Has Beens Quotes - Page 21

• A lot of people have been quite surprised with the stuff that I'm doing on my own, which shocks me because I've always known what I wanted to do. But people have only seen me with the Spice Girls, so I suppose it's not that surprising.

  Melanie Chisholm

  Girl, People, Spices

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• It has been a difficult road this year, but still I look at every day as a new opportunity.

  Michael Chang

  Opportunity, Years, Looks

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• In a daydream sort of way, I think it would be pretty cool to direct a movie. But I have been on movie and TV sets and know it is hard work. I like directing it in my mind. It is easier.

  Michael Connelly

  Hard Work, Thinking, Mind

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• Those three chords were part of my life - G, F, Bb - yeh, it is, it is, and I can't help noticing it. But there have been other things nearly as close to it which people haven't noticed, other things we have done.

  Ray Davies

  People, Three, Done

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• I live for the Red Sox. I thoroughly enjoy them. For whatever reason, baseball has been a lot more fun for me in recent years. I loosely follow the Patriots and I root for them. I loosely follow the Celtics and then it gets to playoff time and I don't miss a game. Same with the Bruins. I'm not the diehard fan anymore.

  Doug Flutie

  Baseball, Fun, Years

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• There have been linkages between the Iraqi government and al-Qaeda going back more or less a decade.

  Douglas J. Feith

  Government, Als, Linkages

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• The corals do not look much worn, but still appear to have been dead. There are some delicate shells of molluscs from depths beyond 500 fathoms, where they were certainly living.

  Edward Forbes

  Depth, Looks, Shells

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• I am for gay marriage. Or same-sex marriage. I don't want to say it the wrong way. I think people are sensitive to it. I have been painted as being this right-wing zealot on choice. Nothing could be further from the truth.

  Harold Ford, Jr.

  Sex, Gay, Thinking

  Interview with Michael Barbaro, www.nytimes.com. January 12, 2010.

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• If you look at how long the Earth has been here, we're living in the blink of an eye. So, whatever it is you want to do, you go out and do it.

  Jamie Foxx

  Eye, Long, Looks

  "Anne Hathaway, Jamie Foxx, George Lopez and Carlos Saldanha Interview RIO". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. January 31, 2011.

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• This whole career has been way more than I ever even imagined or dreamed.

  Jennie Finch

  Careers, Way, Whole

  "Softball star Finch set to retire", www.foxnews.com. July 20, 2010.

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• Historically the director has been the key creative element in a film and we must maintain that. We must protect that, in spite of the fact that there is new technology that's continually trying to erode that.

  John Frankenheimer

  Technology, Keys, Creative

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• The Big Sleep' would have been a more effective study of nightmarish existence had the detective been more complicated and had more curiosity been shown about his sweetheart's relation to the crime.

  Manny Farber

  Sleep, Curiosity, Detectives

  Manny Farber (2016). “Farber on Film: The Complete Film Writings of Manny Faber: A Special Publication of The Library of America”, p.564, Library of America

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• The pace of technological change in recent years has been both impressive and positive for consumers.

  Mike Ferguson

  Years, Technological Change, Pace

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• If I was a Greek citizen I'd be out there trying to bring down this monstrosity that has been put upon those people.

  Nigel Farage

  People, Greek, Trying

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• Myths about the dire effects of genetically modified foods on health and the environment abound, but they have not held up to scientific scrutiny. And, although many concerns have been expressed about the potential for unexpected consequences, the unexpected effects that have been observed so far have been benign.

  Nina Fedoroff

  Unexpected, Environment, Benign

  "Engineering Food for All". www.nytimes.com. August 18, 2011.

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• I've been impressed, over the last 15 years, with how often the somewhat conspiratorial comments of Haitian villagers have been proven to be correct when the historical record is probed carefully.

  Paul Farmer

  Years, Historical, Records

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• The awards world can be ridiculous, but I'm not one to bash it. I love awards! When I've been nominated for Emmys and when I won my DGA Award, I couldn't have been happier. I always liked getting a gold star in class.

  Paul Feig

  Stars, Awards, Class

  "Q&A: Paul Feig". Interview with Stacey Wilson Hunt, www.hollywoodreporter.com. November 20, 2011.

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• I imagine people might look at me and think 'Oh, she has been single-mindedly working on her career all these years and those family issues have fallen by the wayside', but that is absolutely not the case.

  Savannah Guthrie

  Thinking, Years, Careers

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• Republican politics have been off-kilter for several years now because a large segment of the conservative base does not look back fondly on the Bush presidency.

  Jonah Goldberg

  Years, Doe, Looks

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• I fell in love with electronics, which for me was the terra incognita, because I had never heard such sounds. If you'd asked me 50 years ago, I would have said the future of music is only electronic, but I would have been wrong. I learnt how to produce everything I needed with live instrumentalists, so I don't need electronics.

  Jonny Greenwood

  Years, Sound, Needs

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• I was being flirted with for 'Modern Family,' which my wife still hasn't let me live down, but it's one of those things where that show is so brilliant because the casting couldn't be any more perfect. It wouldn't have been right for me, and I wouldn't have been right for it.

  Josh Gad

  Perfect, Wife, Modern Family

  "'New Girl': Josh Gad on His Unsuccessful Romancing of Jess in the Season 2 Premiere" by Michael O'Connell, www.hollywoodreporter.com. September 25, 2012.

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• Playing video games is something I enjoy in my spare time. I'm a gamer, always have been.

  Kevin Garnett

  Games, Video, Gamer

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• One of the problems that we face through the media attention that these artists receive is that there has been an awful lot of talk about opera and classical music being elite and being for an elitist group.

  Lesley Garrett

  Artist, Media, Groups

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• I've very critical of myself, and film has been an adjustment for me.

  Paul Giamatti

  Film, Critical, Adjustment

  Interview with Scott Tobias, www.avclub.com. August 5, 2009.

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• What interests me, and has always interested me, has been modernism.

  Peter Gay

  Interest, Modernism

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