Really Great Quotes - Page 7

• Really great design is hard. Good is the enemy of great.

  Jonathan Ive

  Design, Enemy, Hard

  "Jonathan Ive: Apple's goal isn't to make money" by Olivia Solon, www.wired.co.uk. July 30, 2012.

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• I remember my first commercial. This is really great 'Degrassi' trivia: The character Toby on 'Degrassi,' played by Jake Goldsbie, he and I were in both of our first commercial ever when we were four. It was for Tiger Toys, this old Game Boy-type thing. Both of our lines were, 'Mommy, I can do it!

  Charlotte Arnold

  Character, Boys, Games

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• Rarely have I seen any really great advertising created without a certain amount of confusion, throw-aways, bent noses, irritation and downright cursedness.

  Leo Burnett

  Irritation, Confusion, Noses

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• Book love is something like romantic love. When we are reading a really great book, burdens feel lighter, cares seem smaller, and commonplaces are suddenly delightful. You become your best optimistic self. Like romantic love, book love fills you with a certain warmth and completeness. The world holds promise.

  Steve Leveen

  Book, Reading, Optimistic

  Steve Leveen (2005). “The Little Guide to Your Well-read Life”

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• I had a good theater career for years. I played Hamlet when I was 22, and I've played some really great roles.

  Jason Gann

  Years, Careers, Roles

  "Jason Gann Exclusive Interview WILFRED". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. July 6, 2011.

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• I don't get that many scripts. Back in Australia, I've pretty much done my own shows and really no work outside of that. It's only now that I'm starting to read some Hollywood film scripts, and I've read some really great ones.

  Jason Gann

  Hollywood Films, Australia, Work Out

  "Elijah Wood and Jason Gann Talk WILFRED Season 1 Finale Cliffhanger and Ideas for Season 2". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. September 7, 2011.

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• My favorite novels allow me to imagine the characters afterward and what happened, and that I've witnessed a really great story, where the world goes on.

  J.H. Wyman

  Character, Stories, Goes On

  "Executive Producers Jeff Pinkner and J.H. Wyman Interview FRINGE Season 4". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. September 23, 2011.

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• I'm not really a director for hire. You read these scripts and go, 'This is a really great script, but Paul Greengrass would make this so much better than me.' I usually say, 'I know who would be good for this. It's not me.

  Stephen Daldry

  Directors, Would Be, Scripts

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• Sometimes people can write really great scenes and even a great episode, but they can't see the bigger picture.

  M. Night Shyamalan

  Writing, People, Sometimes

  Source: collider.com

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• Sometimes I dream of a work of really great breadth, ranging through the whole region of object, meaning, and style. This, I fear, will remain a dream, but it is a good thing to bear the possibility occasionally in mind.

  Paul Klee

  Dream, Style, Mind

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• Doing little things with a strong desire to please God makes them really great.

  Saint Francis de Sales

  Inspirational, Success, Uplifting

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• The really great visual experience today is to fly over a huge city and look down into the night. It's like a tremendous jubilant Christmas tree. You just feel life is worth living when you come down you may have some doubts.

  Gyorgy Kepes

  Night, Cities, Tree

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• I kind of cheer the presence of any gay characters at all - I think the more we can saturate television with any gay character or lesbian character or transgender character, I think that's a really great thing. We're kind of getting past the fact that they're the punchline or that they're the novelty.

  Jesse Tyler Ferguson

  Cheer, Character, Gay

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• I don't know what you're going through life doing if you're not really trying to collect some really great memories.

  Channing Tatum

  Memories, Trying, Knows

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• Chicago is the Great American City, and it was really great to live there during a time of economic expansion and opportunity and growth. I felt like I was living at the center of the world. Unlike New York, no one expects you to be a professional writer.

  John Green

  New York, Opportunity, Cities

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• A win gives one a feeling of self-affirmation, and success - a feeling of self-expression, but only a sensible harmonization between these urges can bring really great achievements in chess.

  Oleg Romanishin

  Success, Winning, Self

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• No one who has ever done anything really great or successful has ever done it simply because he was attracted by what we call a 'reward' or by the fear of what we call a 'punishment.'

  Maria Montessori

  Successful, Punishment, Done

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• My feeling about work is it's much more about the experience of doing it than the end product. Sometimes things that are really great and make lots of money are miserable to make, and vice versa.

  Alan Cumming

  Feelings, Vices, Sometimes

  "Alan Cumming: King of off-message". Interview with Hadley Freeman, www.theguardian.com. January 24, 2011.

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• I love 3-D, and for certain movies it can be really great, and for certain movies it can be poison.

  Jon M. Chu

  Poison, Certain

  "Interview: Director Jon M. Chu On 'Extraordinary Dancers', 'G.I. Joe 2', and 'Masters Of The Universe'". Interview with Alex Zalben, www.mtv.com. October 26, 2012.

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• I'm not looking for a challenge, necessarily. I'm looking to make a really great film.

  Mads Mikkelsen

  Challenges, Film, Great Film

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• Yeah, it’s really great. I mean, the clonesbians—you know, I have to say, I feel sometimes that fiction can reflect reality and sometimes even affect it. And I’m really proud to play a gay character whose main problem is not that she’s gay, which it shouldn’t be for anyone. So, I’m really proud of that.

  Evelyne Brochu

  Mean, Character, Gay

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• I love watching old movies, and some of the holiday-themed ones are really great. I also have a bizarre thing that I'll do: I'll turn on a foreign-language TV station, usually Spanish, and watch a whole show, riveted, even though I have no idea what anyone is saying. I don't know why I find that so addictive, but I do!

  John Travolta

  Holiday, Ideas, Tvs

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• When I look back on my career, I go, 'This is really great, I've played so many different women.'

  Lana Parrilla

  Careers, Different, Looks

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• I have a really, really great girl in my life right now.

  Chad Michael Murray

  Girl, Right Now

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• You live for those really great scenes where you almost feel that the film has gone beyond what was printed on the script pages and been raised to another level.

  Tobey Maguire

  Gone, Levels, Pages

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