Brilliant Quotes - Page 10

• I loved Julia Louis-Dreyfus's show 'The New Adventures of Old Christine.' That made me laugh out loud. She's like Lucille Ball. She's brilliant.

  Helen Hunt

  Adventure, Laughing, Balls

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• But I'm blessed to work with great people. I collaborate with brilliant stylists both here and in Paris. I work with a great design team. I really allow everyone to bring their ideas. I almost rely on them to inspire me.

  Marc Jacobs

  Team, Blessed, Ideas

  "Exclusive Q&A with Marc Jacobs". Interview With Katie Connor, www.marieclaire.com. August 10, 2010.

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• Beatbullying's 'The Big March 2012' is such a brilliant campaign and I am very proud to be a part of it. I have been a victim of cyber bullying myself and I know firsthand just how hurtful it can be. People think that they can hide behind computers and send nasty and hurtful comments to people, and this is wrong.

  Katherine Jenkins

  Bullying, Thinking, People

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

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• I've been lucky that I've performed with a lot of the classical people I've wanted to work with so I'd like to do something that people didn't see coming. Like Madonna, or being Welsh - the Tom Jones thing. Or somebody suggested N-Dubz - that would be brilliant!

  Katherine Jenkins

  People, Would Be, Lucky

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

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• What convinces is conviction. Believe in the argument you're advancing. If you don't you're as good as dead. The other person will sense that something isn't there, and no chain of reasoning, no matter how logical or elegant or brilliant, will win your case for you.

  Lyndon B. Johnson

  Integrity, Believe, Winning

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• One day, my youngest uncle - the other one who was first to go to college, Randy - and I were sitting out on the front porch. And he was brilliant. He ended up - he just retired from Boeing Aircraft in Wichita, Kansas.

  James Earl Jones

  Uncles, College, Kansas

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• Poetry is a political act because it involves telling the truth.

  June Jordan

  Political, Telling The Truth, Poetry Is

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• I love children and I love family and I love that interaction. Because I had a really close relationship with my mother, I understand that deep powerful love, and it's so beautiful. To be a mother to a child is the most brilliant gift; it's gorgeous.

  Alicia Keys

  Beautiful, Mother, Children

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• Peter Sellers was just a brilliant actor, and also comedic.

  Val Kilmer

  Actors, Peter, Comedic

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• Now this is a way to approach our healthcare problems: increase the number of tax collectors and decrease the number of doctors - brilliant!

  Charles Krauthammer

  Doctors, Numbers, Way

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• I started out modeling at a young age and surrounded myself with different brilliant minds. I have so many people to get educated from, and I've been a sponge.

  Kellan Lutz

  People, Mind, Age

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• I resent having witnessed the survival of some very mediocre male actors and the professional demise of the very brilliant female ones.

  Helen Mirren

  Survival, Males, Female

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• Famously, there's not really anywhere to go after nihilism. It's not progressing toward anything, it's a statement of outrage, however brilliant.

  Alan Moore

  Progress, Nihilism, Outrage

  "Alan Moore Takes League of Extraordinary Gentlemen to the ’60s". Interview with Scott Thill, www.wired.com. July 21, 2011.

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• The ability of writers to imagine what is not the self, to familiarize the strange and mystify the familiar, is the test of their power.

  Toni Morrison

  Self, Tests, Strange

  FaceBook post by Toni Morrison from Dec 20, 2010

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• Everything I've ever done, in the writing world, has been to expand articulation, rather than to close it.

  Toni Morrison

  Writing, Done, World

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• It is brilliant going to the theatre and being forced to sit and listen and think about life. It can be almost a near-religious experience.

  Emily Mortimer

  Religious, Thinking, Theatre

  "Emily Mortimer: 'Secrets are a part of all of our lives'". Interview with Patrick Barkham, www.theguardian.com. July 8, 2010.

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• You know, there's still a lot of great songwriters out there who hand in songs. And there's a lot of brilliant singers and performers out there who sing other people's words. I enjoy doing both.

  Jason Mraz

  Song, Hands, People

  "Talk Asia". www.cnn.com. November 16, 2012.

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• My first outdoor cooking memories are full of erratic British summers, Dad swearing at a barbecue that he couldn't put together, and eventually eating charred sausages, feeling brilliant.

  Jamie Oliver

  Summer, Memories, Dad

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

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• M.I.T. has a reputation for turning out Dilberts. They may be brilliant in what they do, but no one can understand what they say.

  Steven Pinker

  May, Reputation, Dilbert

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• My dad's got a brilliant eye for scripts 'cos he's a literary agent. He and my agent read a load of scripts and filter them.

  Daniel Radcliffe

  Dad, Eye, Scripts

  Interview with Dave Calhoun, www.timeout.com.

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• When you snatch little pieces of other people's lives and try to palm them off as your own, that's more disgusting than anything. Robin Williams is a huge thief. Denis Leary is a huge thief. His whole stand-up career is based on Bill Hicks, a brilliant guy who died years ago.

  Joe Rogan

  Years, Careers, People

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

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• Phil Hartman was brilliant, and Dave Foley is a really funny guy. Phil Hartman was actually even funnier offstage than he was onstage because he would say nasty things. Dave Foley's very funny, very witty guy, very quick.

  Joe Rogan

  Witty, Guy, Nasty

  "A Cuppa Hot Joe". Interview with J. C. Shakespeare, www.austinchronicle.com. May 4, 2001.

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• I love a lot of comedy actors and actresses like Kristen Wiig and Tina Fey and all those women who are really brilliant and funny.

  Saoirse Ronan

  Fey, Actors, Actresses

  "'Gemma Arterton is very much a woman and very maternal': Byzantium's Saoirse Ronan on vampire fantasy thriller flick". Interview with John Hiscock, www.mirror.co.uk. May 31, 2013.

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• I'm not saying that 'Twilight' is, you know, some brilliant Oscar-winner, it's not 'Dr. Zhivago.' It's not trying to be. Because it is a female fantasy. I would argue that it's actually a universal fantasy. Which is, the fantasy being to be loved and cherished for exactly who you are.

  Melissa Rosenberg

  Twilight, Trying, Female

  "A Conversation with Melissa Rosenberg – Writer of the Twilight Series". Interview with Melissa Rosenberg, www.indiewire.com. November 20, 2012.

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• I'm not a very big fan of 'Slumdog Millionaire.' I think it's visually brilliant. But I have problems with the story line. I find the storyline unconvincing.

  Salman Rushdie

  Thinking, Fans, Stories

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