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• I think I'm a very good reader of poetry, but obviously, like everybody, I have a set of criteria for reading poems, and I'm not shy about presenting them, so if people ask for my critical response to a poem, I tell them what works and why, and what doesn't work and why.

  Diane Wakoski

  Reading, Thinking, People

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• I have been in movies that I thought I wasn't very good in.

  Christopher Walken

  Has Beens

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• To me, the musical is best when it's a musical comedy. So if you have a very, very funny show, and very good, funny songs, that's what the musical does best.

  Eric Idle

  Song, Musical, Doe

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• I don't think I'm a very good businessman. I act too much with my heart.

  Pele

  Heart, Thinking, Too Much

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• I love being on stage. I'm completely, totally relaxed. It's the only time in my life when I know where I am and what's coming next. The other Robert Powell is probably fairly melancholic. Let's just say happiness isn't my default position. There are dark parts. I'm very good at it. I frighten people sometimes.

  Robert Powell

  Dark, Love Is, People

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• I'm not very good at doing two things at the same time. I've never been good at the walk and bubblegum thing. I've been doing this 16 hours a day. I haven't had a day off. But it's very exciting, too, just to meet all these people doing really fertile stuff. It's sort of where I come from anyway, hanging out with people who believe in something incredible.

  Bjork

  Believe, People, Incredibles

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• I think either Robert Blake wither pulled the trigger or hired someone to do it, but it will be a tough case to prove. I think there's a very good chance he may take the stand, and that's what I'm waiting for.

  Catherine Crier

  Thinking, Waiting, May

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• In Serbia a lot of people hate me because they want to westernize, not understanding that the western world is bipolar, with very good things and very bad things.

  Emir Kusturica

  Hate, People, Understanding

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• It's a very good thing for students also to be exposed to people who aren't film students or film scholars but who work in the world of film.

  Robert Mayer

  People, World, Students

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• Their record is a little bit deceiving. I still think they are a very good team.

  Laura Halldorson

  Lying, Team, Thinking

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• I've had a very good career and I'm grateful that the public has had some level of acceptance and appreciation of my work.

  Ben Stiller

  Appreciation, Grateful, Acceptance

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• Please do not ask me to talk about my divorce. Mr. Ziegfeld and I are such very good friends. It is only a little matter quite between ourselves.

  Anna Held

  Divorce, Good Friend, Littles

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• Well my taste wasn't very good when I first started out. But later, when I began to appreciate the art of acting, I would say the actress I most admire is Vanessa Redgrave.

  Ellen Burstyn

  Art, Appreciate, Acting

  "Ellen Burstyn - part two". Guardian interview, www.theguardian.com. November 4, 2000.

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• Independent dance - and, fine, it's a very good thing that it remains independent - is a much tougher life: all dancers expect that, and accept that there will be periods of not being able to work, provided there are choice moments during the year when they really can work.

  Siobhan Davies

  Independent, Years, Choices

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• By the time I got to the Paris Conservatoire I was very good at the scales and arpeggios.

  James Galway

  Paris, Scales

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• The next best thing to a very good joke is a very bad one.

  Julius Charles Hare

  Next, Best Things, Jokes

  Julius Charles Hare, Augustus William Hare, Edward Hayes Plumptre (1871). “Guesses at Truth”, p.162

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• Every good army needs a couple of criminals.

  Dean Lombardi

  Couple, Army, Criminals

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• I worked for some very good people who have helped me along the way and actually enabled me to have the opportunity to be selected to join the Astronaut Corps.

  Duane G. Carey

  Opportunity, People, Way

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• Everything I know about pop culture I know from 'The Simpsons,' and they say the Grammys aren't very good.

  Jonny Greenwood

  Culture, Pops, Knows

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• If I’d only known which [photographs] would be very good and liked, I wouldn’t have had to do all the thousands of others.

  Saul Leiter

  Would Be, Photograph, Ifs

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• While we lament the apparent injustice of pain and suffering, how often do we forget that every good thing in a fallen world is wholly a gift of God's mercy and grace.

  Matt Chandler

  Pain, Grace, Suffering

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• If we think about emotion this way - as outside-in, not inside out - it is possible to understand how some people can have an enormous amount of influence over others. Some of us, after all, are very good at expressiing emotions and feelings, which means that we are far more emotionally contagious than the rest of us.

  Malcolm Gladwell

  Mean, Thinking, People

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• A Lucky Child is an extraordinary story, simply and beautifully told. Heartbreaking and thrilling, it examines what it means to be human, in every good and awful sense. Perhaps most amazingly of all, Thomas Buergenthal remembers and renders the small mysteries and grand passions of childhood, even a childhood lived under the most horrific circumstances.

  Elizabeth McCracken

  Children, Mean, Passion

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• Well, the thing is, I actually have a fear of horses, so I wouldnt make a very good cowboy.

  Johnny Christ

  Horse, Cowboy, Wells

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• Laissez Faire was very good sauce for the goose, labor, but was very poor sauce for the gander, capital.

  Benjamin Tucker

  Sauce, Laissez Faire, Poor

  Benjamin Ricketson Tucker (1972). “Instead of a Book”

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