Very Good Quotes - Page 28

• An actor who is good at comedy can also be very good at drama, but not necessarily vice versa.

  Desi Arnaz

  Drama, Vices, Actors

  Desi Arnaz (1994). “A Book”

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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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• The only reason I would have liked to have gone to university is because I like cricket. Not a very good reason to want to go, but as good as any, I suppose.

  Jeffrey Bernard

  Gone, Want, Reason

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• I finally did work out a very good relationship with my father, but it was rough growing up. We had a lot of conflict, and I think it surfaced in many of my works.

  Ira Levin

  Growing Up, Father, Thinking

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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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• I think when I came into marriage -- especially when you've had divorced parents like myself... You'd want to try even harder to make it work and you don't want to fall back into a pattern that you've seen happen in your own family. I desperately want it to work; I desperately love my husband and I wanted to share everything together. And I thought that we were a very good team.

  Princess Diana

  Husband, Team, Fall

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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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• It feels very good to sing in Russian. It feels so good inside my body.

  Regina Spektor

  Body, Feels

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Norway is a small country, about half the size of Sweden, but it has a very good film climate because they have municipal cinemas, so even in the smallest towns you have a cinema that shows art house films from all over the world.

  Stellan Skarsgard

  Country, Art, House

  "'King of Devil's Island': Stellan Skarsgård mentors" by G. Allen Johnson, www.sfgate.com. January 05, 2012.

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• I wouldn't have the life I have without television. I wouldn't be looking out my apartment window onto the East River; I wouldn't be able to afford to have my mother with me this summer. So television has been very good to me.

  Susan Sullivan

  Summer, Mother, Rivers

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

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• Dizzee's just my childhood hero. He's definitely the inspiration. He's got himself to a very good place. He's defied the expectations of what British black urban music was like. He was the first person who made the rest of Britain realise it wasn't just a one-album-type situation. You've got to take your hat off to somebody like that.

  Tinie Tempah

  Inspiration, Hero, Urban Music

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• I went to college with James Coburn and Steve McQueen was a very good friend.

  Robert Vaughn

  Good Friend, College, Mcqueen

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• When evangelical leaders can persuade the president to be concerned about what's happening in Sudan, or sex trafficking around the world, or HIV-AIDS, that's a very good thing. I am completely supportive of that.

  Jim Wallis

  Sex, Leader, President

  "Frontline", www.pbs.org. April 29, 2004.

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• If you can maintain the diet over a period of time, that's very good.
  If you're taking statins and you're not following a diet, you could partially undo the effects of statins.

  Antonio Gotto

  Periods, Following, Ifs

  Source: www.nytimes.com

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• It confuses me that Christian living is not simpler. The gospel, the very good news, is simple.

  Donald Miller

  Christian, Simple, News

  Donald Miller (2005). “Through Painted Deserts: Light, God, and Beauty on the Open Road”, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• I used to work at NASA in Virginia. It was nothing glamorous; I was just tasked with making code compile for obscure projects, and I wasn't very good at it. Now I spend most of my time drawing pictures and looking at funny things on the Internet, which in retrospect is largely what I did at my old job, too.

  Randall Munroe

  Jobs, Old Job, Virginia

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• The great thing about it is, in Hollywood, certain people are very good at keeping their lives and who they are very private. I've never met anybody as down to earth and cool in Hollywood than Matt Damon.

  Anthony Mackie

  People, Earth, Hollywood

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Sydney is a very good market for us - we have a very strong following here.

  Graeme Murphy

  Strong, Following, Sydney

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• Sometimes fake laughing is hard once you’ve done a scene 18 times. I don’t want to brag, but I have a reputation for being very, very good at that. It’s funny finding what’s challenging about acting as you go.

  Allison Williams

  Laughing, Fake, Challenges

  "‘Girls’ Star Allison Williams On Her Masturbation Scene, Lena Dunham And More". Interview with Christopher Rosen, www.huffingtonpost.com. April 29, 2012.

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• All my family has very good mathematical abilities - like, so dorky. I was the dork then in school - on any maths exams I'd get 100%. I just knew how to do maths and most people would hate it, but for some reason it just came.

  Rebel Wilson

  Hate, School, Math

  "‘Bachelorette’ Funny Lady Rebel Wilson: 'I pick up the roles other actresses don’t want'". Interview with Nigel M. Smith, www.indiewire.com. August 15, 2012.

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• I'm not very good at relaxing. Reading's the main thing. On the bus, on the tube, on the loo. Literally all the time. I mean, I don't think there's a moment of the day when I wouldn't be if I was left alone.

  Samuel West

  Reading, Mean, Thinking

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• I have very mixed feelings about Jesse Jackson. He's very good about labor, and human and civil rights issues, but not so good on cultural issues.

  Jello Biafra

  Rights, Issues, Feelings

  Interview with John Krewson, www.avclub.com. April 9, 1997.

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