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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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• Hopefully I get to come back [to Israel] next year. It's really great to see the encouragement [from] my friends, especially within the Hollywood circle, for me to be an ambassador [for Israel]. Because I'm in love with Israel, and I know everyone else will if they just take the opportunity.

  Kellan Lutz

  Encouragement, Opportunity, Years

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• There is no planning. On the night it is really great, it's euphoria and if it is not so great there is always tomorrow night. That was his attitude.

  Ed McMahon

  Attitude, Night, Planning

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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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• 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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• Josh Brolin is an actor that I really, really like; he's fantastic. I worked with him once; he's a really great actor.

  Rob Zombie

  Actors, Fantastic, Josh

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• I won't sit here and say I've never had a pimple, but I try to have a really great diet, you know, lots of vegetables and fish. And I think stress plays a huge part too.

  Janelle Monae

  Stress, Thinking, Vegetables

  "Janelle Monáe on Her Diet, Hair and Beauty Swagger". www.glamour.com. February 11, 2013.

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• Really great blogs do not take the place of great microprocessors. Great blogs do not replace great software. Lots and lots of blogs does not replace lots and lots of sales.

  Larry Ellison

  Doe, Software, Microprocessor

  "Special Report: Can That Guy in Ironman 2 Whip IBM in Real Life?". www.reuters.com. May 13, 2010.

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• A lot of times it's an asset to not know everything about everything... A lot of really great, innovative things have happened when people just didn't know it wasn't supposed to be possible.

  Drew Houston

  Inspirational, People, Assets

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• Any work that is really great hovers between terrific and terrible.

  Laurie Simmons

  Terrible, Terrific

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• A great poet, a really great poet, is the most unpoetical of all creatures. But inferior poets are absolutely fascinating.

  Oscar Wilde

  Poet, Creatures, Inferiors

  Oscar Wilde, Moira Muldoon (2005). “The Picture of Dorian Gray and Other Writings”, p.62, Simon and Schuster

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• My priorities are where they should be, which is making really great, really exciting television.

  Steven Moffat

  Priorities, Television, Should

  "The new Doctor Who: Steven Moffat and Matt Smith". Interview with Keith Phipps, www.avclub.com. April 16, 2010.

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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.

  Steve Leveen

  Reading, Book, Romantic Love

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

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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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• I am still bowled over by this great young adult novel by David Levithan called 'Every Day,' which is about a character with no gender or body who wakes up every day in the body of a different person. It's a really impressive execution of a really great premise.

  John Green

  Character, Execution, Adults

  "John Green Interview: ‘Fault In Our Stars’ Author Talks Worst Book Ever, Where He Likes To Read". Huffington Post Interview, www.huffingtonpost.com. October 12, 2012.

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• Essential characteristic of the really great novelist: a Christ-like, all-embracing compassion.

  Arnold Bennett

  Art, Book, Reading

  1896 Journal entry,15 Oct.

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• The saving grace of all really great gifts is that the persons who bear their burden remain superior to what they have done, at least as long as the source of creativity is alive.

  Hannah Arendt

  Creativity, Long, Grace

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• For me, having a child is a really great responsibility because you've got something there that is depending on you for information and love until a certain age when it goes to school.

  Kate Bush

  Children, School, Responsibility

  Interview with Brendan Martin, www.brendan.co.uk. April 7, 1978.

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• The few really great-the major novelists ... are significant in terms of the human awareness they promote; awareness of the possibilities of life.

  F. R. Leavis

  Novelists, Fiction, Tradition

  'The Great Tradition' (1948) ch. 1

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• At some point, I had to make a decision: I could practice more and become a really great guitar player or I could work on writing better songs. There are only so many hours in the day, and I found writing songs more fulfilling than working on becoming this virtuoso guitar player.

  James Iha

  Song, Writing, Player

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• I think my best work has been in France with great men. It's been my great fortune to work with really great men - with Olivier Assayas, Raoul Ruiz, Jacques Rivette. I am tutored by them.

  Emmanuelle Beart

  Men, Thinking, France

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

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