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• The great thing about it is, in Hollywood, certain people are very good at keeping their lives and who they are very private. I've never met anybody as down to earth and cool in Hollywood than Matt Damon.

  Anthony Mackie

  People, Earth, Hollywood

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• The great thing about having spent all this time on film sets is that I've been able to watch directors and how they work. I now know that this is what I want to do as well: to tell stories visually. But it's definitely my vision that I want to put across, nobody else's.

  Catherine McCormack

  Vision, Directors, Watches

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

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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, Epic, Moon

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• The great thing about my life is that everything I've done is a result of what I was when I was 12 or 13.

  Ray Bradbury

  Done, Life Is, Results

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• Change is never easy, and it often creates discord, but when people come together for the good of humanity and the Earth, we can accomplish great things.

  David Suzuki

  People, Humanity, Together

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• In talking to founder after founder; I've heard almost visceral reactions to working for companies, even very cool ones with great things to work on and lots of opportunity, like Facebook, Google, or consulting firms.

  Maynard Webb

  Opportunity, Talking, Google

  "There’s Something Happening Here: Entrepreneurship and the Decline of Corporate Appeal" by Maynard Webb, www.huffingtonpost.com. November 26, 2011.

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• Great things are accomplished by those who do not feel the impotence of man. This is a precious gift.

  Paul Valery

  Ignorance, Men, Precious Gifts

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• Avoid trivial pursuits. You are a child of God, destined for glory, and called to do great things in His Name. Do not waste your life on hobbies, sports, and other recreational pursuits. Do not throw away the precious moments of your life on entertainment, movies, and video games. Though some of these things can properly have a 'small place' in the Christian's life, we must be careful not to give undue attention to temporal and fruitless activities. Do not waste your life. Employ the time of your youth in developing the character and skills necessary to be a useful servant of God.

  Paul Washer

  Faith, Sports, Christian

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• 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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• 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 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 Church does not invent sins but recognizes the will of God and has to declare it. Of course, the great thing.. is that upon the Church, which has to declare the will of God in its full magnitude, in its unconditional rigor, so that man should know his true measure, is bestowed as a gift, at the same time, the task of forgiving.

  Pope Benedict XVI

  Men, Forgiving, Church

  Pope Benedict XVI, Peter Seewald (2002). “God and the World: Believing and Living in Our Time : a Conversation with Peter Seewald”, p.46, Ignatius Press

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• I don't get any parts I don't get offered. There are lots of great things out there I would like to do that I don't get offered.

  Aidan Quinn

  Parting

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• When you get up in the morning and know you're doing something you love, feel fit and look after yourself, it's just a great thing to do.

  Jermain Defoe

  Morning, Looks, Fit

  "Tottenham's Jermain Defoe eyes 'great feeling' of being just 19th man to score 20 goals for England" by Martin Lipton, www.mirror.co.uk. May 30, 2013.

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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