Brilliant Quotes - Page 27

• I do want to write about Jane Whitefield again, but only when I have a good enough idea - something I've figured out about her that's news and that's worth a reader's time.

  Thomas Perry

  Writing, Ideas, News

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• No, sometimes we just have to take liberties because the idea was so good. I wish we'd just gone with the idea that Patsy had been a man. It would have been fantastic.

  Jennifer Saunders

  Men, Ideas, Wish

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

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• Only a bad artist thinks he has a good idea. A good artist does not need anything.

  Ad Reinhardt

  Artist, Thinking, Ideas

  Ad Reinhardt, Barbara Rose (1991). “Art-as-art: The Selected Writings of Ad Reinhardt”, p.143, Univ of California Press

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• There's been a number of erroneous biographies, articles and so on written about Billy and we both thought it would be a good idea to produce a true one.

  Pamela Stephenson

  Ideas, Numbers, Would Be

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• It's a very good idea that we have a third term Labour government led by Tony Blair for a full term.

  Peter Mandelson

  Government, Ideas, Blair

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• There are a lot of people who would laugh at the idea of me being a good singer.

  Nancy Sinatra

  Ideas, People, Laughing

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

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• I have found out one thing and that is, if you have an idea, and it is a good idea, if you only stick to it you will come out all right.

  Cecil Rhodes

  Ideas, Sticks, Found

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• I have no plans for a future Jemima Shore mystery, but would write one tomorrow if a good idea came to me.

  Antonia Fraser

  Writing, Ideas, Tomorrow

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• Some stars like to hide behind the whole idea of acting. But really good actors are not hiding at all. They're not afraid to be disliked, to be a little unsavory.

  Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio

  Stars, Ideas, Acting

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

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• I'm no interior decorator, but just I have a feeling that plastic plants in the bathroom... probably not a good idea.

  Kyan Douglas

  Ideas, Feelings, Bathroom

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

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• I had no idea that it was gonna take off the way it did. I thought we made a good movie.

  Morgan Spurlock

  Ideas, Good Movie, Way

  Interview With Jeff Otto, www.ign.com. May 4, 2004.

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• It's not a good idea to put your wife into a novel; not your latest wife anyway.

  Norman Mailer

  Writing, Ideas, Wife

  Norman Mailer, Michael Lennon (1988). “Conversations with Norman Mailer”, p.90, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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• Sequels are very rarely a good idea, and in any case, the success of the book changed my relationship with the club in some ways.

  Nick Hornby

  Book, Ideas, Clubs

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• It is a good idea to know which publishers publish which stories. For example, there is no sense in sending a picture book text to a publisher who does not publish picture books.

  Margaret Mahy

  Book, Ideas, Example

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• I've never seen bad drawing destroy a good idea. On the other hand, I've never seen a good drawing save a bad idea.

  Paul Conrad

  Hands, Ideas, Drawing

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• That's why I ended up leaving school - because it required so much time, and it was such an excellent idea. I figured I would regret not going full force with this idea. It seemed we could make something of it.

  Shawn Fanning

  Regret, School, Ideas

  "Q&A: Napster creator Shawn Fanning". Interview with Giancarlo Varanini, www.zdnet.com. March 3, 2000.

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• We need to take excellent care of our customers, and do so at a profit.

  Gerard Arpey

  Needs, Care, Excellent

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• When all the performances are excellent, critics understand it's the direction.

  Joel Siegel

  Excellent, Critics, Performances

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• My older brother Mike is an excellent trumpet player. By the time he was 12, he was playing around Kansas City in classical situations. He was already an amazing talent.

  Pat Metheny

  Brother, Player, Cities

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• The pretended admission of a fault on our part creates an excellent impression.

  Quintilian

  Faults, Excellent, Impression

  Quintilian (2015). “Delphi Complete Works of Quintilian (Illustrated)”, p.1829, Delphi Classics

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• I always made my food congenial to my constitution, and my health was always excellent.

  Giacomo Casanova

  Constitution, Excellent, Made

  Giacomo Casanova (2013). “The Memoirs of Jacques Casanova de Seingalt Volume 1: The Venetian Years”, p.27, Simon and Schuster

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• My education at Baron Byng High School was excellent, with dedicated masters (boys and girls were separate).

  Rudolph A. Marcus

  Girl, School, Boys

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• If it's an excellent script, I enjoy it tremendously, the acting part of it.

  Julie London

  Acting, Scripts, Excellent

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• The scenes in the show were filmed with a crew of really excellent stunt jumpers, but we had the feel of the parachutes, so we could be more realistic in the roles.

  Ken Curtis

  Roles, Realistic, Scene

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• But I just really think there is a natural extension into other types of media because it's an excellent system for reliably locating and retrieving content.

  Shawn Fanning

  Thinking, Media, Excellent

  "Q&A: Napster creator Shawn Fanning". Interview with Giancarlo Varanini, www.zdnet.com. March 3, 2000.

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