Barbera president Fred Seibert". Interview with Phil Gallo and Richard Setlowe, variety.com. March 23, 1994.

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• I'm just more into playing golf. It's a great thing.

  Kenny G

  Golf, Playing Golf

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

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• One of the great things about the 'Iron Man' franchise is that they employ fascinating actors who don't necessarily do action movies. Before 'Iron Man' you didn't associate Robert Downey, Jr. and Gwyneth Paltrow with those kinds of films. There's an emphasis on repartee and wit.

  Rebecca Hall

  Men, Iron, Actors

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• I don't think if you asked any of my childhood friends they would say that I had a weird childhood; they might say there weren't a lot of regular rules, the conversations in the house were always very open, dreams were a great thing to talk about, everybody was making something all the time.

  Jennifer Lynch

  Dream, Thinking, House

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• To accomplish great things we must first dream, then visualize, then plan.

  Alfred Armand Montapert

  Dream, Vision, Firsts

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• I'm happy with the success I've had, and I feel like there's been a lot that I've learned this year, and that's a great thing going into the future.

  Rory McIlroy

  Golf, Years, I've Learned

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• I'm kind of spoiled, but the great thing about life is that you never know what's around the corner.

  Stockard Channing

  Kind, Life Is, Spoiled

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

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• I've written some great things. That's a gift, but there's consequences. Yeah, you get this great work, but you suffer. You really, really suffer.

  Frank Ocean

  Suffering, Great Work, Yeah

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• I never even dreamt of being a writer because I didn't feel allowed. When I was a child I was terribly ambitious, but I didn't know at all what this great thing would become.

  Amelie Nothomb

  Children, Ambitious, Amelie

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• The great thing about our system of democracy is when they call you for jury duty, you have to come... It's an honor and a privilege. I was called and I've got to be here.

  Antonio Villaraigosa

  Honor, Democracy, Privilege

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• One of the great things about Ben & Jerry's for me is that not only is it delicious, but I get it for free.

  Jerry Greenfield

  Jerry, Delicious

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• The great thing about filming a film is that you all have your final day's shooting, but you always know that you're all going to be coming back for the premiere.

  Matthew Lewis

  Finals, Shooting, Film

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

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• I have good relationships with Hillary Clinton, Joseph Biden and especially Richard Holbrooke - he is my teacher. I learned a lot of great things from him.

  Mikhail Saakashvili

  Teacher, Good Relationship, Biden

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• It's actually cool to be positive and optimistic and idealistic. It's cool to see yourself doing beautiful, great things.

  Tom DeLonge

  Beautiful, Optimistic, Being Positive

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• One of the great things about turning 30 is figuring out how to dress comfortably and still look good.

  Cobie Smulders

  Dresses, Looks, Turning 30

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• It's always just a great thing to see your kids connecting and you see the different stages.

  Christine Taylor

  Kids, Different, Stage

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

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