Fantastic Quotes - Page 40

• I suddenly realised, hey, I'm not a lazy idiot, I'm an idler! It's something to aspire to, it's part of the creative process! That's fantastic!

  Tom Hodgkinson

  Creative, Lazy, Idlers

  "How To Be Idle". Interview with Katie Renz, www.motherjones.com. June 8, 2005.

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• There are characters in movies who I call 'film characters.' They don't exist in real life. They exist to play out a scenario. They can be in fantastic films, but they are not real characters; what happens to them is not lifelike.

  Philip Seymour Hoffman

  Real, Character, Play

  Interview with Meghan O'Rourke, www.slate.com. January 31, 2006.

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• Well, what I love about '80s rock music is the amazing, fantastic melodies.

  Julianne Hough

  Rocks, Rock Music, Music Is

  Interview with Dimitri Ehrlich, www.interviewmagazine.com. March 31, 2012.

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• London is a fantastic creator of jobs - but many of these jobs are going to people who don't originate in this country.

  Boris Johnson

  Country, Jobs, People

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

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• Poetry, even when apparently most fantastic, is always a revolt against artifice, a revolt, in a sense, against actuality.

  James Joyce

  Writing, Revolt, Artifice

  James Joyce, Kevin Barry, Conor Deane (2000). “Occasional, Critical, and Political Writing”, p.59, Oxford University Press, USA

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• I can think of no one more relevant and credible in the hip-hop community to build upon Def Jam's fantastic legacy and move the company into its next groundbreaking era.

  Jay-Z

  Moving, Thinking, Hip Hop

  "Jay-Z Named President of Def Jam Records". www.foxnews.com. December 09, 2004.

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• It is so fascinating that someone can commit their whole entire lifestyle to being such a fantastic woman when I'm such a bum about it.

  Kesha

  Lifestyle, Commit, Whole

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

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• Even though I am fantastic looking, I am still quite intelligent.

  Shahrukh Khan

  Intelligent, Stills

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• I think these shows with the young kids doing these jumps, doing these fantastic back flips, I think they're absolutely great. They did what I never did.

  Evel Knievel

  Kids, Thinking, Flip

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• Analysis gave me great freedom of emotions and fantastic confidence. I felt I had served my time as a puppet.

  Hedy Lamarr

  Puppets, Analysis, Emotion

  Hedy Lamarr (1966). “Ecstasy and me: my life as a woman”

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• There are some guys I know for a fact, like Louis C.K., who always talk about how not-great of an actor he is, and he's terrific on his show. But I know Louis would play a fantastic dramatic role in something, too. He just needs somebody to grab him and say, "Come in here and do this."

  Denis Leary

  Play, Guy, Needs

  "Denis Leary on 'The Amazing Spider-Man,' comedy, and life after 'Rescue Me'". Interview with Rick Marshall, www.ifc.com. July 31, 2012.

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• Churches, depending on their policy, can do fantastic work with people in the community.

  Annie Lennox

  People, Community, Church

  "Question time: Annie Lennox". Interview with Hannah Pool, www.theguardian.com. November 25, 2009.

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• Fantastic writing in English is kind of disreputable, but fantastic writing in translation is the summit.

  Jonathan Lethem

  Writing, Kind, Summit

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• As a child, you respond physically, tactically. You're delighted by sound, you're delighted by recognizing something. It's like hide and seek. Is it there? Is it not there? Is it this note? Is it not this note? It's one fantastic game.

  Yo-Yo Ma

  Children, Games, Sound

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• Tricks you need to transform something which appears fantastic, unbelievable into something plausible, credible, those I learned from journalism. The key is to tell it straight. It is done by reporters and by country folk.

  Gabriel Garcia Marquez

  Country, Keys, Needs

  Interview with Marlise Simons, archive.nytimes.com. December 5, 1982.

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• Shakespeare's stories are still very strong. He structured fantastic stories about things that were fundamental to the human being and psyche.

  James McAvoy

  Strong, Stories, Fundamentals

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• It's just fantastic to go out and meet people in the world and get to really remote places.

  Ewan McGregor

  People, World, Remote Places

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• I would love Kate Middleton to be in 'Glee.' Wouldn't that be fantastic? That would be great.

  Lea Michele

  Glee, Would Be, Kate

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• The token gay character is always so funny and so fantastic. That's happened a lot. Or they're often purely victims.

  Ezra Miller

  Character, Gay, Victim

  "SBIFF 2013: Ezra Miller Talks about THE PERKS OF BEING A WALLFLOWER, His Reaction When He First Read the Book, and More". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. January 31, 2013.

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• I'm a rapper... Gaga's a fantastic artist, you know, she paved her way. She's opened her own lane. But I think that I have my own lane. And we never cross. Ever. So, you know, I really don't get the comparison anymore. Our music doesn't sound the same. Our stage presence is not the same. I just can't see the similarities.

  Nicki Minaj

  Artist, Thinking, Rapper

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• If you look at that incredible burst of fantastic characters that emerged in the late 19th century/early 20th century, you can see so many of the fears and hopes of those times embedded in those characters. Even in throwaway bits of contemporary culture you can often find some penetrating insights into the real world around us.

  Alan Moore

  Real, Character, Culture

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• It's fantastic to strive towards a nice life where you eat nice organic food and your children go to a nice school and you can afford nice clothes and nice perfume and the hypoallergenic make-up. But there's never a day goes by, and I mean this from the bottom of my heart, that I don't think about where I'm from.

  Samantha Morton

  Children, Nice, Heart

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• Arsenal have won that advantage, nobody gave it to them. By playing fantastic football and by winning matches and by winning trophies, they won that respect that the opponent has for them.

  Jose Mourinho

  Football, Winning, Opponents

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• In my younger days, I was trying to write sophisticated prose and fantastic stories.

  Haruki Murakami

  Writing, Trying, Stories

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• Anyone that has a music career and an acting career I think is pretty fantastic.

  Brittany Murphy

  Thinking, Careers, Acting

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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