People Quotes - Page 23

• A lot of people like to be supertiny, but I don't want a child's body - I want a woman's body that is extremely fit. It's so much sexier.

  Ashley Greene

  Children, Body, Want

  "Get a body like 'Twilight’s' Ashley Greene". Women's Health Interview, www.foxnews.com. November 16, 2012.

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• Science is very good at answering the 'how' questions. 'How did the universe evolve to the form that we see?' But it is woefully inadequate in addressing the 'why' questions. 'Why is there a universe at all?' These are the meaning questions, which many people think religion is particularly good at dealing with.

  Brian Greene

  Thinking, Form, Very Good

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• The main challenge that television presents is that I have a tendency to say things with a great deal of precision and accuracy. Often a description of that sort, which will work in a book because people can read it slowly - they can turn the pages back and so on - doesn't really work on TV because it interrupts the flow of the moving image.

  Brian Greene

  Moving, Book, Challenges

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• There are good people who are dealt a bad hand by fate, and bad people who live long, comfortable, privileged lives. A small twist of fate can save or end a life; random chance is a permanent, powerful player in each of our lives, and in human history as well.

  Jeff Greenfield

  Powerful, Fate, Player

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• With our website we didn't want people to come to our site and find out about Radiohead. We wanted them to come to our site and find out about what Radiohead are finding out about.

  Colin Greenwood

  Want, Radiohead, Site

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

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• Once I realised the value of making people laugh, I got very good at it. Fast.

  Dick Gregory

  Laughing, Very Good, Realised

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• The way most people fail is in not keeping up the heart.

  Lady Gregory

  Heart, Way, Failing

  Lady Gregory (2013). “The Essential Lady Gregory Collection”, p.610, eBookIt.com

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• In the whole course of our work at the theatre we have been, I may say, drenched with advice by friendly people who for years gave us the reasons why we did not succeed... All their advice, or at least some of it, might have been good if we had wanted to make money, to make a common place of amusement.

  Lady Gregory

  Years, Advice, Theatre

  Lady Gregory (1970). “The Collected Plays: The tragedies and tragic-comedies”, Colin Smythe

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• Irish history having been forbidden in schools, has been, to a great extent, learned from Raftery's poems by the people of Mayo, where he was born, and of Galway, where he spent his later years.

  Lady Gregory

  School, Years, Born

  Lady Gregory (2012). “Poets and Dreamers Studies and translations from the Irish”, p.2, tredition

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• Each time you do a film you gain a lot of experience and build a visual resume where people get to know who you are.

  Pam Grier

  Gains, Film, Resumes

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• My people were homesteading in Colorado before Emancipation.

  Pam Grier

  Colorado, Homesteading, Emancipation

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• I also don't have a desire to be on the A-list. I feel more people can relate to the D-list than the A-list.

  Kathy Griffin

  Desire, Lists, Feels

  "Kathy Griffin's Life: All D-List, Even This Interview". "Morning Edition" with David Greene and Renee Montagne, www-s4.npr.org. June 30, 2009.

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• I'm not an artist. I tell inappropriate stories and jokes and I try to make people laugh.

  Kathy Griffin

  Artist, Laughing, Trying

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• It's really hard to be on stage and packing your gear when people who just saw you play are in the room, because they all just want to talk to you.

  Grimes

  Play, Gears, Want

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• My manager lives on my block; four of the apartments in my apartment complex of seven are people I know. It's a really close-knit community, and almost everyone on these few blocks are artists or graphic designers, because we live right on the cusp of a warehouse district.

  Grimes

  Block, Artist, Community

  Interview With Durga Chew-bose, www.interviewmagazine.com. May 23, 2011.

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• More than 100 people have been sent to death row who were later exonerated because they weren't guilty or fairly tried. Most criminal defendants do not get adequate representation because there are not enough public defenders to represent them. There is a lot that is wrong.

  John Grisham

  Criminals, Adequate, Guilty

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• I was a lawyer for 10 years - a short time, but it molded me into who I am. My clients were little people fighting big corporations, so it was a natural thing to not only represent the little guy but also to pull for him - it's the American way.

  John Grisham

  Fighting, Who I Am, Years

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• Sometimes people try to read into my strip and find out what my state of mind is. And I can say if I'm in a good mood, generally the comic strip starts out in a good mood, but the punchline is very negative and sour.

  Matt Groening

  Mind, Trying, Negative

  Interview With Nathan Rabin, tv.avclub.com. April 26, 2006.

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• Cartooning is for people who can't quite draw and can't quite write. You combine the two half-talents and come up with a career.

  Matt Groening

  Writing, Careers, Two

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• People go into cartooning because they're shy and they're angry. That's when you're sitting in the back of a classroom drawing the teacher.

  Matt Groening

  Teacher, Drawing, Shy

  "'The Simpsons Movie': Our Animated Interview Matt Groening". Hollywood.com Interview, www.hollywood.com. July 27, 2007.

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• Our solution on 'The Simpsons' is to do jokes that people who have an education, or some frame of reference, can get. And for the ones who don't, it doesn't matter, because we have Homer banging his head and saying, 'D'oh!'

  Matt Groening

  Matter, Banging, Jokes

  "Homer's last stand" by Oliver Burkeman, www.theguardian.com. May 1, 2002.

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• Sometimes people get mad at The Simpsons' subversive story telling, but there's another message in there, which is a celebration of making wild, funny stories.

  Matt Groening

  Funny, Mad, Stories

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• The thing about a cartoon is, you can do whatever you want. The tightrope that we are walking on 'The Simpsons' and 'Futurama' is "How do you continue to surprise the audience, but make them good surprises?" Not every surprise is good, but you want to continue jolting people.

  Matt Groening

  Cartoon, Want, Surprise

  Interview with Kyle Ryan, tv.avclub.com. March 25, 2009.

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• We did 'The Simpsons Movie,' which took almost four years; it was the same people that do the TV show, and it just killed us. So that's why there hasn't been a second movie. But I imagine if the show ever does go off the air, they'll start doing movies.

  Matt Groening

  Air, Years, Tv Shows

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• I went to college at Harvard, then did three years of graduate school at Yale. At both places I studied comparative literature. People find it odd that I went to both Harvard and Yale, and I guess it is odd, but that's just what people did where I grew up.

  Lev Grossman

  School, College, Years

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