Big Deal Quotes - Page 12

• The second book, which was probably more from a professional standpoint - when I read Junot Díaz's Drown, I was like, Oh my god, you can write these stories and people will actually read them beyond your own little community. This guy's book is blowing up and it seems like [he's writing about] the neighborhood that I grew up in. That was a big deal. I read that in graduate school, so that's when I was really taking writing seriously, but I didn't know you could do it. I didn't know you can actually be an author. It was a weird epiphany.

  Matt de la Pena

  Book, Writing, School

  Source: therumpus.net

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• The whole guilt thing of not feeling Mexican enough was a big deal, too. On the one hand, you have your grandmother who is anointing you as a chosen one because you are light, but then you feel like you're less because you are lighter than your cousins, who are more down on the streets. You know? So that confusion was all I wrote about.

  Matt de la Pena

  Cousin, Grandmother, Light

  Source: therumpus.net

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• It's just this epidemic unimportance, this pervasive feeling that just about everything is "no big deal," that drives these ordinary people to those fast-food joints, there to try to fill with carbohydrates the spiritual and emotional emptiness gnawing inside them.

  Ron Loewinsohn

  Spiritual, Emotional, Epidemics

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• I'm a big Aqua fan. "Barbie Girl" was a big deal growing up.

  Allison Williams

  Girl, Growing Up, Aqua

  "Allison Williams' Emmys Prep Involves Having a Solo '90s Dance Party". Interview with Ashley Terrill, www.elle.com. September 20, 2013.

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• My bedtime was 8 P.M. But on Cosby nights, I got to stay up until 8:30. Real big deal. This is when they could afford to do a completely different title sequence in TV every year. I always looked forward to that. It was like a mini musical at the top of the show. My favorite was the Top Hat fancy version.

  Christine Lakin

  Real, Night, Years

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• As far as my sport is concerned, my mission is to make it as big as it deserves to be. We've been growing, it's just not as noticeable. The NCAA picked beach volleyball up to be a championship sport, and it was the fastest test sport that's been adopted. That's a really big deal for our sport because that just means the USA system is going to have a feeder system from the college system.

  Kerri Walsh

  Sports, Volleyball, Beach

  "37-year-old Olympian explains how she stays so dominant at an age when most athletes retire". Interview with Emmett Knowlton, www.businessinsider.com. March 1, 2016.

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• They told me I'd have to be there for the entire shooting of the movie which was two and a half months and again, I was surprised. Most movies I'd worked on before took only a day or so, so I realized this was a pretty big deal. I got to the set and was involved in a very integral way, which was a fun experience to be a part of.

  Mike Vallely

  Fun, Two, Way

  Source: theindiespiritualist.com

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• Buddha was a responsible guy and believed in his monks being responsible, their responsibility would no longer be to their practice or to the sangha, but to their child because that's the only honest way to do it. You can't have it both ways. So anytime a monk would have sex, there was always that possibility and it was a very big deal.

  Brad Warner

  Sex, Children, Responsibility

  Source: theindiespiritualist.com

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• The problem now is that young people, young indigenous people, are not so interested in preserving traditional knowledge. So for them, seeing that it was important for us and for the outside world, this traditional knowledge, it was a big deal to them.

  Ciro Guerra

  People, Important, World

  "'Serpent' Film Explores, Revives Lost Cultural Knowledge For Colombians". "Weekend Edition Sunday" with Tom Cole, www.npr.org. February 21, 2016.

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• I just wanna hang out. No big deal!

  Jim Carrey

  Bigs, Deals, Hanging Out

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• Big deal... the only cats that don't have three legs are the ones with two through zero legs.

  Doug Benson

  Zero, Cat, Two

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• I'm always shocked that gay marriage is such a big deal. You have to realize how precious human life is, when there are tsunamis and mudslides, when there are armies and terrorists - at any moment, you could be gone, and potentially in the most brutal fashion.

  Jennifer Beals

  Fashion, Army, Gay

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

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• It doesn't bother me if my boyfriend gets a lap dance when I'm there. I'm secure with myself so whats the big deal?

  Stacy Keibler

  My Boyfriend, Lap, Bigs

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• When we wrapped Resident Evil, we were a 3D movie, but it was no big deal. And then, Avatar came out and the whole of Hollywood was like, "Look at these grosses! 3D is huge. Let's all be 3D!" We just got on with doing what we were doing, which was making what we think is a really quality, kick-ass 3D movie, and we'll really be the first live-action 3D movie of the year.

  Paul W. S. Anderson

  Thinking, Years, Evil

  Source: collider.com

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• Even though she's dealing with a scar, Emily just carries on with life. It's not a big deal. While we were shooting the scene, I tried it different ways. I tried it where I was hiding my face, and Chris [Weitz] was like, "Let's try it where she doesn't care," and that's who she is. She doesn't care what anybody else thinks.

  Tinsel Korey

  Thinking, Trying, Different

  Source: collider.com

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• What's the big deal? I have really strong morals, and just because I look sexy on the cover of Rolling Stone doesn't mean I'm a naughty girl. I'd do it again. I thought the pictures were fine. And I was tired of being compared to Debbie Gibson and all of this bubblegum pop all the time.

  Britney Spears

  Girl, Sexy, Strong

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• If I hadn't spent a big chunk of time in academia I might not have the depth of consciousness I do about ideas like that. I might think, for instance, that Freud was no big deal in terms of the shape of social organization then or now. I might think that the discourses of politics and law are real and stable and fair.

  Lidia Yuknavitch

  Real, Thinking, Law

  Source: therumpus.net

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• I don't think the Federal Reserve has any role in how high rates are right now. I don't understand why everyone is paying attention to this tapering. The Fed is using one kind of bond to buy another kind of bond. What's the big deal, and why is anyone taking the Fed seriously?

  Eugene Fama

  Thinking, Attention, Investing

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• It was kind of scary because working with Woody Allen becomes sort of a big deal in your mind. He directs in that Woody Allen character some of the time - he has these idiosyncrasies that are really charming and funny.

  Radha Mitchell

  Character, Scary, Mind

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• Like it or not the American people support the term 'background check,' they support the concept of it even though they know it won't work to keep guns out of the hands of criminals they figure 'well if criminals aren't supposed to have guns what's the big deal about a background check,'

  Alan Gottlieb

  Gun, Hands, People

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• I see the Internet as the next big deal - I wanted to get in on it early on so I wouldn't get behind it all.

  Bruce Campbell

  Next, Internet, Bigs

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• That was a piece I did in 1963 with Konrad Lueg in a department store, in the furniture department. It was announced in some papers as an exhibition opening, but the people who came didn't know that it was to be a sort of Happening. I don't think it is quite right that it has become so famous anyhow. It was just a lot of fun, and the word itself, Capitalist Realism, hit just right. But it wasn't such a big deal.

  Gerhard Richter

  Art, Fun, Thinking

  Gerhard Richter, Dietmar Elger, Hans-Ulrich Obrist (2009). “Gerhard Richter: writings 1961-2007”, Distributed Art Pub Inc

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• It's so funny how my name has always been such a big deal. When I was growing up, my family was always moving. I had to meet new people all the time. And they'd laugh.

  Calista Flockhart

  Funny, Growing Up, Moving

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• Back in my day, we called it rock 'n' roll, but then we always reminded listeners that it was no big deal if they didn't like it.

  Robert Plant

  Rocks, Rock N Roll, Bigs

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• It's not really that much of a big deal - you brush it off and you come back. Defeat is the secret ingredient to success.

  Conor McGregor

  Mma, Secret, Ingredients

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