Terrific Quotes - Page 14

• You can be as beautiful and charming as you'd like, but if you're not terrific at acting, it will mean nothing on the screen.

  Steven Moffat

  Beautiful, Mean, Acting

  Source: collider.com

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• Tides is a rich, taut, suspenseful, and funny exploration of two worlds, selkie and human. It's full of mystery but it's also so fully imagined that a reader can jump right in. Betsy Cornwell is a terrific new talent with a boundless imagination.

  Valerie Sayers

  Two Worlds, Imagination, Tides

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• Whoever has had the experience of the moral sentiment cannot choose but believe in unlimited power. Each pulse from that heart isan oath from the Most High. I know not what the word sublime means, if it be not the intimations, in this infant, of a terrific force.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  God, Believe, Heart

  Ralph Waldo Emerson, Ronald A. Bosco, Joel Myerson (2015). “Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.416, Harvard University Press

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• Julie Orringer is the real thing, a breathtaking chronicler of the secrets and cruelties underneath the surface of middle-class American life. These are terrific stories-wise, compassionate and haunting.

  Dan Chaon

  Wise, Real, Class

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• I'm one of those fortunate actors who gets to work pretty much every day. I've had a run of good fortune and work with some terrific people who have hired me.

  Rob Paulsen

  Running, People, Actors

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

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• I think music is just a wonderful ingredient that helps us understand a scene better. And certainly you can overuse music, and you can use the wrong music. I probably have been guilty of these things over time. But if you use music correctly as a friend of the theme, a friend of the narrative, ou can lend some terrific connective tissue to a film.

  Jonathan Demme

  Thinking, Use, Tissues

  "Filmmaker Interview". POV Interview, www.pbs.org. September 20, 2012.

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• I believe that everybody, whether you believe in the afterlife or the chance of a near-death experience and you come back and you see someone [on the other side] - whether that has happened or not, I don't know, but certainly everyone has thought about it at some point or another in time. It's a fantasy that if there is anything out there like that, it would be just terrific, but that remains to be seen.

  Clint Eastwood

  Believe, Afterlife, Sides

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• Music is probably the only place I get energy from. Music and maybe watching a really tremendous performer, watching a terrific performer like Jagger or watching a great movie.

  Bette Midler

  Energy, Music Is, Performers

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• The people who worked in comics were terrific guys. I had a good association with them, and I enjoyed comics for that very reason.

  Jack Kirby

  People, Guy, Association

  Interview with Gary Groth, www.tcj.com. February 1990.

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• I never met my theater fans. I'm out the stage door five minutes after the curtain goes up. So that's it. I don't even know who comes, but thank God they do come. I can't tell. I keep my head down. I don't meet them. The fans from "Harry Potter" are kids who stop me in the street. I love that. That's terrific. I was amazed how many do.

  Michael Gambon

  Kids, Doors, Thank God

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• I love individuals. I think people are terrific as I meet and get to know them. I like imagination. I like the freedom that this society manages to parcel out to us in the midst of the rest of what they do to you. I also like thinking about the fact that the atoms in me are the same atoms that are in all the rest of the universe, and that every one of those atoms came from the middle of a star. In other words, it's only me out there.

  George Carlin

  Stars, Thinking, People

  Source: www.motherjones.com

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• I make something I can look at and say, "That's a good piece of work, and there's some terrific directing and acting in it, and you should be proud of it."

  Wes Craven

  Acting, Looks, Pieces

  Interview with Scott Tobias, www.avclub.com. March 11, 2009.

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• I think Julianne Moore is very, very good. I've worked with her. We did Surviving Picasso. I remember one scene we did together. She had to have a nervous, a mental, breakdown in this one scene. I didn't have many lines. I just had to make sure I knew I came in on cue all right. And I was just watching her walking though the rehearsal. I thought I know what she's doing, "This is going to be terrific." So they said, "Are you ready" and she said, "Yeah," "Ok, roll the camera." And all in one take.

  Anthony Hopkins

  Thinking, Together, Cameras

  Interview with Helen Keier, www.ign.com. February 10, 2001.

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• I'm going to live long enough to live in an America that will assume universal health care is a basic right. That will be amusing and terrific.

  Anna Quindlen

  America, Long, Care

  Source: www.goodreads.com

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• I'm a writer-director-actor, which I've always kind of enjoyed. I compared it to the Olympic biathlon. "Not only can he cross-country ski, but he's a terrific marksman as well." I want people to say, "You mean that writer performed a tracheotomy?" That's right, I do everything.

  Harold Ramis

  Country, Mean, People

  Interview with Eric Spitznagel, believermag.com. March 1, 2006.

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• Wright is a visionary with a great strategic mind, and he's a strong business leader with outstanding people skills, ... He's a terrific guy and will be a key force in guiding the company's future growth.

  Jack Welch

  Inspirational, Strong, Skills

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• The bigger issue is that we're communicating directly with voters [during the president campaign]. For those members of congress that endorse us, terrific, for those that don't, we're still winning voters in their state.

  Kellyanne Conway

  Winning, Issues, President

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• One movie I think is just terrific is 'Bernie,' with Jack Black and Shirley MacLaine. That was a great surprise to me - so witty, so entertaining, a true story, and I'm not a great Jack Black fan, but he's great in it. I think it's a gem.

  Robert Osborne

  Witty, Thinking, Black

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• I think President Obama's been terrific.

  Donald Trump

  Thinking, President, President Obama

  "Exclusive: Donald Trump on Cabinet picks, transition process". "Fox News Sunday", www.foxnews.com. December 11, 2016.

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• The meteor flag of England Shall yet terrific burn, Till danger's troubled night depart, And the star of peace return.

  Thomas Campbell

  Peace, Stars, Night

  Thomas Campbell, Oliver Goldsmith, Thomas Gray (1872). “The Poetical Works of Campbell, Goldsmith and Gray: With Memoirs of the Authors”, p.151

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• You never know how stylish a movie is going to be and I think this movie has a great sense of style. The way that it is shot and our costumes and everything, it was just terrific.

  Julia Roberts

  Thinking, Style, Way

  Source: www.indielondon.co.uk

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• I do think I'm terrific at giving advice. Although in our hearts we usually know what we should do. It's rare that you get in a situation in life where you don't know how to proceed. You know the thing you should do, but don't want to.

  Paul F. Tompkins

  Heart, Thinking, Situations In Life

  Source: www.esquire.com

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• You can see areas where maybe you got a bit lazy, perhaps, or you see when you were really on form. I think an actor is very like a sportsman in that respect. You have periods where you're in terrific form.

  John Hurt

  Thinking, Lazy, Actors

  Interview with Tasha Robinson, film.avclub.com. March 22, 2007.

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• I'm a terrific Mexican cook, and I just love Mexican food. And I love cooking Mexican food. That's pretty much my weakness...and barbecue beef...and Texas beef...and brisket. Any red meat I can get my hands on.

  Eva Longoria

  Texas, Hands, Mexican

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• I think Chris Burden is terrific. I really do.

  Andy Warhol

  Thinking, Burden

  Andy Warhol, Mark Francis, Mattjis Visser, Museum Kunst Palast (Düsseldorf, Germany), Kunstmuseum Liechtenstein (2004). “Andy Warhol: the late work”, Prestel Publishing

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