Great Things Quotes - Page 13

• The great thing about writing about the ancient Spartans or Athenians is that so much knowledge is no longer extant that no one, except maybe a Cambridge or Oxford don, can call you out and prove you wrong.

  Steven Pressfield

  Writing, Oxford, Ancient

  Interview with Will Duquette, www.patheos.com. May 21, 2014.

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• With women, you always have to make an educated decision to figure out what they're thinking. It's not one that's necessarily sympathetic, always. Of course, we're all human beings, but the gender thing is big thing. And a great thing.

  Will Oldham

  Thinking, Decision, Gender

  Interview with Ryan Schreiber, pitchfork.com. September 1, 2001.

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• One of the great things about movies is that it's just that short period of time. It's a bubble. The last thing you want to know is that Elizabeth and Darcy had a fight over how to treat the servants!

  Nora Ephron

  Fighting, Want, Lasts

  Nora Ephron (2015). “Nora Ephron: The Last Interview: and Other Conversations”, p.66, Melville House

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• Imagination is a great thing in long dull hours, but it's a real curse in a dark alley.

  Zilpha Keatley Snyder

  Real, Dark, Imagination

  Zilpha Keatley Snyder (2012). “The Egypt Game”, p.181, Simon and Schuster

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• Sunset is a wonderful opportunity for us to appreciate all the great things the sun gives us!

  Mehmet Murat Ildan

  Sunset, Opportunity, Appreciate

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• Art achieves all little things by absolute truth: but all her great things need some admixture of illusion.

  Richard B. Garnett

  Art, Needs, Littles

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• a great mind can attend to little things, but a little mind cannot attend to great things.

  Lydia M. Child

  Mind, Littles, Little Things

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• There's no safety in love. You risk the whole of life. But the great thing is to risk -to believe, and to risk everything for your belief.

  Elizabeth von Arnim

  Love You, Believe, Safety

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• The great thing about theater is that you have so much time to prepare, and to fail, before presenting it to the public. In film, the high-wire act seems to be that much farther up, and the net seems to be less there.

  Chris Pine

  Wire, Film, Failing

  "Chris Pine Remains People Like Us". Interview with Ann Lieber, www.theatermania.com. June 29, 2012.

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• FX does a great thing with its comedies where they give them a slow push out there.

  Paul Scheer

  Giving, Doe, Comedy

  Interview with Steve Heisler, www.avclub.com. December 10, 2010.

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• I think the legacy we leave is our family. I don't think it's money. I don't think it's - I'm not saying that charity isn't a great thing. I just think that it's my family. Even now I look and I think, God, I'm lucky if I lost it all.

  Michael Buble

  Thinking, Lucky, Looks

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• I did great things in the theater. I did some nice roles, The Diving Bell and the Butterfly or La Vie en Rose. And I love my role in Frantic.

  Emmanuelle Seigner

  Nice, Butterfly, Rose

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• We must be young to do great things.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Youth, Young, Be Young

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Johann Peter Eckermann (2014). “Conversations of Goethe with Johann Peter Eckermann”, p.293, Ravenio Books

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• Therefore, if at great things thou wouldst arrive,
  Get riches first, get wealth.

  John Milton

  Riches, Firsts, Wealth

  John Milton (2007). “Complete Shorter Poems”, p.460, Pearson Education

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• He alone is worthy of the appellation who either does great things, or teaches how they may be done, or describes them with a suitable majesty when they have been done; but those only are great things which tend to render life more happy, which increase the innocent enjoyments and comforts of existence, or which pave the way to a state of future bliss more permanent and more pure.

  John Milton

  Greatness, Doe, Done

  John Milton (1851). “The Prose Works of John Milton: With a Biographical Introduction”, p.495

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• The great thing about 'Allen Gregory' is that we try to make it really questionable that the things he says have happened, have really happened. We like that ambiguity.

  Jonah Hill

  Trying, Ambiguity, Questionable

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• The great thing about a name like 'Cougar Town' is that you hear it once and you remember it forever. Its a very loud title. But there's a connection to the word 'cougar' that means a lot of people are going to be turned off right away by the title alone without even giving the show a chance.

  Dan Byrd

  Mean, Names, Giving

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Anytime I'm given scripts where I'm sort of the fantasy girl, it's hard for me because that's not real and I don't think it's a great thing to put out there consistently.

  Mary Elizabeth Winstead

  Girl, Real, Thinking

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• There are so many great things in life; why dwell on negativity?

  Zendaya

  Things In Life, Negativity

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• For me, getting older doesnt mean throwing away a favourite-coloured lipstick or a fabulous pair of boots; instead, its about harnessing all the great things I have learnt over the years about what does and doesnt suit me, and enjoying the way in which cleverly selected outfits can enhance the nice bits.

  Twiggy

  Nice, Mean, Years

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• It seems like people my age are over-protected today, even to the point where a lot of parents refuse to put their kids in the position to make important decisions, to aspire to great things, because they don't want to put them in a position to fail.

  Abby Sunderland

  Kids, People, Decision

  Abby Sunderland, Lynn Vincent (2011). “Unsinkable: A Young Woman's Courageous Battle on the High Seas”, p.92, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• It was easy in the early nineties to make a list of great things that could be done, now that there was such a convenient source of entangled pairs. Anton's claim to fame is that he went and did them.

  Anton Zeilinger

  Pairs, Lists, Done

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• Without earnestness no man is ever great, or does really great things. He may be the cleverest of men; he may be brilliant, entertaining, popular; but he will want weight. No soul-moving picture was ever painted that had not in it depth of shadow.

  Peter Bayne

  Moving, Men, Soul

  Peter Bayne (1879). “Lessons from My Masters, Carlyle, Tennyson and Ruskin”

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• The thing one resents about winter is its inactivity; the perpetual sameness of ice-armored hills and snow-blanketed woods. Great things, of course, may be going on underneath; but nature wears a mask, is icily non-committal.

  Anne Bosworth Greene

  Winter, Ice, Snow

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• Fantasy fans are incredibly loyal and passionate. Other people don't want to be seen as passionate about things, they want to be cool and laconic. The great thing about fantasy fans is they'll really get behind a show.

  John Bradley-West

  People, Want, Fans

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