Really Great Quotes - Page 12

• Music is a really great creative tool for me, for different roles.

  Matthew McConaughey

  Creative, Tools, Different

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• Finding a calm place inside myself through meditation kind of helped me to get over a lot of mental illness ... it's just been a really great thing in my life.

  Roseanne Barr

  Meditation, Calm, Kind

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• You are different from the really great man in only one thing: The great man, at one time, also was a very little man, but he developed one important ability: he learned to see where he was small in his thinking, and actions. Under the pressure of some task which was dear to him he learned better and better to sense the threat that comes from his smallness and pettiness. The great man, then, knows when and in what he is a little man.

  Wilhelm Reich

  Men, Thinking, Important

  "Listen, Little Man!". Book by Wilhelm Reich, 1948.

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• I've often thought that my scruples about stealing books were the only thing that stood in the way of my being a really great scholar.

  Malcolm Bradbury

  Book, Way, Stealing

  Malcolm Bradbury (1978). “Eating people is wrong”, Vintage

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• My metaphor for acting in movies - not on stage because it's completely different on stage - is to put colors on an easel for the director to paint his own painting with in the editing room, long after I've left. You buy me for red and black, so I better give you really great red and black, but if I can give you purple, pink, green and brown too, I will.

  Scott Glenn

  Color, Purple, Editing

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• I was doing all the coaching schools so that I'd be able to stay in the game, and I gave myself a chance by doing that. I was only an average player, could score a goal or two, that sort of thing, but I wasn't a Bobby Charlton or a Messi, or Ronaldo. There are very, very few really great players who have become great coaches.

  Alex Ferguson

  School, Player, Average

  "Fergie reveals all: Why I turned down Abramovich, Moyes IS the right man for United... and you'll be throwing your money down the drain betting on me coming back (I'll be at the Kentucky Derby!)". Interview with Charlie Rose, www.dailymail.co.uk. October 2, 2013.

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• Obviously no parent does everything right. It's this weird thing that happens where you are striving to be as good as you can be so that they turn out well. And that requires that you be a really great, evolved, aware person in every moment. Which is pretty awesome. But it's also putting tremendous pressure on yourself--which is why women feel so guilty!

  Jennifer Lopez

  Parent, Pressure, Doe

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• In a really great way, you simultaneously try to take up as little and as much space as possible.

  St. Vincent

  Space, Trying, Littles

  "Annie Clark of St. Vincent, Polyphonic Spree: Q&A". QRO Interview, www.qromag.com.

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• My father was a really great man. I'll never forget the last thing he ever said to me. Nor will I ever repeat it.

  John S. Hall

  Father, Men, Lasts

  "Song: 'My Father' ('The Psychopathology of Everyday Life')". 2003.

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• Collaboration is being open to each other's ideas and benefiting from each other's perspectives in an open way. Collaboration is all about rewriting and rewriting and rewriting and helping each other to constantly improve a piece. And, it's also about spurring each other on to doing really great, hard work - it's easier to do it in a collaboration than on your own.

  Alan Menken

  Hard Work, Ideas, Perspective

  "BWW EXCLUSIVE: Alan Menken Talks TANGLED, SISTER ACT, LEAP OF FAITH, HUNCHBACK, ALADDIN & More". Interview with Pat Cerasaro, www.broadwayworld.com. November 15, 2010.

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• I was at a dinner party with a group of people, and we were talking about fake names. You know, how its difficult to come up with a really great fake name. Its a very specific type of gift. You don't want to go too far into the silly, and you don't want to go too far into the banal. I always thought one of the funniest names ever was Gern Blanston, which came from a Steve Martin routine on one of his early records.

  Paul Rudd

  Funny, Silly, Party

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• For once in my career, I won't have to hold anybody's hand and they won't have to hold mine. I'm surrounded by veterans. We had a great battle last Thursday at HealthPoint. It was something I never had before - three, four, really great players all in one pickup game.

