Great Things Quotes - Page 21

• Often, I go and see films where I can see the beats coming. So, if I read something where I don't see the beats coming and it takes me somewhere unexpected, that's a great thing to build upon.

  David Brooks

  Unexpected, Film, Beats

  "Director David Brooks ATM Interview". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. April 4, 2012.

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• I didn't want to do a costume drama. It's a great thing to do, but I've done them, and I didn't want to do the same thing again. Of course, costume dramas can be from all different eras, but at the time, I just felt very sure that I didn't want to be boxed in as an English actress. I wanted to be an actress, rather than an English actress.

  Carey Mulligan

  Drama, Different, Done

  Source: collider.com

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• Sometimes great things come from doing things quickly and not over-thinking stuff.

  Jamie Bell

  Thinking, Stuff, Sometimes

  "Jamie Bell's History Lesson". Interview with Emma Brown, www.interviewmagazine.com. April 9, 2014.

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• It is always the adventurous who accomplish great things.

  Baron de Montesquieu

  Adventure, Adventurous, Accomplish

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• You cannot be disciplined in great things and undisciplined in small things.

  George S. Patton

  Discipline, Undisciplined, Small Things

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• Our Lord God doesn't do great things except by violence, as they say

  Martin Luther

  Violence, Lord, Lord God

  Martin Luther (1967). “Table talk”

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• If at great things thou would'st arrive, Get riches first, get wealth, and treasure heap, Not difficult, if thou hearken to me; Riches are mine, fortune is in my hand, They whom I favor thrive in wealth amain, While virtue, valor, wisdom, sit in want.

  John Milton

  Ambition, Hands, Treasure

  John Milton (1785). “Paradise Regain'd: A Poem, in Four Books. To which is Added Samson Agonistes: and Poems Upon Several Occasions. The Author John Milton. A New Edition. With Notes of Various Authors, by Thomas Newton, ...”, p.92

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• Joking decides great things, Stronger and better oft than earnest can.

  John Milton

  Stronger, Earnest

  John Milton (1829). “Paradise Lost: Paradise Regained”

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• I think now that the great thing is not so much the formulation of an answer for myself, for the theatre, or the play - but rather the most accurate possible statement of the problem.

  Arthur Miller

  Thinking, Play, Theatre

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• I believe that it may happen that one will succeed, and one must not begin to despair, even though defeated here and there; and even though one sometimes feels a kind of decay, though things go differently from the expected, it is necessary to take heart again and new courage. For the great things are not done by impulse, but by a series of small things brought together. And great things are not something accidental, but must certainly be willed. What is drawing? How does one learn it? It is working through an invisible iron wall that seems to stand between what one feels and what one can do.

  Vincent Van Gogh

  Wall, Believe, Heart

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• The great thing about American women is their energy and the way they love to dress.

  Jean Paul Gaultier

  Energy, Dresses, Way

  "Fashion Spotlight: Jean Paul Gaultier" by Anne Slowey, www.elle.com. January 21, 2010.

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• The great thing about writing: Stay with it ... ultimately you teach yourself something very important about yourself.

  Bernard Malamud

  Writing, Important, About Yourself

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• It is a great thing to have a big brain, a fertile imagination, grand ideals, but the man with these, bereft of a good backbone, is sure to serve no useful end.

  George Matthew Adams

  Men, Imagination, Brain

  George Matthew Adams (2016). “You Can: A Collection of Brief Talks on the Most Important Topic in the World-Your Success”, p.28, Ravenio Books

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• It's not a college degree that makes a writer. The great thing is to have a story to tell.

  Polly Adler

  Writing, College, Degrees

  Polly Adler (1953). “A House is Not a Home”, p.374, Univ of Massachusetts Press

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• To be filled with God, is a great thing; to be filled with the fulness of God, is still greater; to be filled with all the fulness of God, is greatest of all.

  Adam Clarke

  Fullness, Filled, Stills

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• The great thing about being 30 is that there are a great deal more available women. The young ones look younger and the old ones don't look nearly as old.

  Glenn Frey

  Looks, Aging, Young

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• When I write about my childhood I think, oh my God, how did I ever get from there to here? Not that any great thing has happened to me. But I felt so tiny, so lost.

  Paul Theroux

  Writing, Thinking, Childhood

  "Travel is nasty". Interview with Emma Brockes, www.theguardian.com. June 9, 2003.

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• In great things it is enough even to have willed.

  Propertius

  Enough

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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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• Before death overpowers us, we have great things to accomplish by performing right actions.

  Mata Amritanandamayi

  Before Death, Action, Accomplish

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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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• The great thing about being a novelist is that you organize your own day.

  Sophie Kinsella

  Novelists, Organize

  "Between the Lines with Sophie Kinsella". Interview with Andrea Sachs, content.time.com. July 21, 2005.

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• The great thing about Ticketmaster is that it's seen as the comprehensive site for ticketing, artist information, venue information. We're a marketing platform, not just a technology platform, and we're going to build on it.

  Irving Azoff

  Artist, Technology, Marketing

  "Business Matters: Irving Azoff On Battling Business Models; Spotify; YouTube + RightsFlow" by Glenn Peoples, www.billboard.com. February 10, 2011.

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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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