  Shaquille O'Neal

  Basketball, Player, Games

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• It's always a really great thing to have an actor that does make you want to up your game. It naturally motivates you to do and try things that maybe you wouldn't necessarily do or try.

  Johnny Galecki

  Games, Trying, Doe

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• When I say I had a cosmic confidence that we were capable of writing good music, I'm speaking about that time when we met Sam [Fogarino]. Greg [ex-drummer] is actually a really great drummer and a great guy. I never want to sound like I am belittling his contributions in the early days, but when Sam joined, there was an immediacy of, like, "Here we go."

  Paul Banks

  Writing, Guy, Sound

  "Cap the Old Times: The Story of Interpol's Turn on the Bright Lights". pitchfork.com. November 29, 2012.

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• The great thing about Twitter is, you get a lot back, and I read through a lot, and I want my fans to know that I do read a lot, and it's why I do respond or retweet clever posts, and I'm constantly amazed by the cleverness of people on Twitter. I just think it's a really great tool to communicate with fans and influence conversations and raise awareness about things I'm interested in, that I think deserve some attention.

  Elizabeth Banks

  Clever, Thinking, People

  Interview with Scott Tobias, www.avclub.com. November 18, 2010.

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• “Lovelace” was really great. I got to work with the wonderful Amanda Seyfried, Hank Azaria and Peter Sarsgaard, so it can’t get no better than that, right?

  Cory Hardrict

  Wonderful, Peter, Amanda

  "Cory Hardrict Talks Tia Mowry, ‘Lovelace’ And Jennifer Lawrence’s Boyfriend For HuffPost’s #nofilter". Interview with Leigh Blickley, www.huffingtonpost.com. December 18, 2012.

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• I am a fan of Hrithik and I feel he will
  be a star for 30-40 years. He is really great.

  Anil Kapoor

  Stars, Years, Fans

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• The world sees only the reflection of merit; therefore when you come to know a really great man intimately, you may as often find him above as below his reputation.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Reflection, Men, World

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, John Stuart Blackie (1883). “The Wisdom of Goethe”, Edinburgh, W. Blackwood

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• That nation is proudest and noblest and most exalted which has the greatest number of really great men.

  Sinclair Lewis

  Men, Numbers, Nations

  Sinclair Lewis (2002). “Arrowsmith: Elmer Gantry ; Dodsworth”

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• The really great people are the ones who know how to make the little people feel great.

  Ashleigh Brilliant

  Greatness, People, Littles

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• All really great pictures exhibit the general habits of nature, manifested in some peculiar, rare, and beautiful way.

  John Ruskin

  Beautiful, Peculiar, Way

  John Ruskin, Louisa Caroline Tuthill (1860). “The True and the Beautiful in Nature, Art, Morals and Religion: Selected from the Works of John Ruskin...”, p.254

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• I feel like I've had a really great intense relationship with every single Director I've ever worked with. I can't say there's one that hasn't been deep and profound in its own way.

  Hilary Swank

  Profound, Directors, Way

  Source: www.hollywoodreporter.com

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• For an inheritance to be really great, the hand of the defunct must not be seen.

  Rene Char

  Hands, Inheritance

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• Evasions are the common shelter of the hard-hearted, the false, and impotent, when called upon to assist; the real great alone plan instantaneous help, even when their looks or words presage difficulties.

  Johann Kaspar Lavater

  Looks, Shelter, Helping

  "Aphorisms on man. Translated from the original manuscript of the Rev. John Caspar Lavater, citizen of Zuric. ; [One line from Juvenal]" by Johann Kaspar Lavater, 1790.

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• I went to a boarding school when I was 13, and it was a very arty school, so there was an opportunity for a lot more. I joined a band and so on. We would do concerts at school, and I would play cover tunes and thought, 'This is really great.'

  Teddy Thompson

  School, Opportunity, Play

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