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• Lord of the Rings is a good thing for us because it opened the door for the genre in general. Ursula Le Guin's stories are very different from Lord of the Rings.

  Shawn Ashmore

  Doors, Stories, Different

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• I just think swing is a matter of some good things put together that you can really pat your foot by. I can't define it beyond that.

  Count Basie

  Thinking, Swings, Feet

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• I was a French Quarter rat from the moment I could get on a bus by myself and go to the French Quarter. I played music most of my early life and it just seemed that to entertain people was a really good thing to do.

  John Larroquette

  French Quarter, People, Rats

  "Tavis Smiley Tonight", October 18, 2008.

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• There are a lot of good things about being famous but there are a few not so good things too

  Sharon Stone

  Fame, Being Famous

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• When you're sad, you're not sad. You are merely oblivious to the good things in your life. There is always a crack of light in the darkness. Find it.

  Dianna Agron

  Inspirational, Sad, Dark

  FaceBook post by Dianna Agron from Jul 18, 2012

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• I just want to be in good things that I want to see, and I want to work with talented people who are smarter than myself.

  Adam Brody

  People, Want, Smarter

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• Being on a successful television show is a good thing. It’s steady work. It’s a chance to work with a group of people in an intimate way… where you develop a sort of shorthand with each other, and a trust.

  Kelly Rowan

  Successful, People, Groups

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• Inviting people to laugh with you while you are laughing at yourself is a good thing to do. You may be a fool but you're the fool in charge.

  Carl Reiner

  People, Laughing, May

  Carl Reiner (2014). “My Anecdotal Life: A Memoir”, p.9, St. Martin's Press

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• The only really good thing about acting in movies is that there's no heavy lifting.

  Cary Grant

  Acting, Heavy, Lifting

  Nancy Lynn Nelson, Cary Grant (1991). “Evenings With Cary Grant: Recollections in His Own Words and by Those Who Knew Him Best”, William Morrow & Company

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• I spend a lot of time at my son’s school and I really wanted to do a movie that the kids could see. The good thing about being my age and not having to be the ingenue anymore is that I get to be a mom. I get to have kids in my movies.

  Virginia Madsen

  Mom, School, Kids

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• Just watch. Pigs get fat, hogs get slaughtered. When you try to take it too far, people turn the other way. I'm just telling you, when you've got a good thing and you get greedy, it always, always, always, always, always turns on you. That's rule No. 1 of business.

  Mark Cuban

  Pigs, People, Trying

  "Mark Cuban predicted the NFL's ratings free fall years ago - and his theory might be coming true" by Nathan McAlone, www.businessinsider.com. November 3, 2016.

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• I don't care what anyone says. Being rich is a good thing.

  Mark Cuban

  Care, Rich, I Don't Care

  "Get rich, pay taxes: it's a patriotic duty" by Mark Cuban, www.theguardian.com. September 22, 2011.

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• Making people laugh is giving, and it's healing, too, when people can go up to the movies and forget about their problems. It's a good thing. That's why I want to work.

  Chris Tucker

  Healing, People, Giving

  "Chris Tucker and Brett Ratner". Interview with Nathan Rabin, www.avclub.com. August 07, 2007.

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• People say having kids is life changing, well that doesn't necessarily mean a good thing, does it? I could take one of my legs off. That would change my life.

  Karl Pilkington

  Life Changing, Mean, Kids

  TV Series "The Moaning of Life", (2013– ).

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• What I’m saying is, when different experiments give you the same result, it is no longer subject to your opinion. That’s the good thing about science: It’s true whether or not you believe in it. That’s why it works.

  Neil deGrasse Tyson

  Believe, Giving, Different

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• Fiction can show you a different world. It can take you somewhere you’ve never been. Once you’ve visited other worlds, like those who ate fairy fruit, you can never be entirely content with the world that you grew up in. Discontent is a good thing: discontented people can modify and improve their worlds, leave them better, leave them different.

  Neil Gaiman

  Other Worlds, People, Fruit

  "Neil Gaiman: Why our future depends on libraries, reading and daydreaming". www.theguardian.com. October 15, 2013.

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• Sometimes I go, “What am I doing with my life?” But then I get letters from young women, or people come up to me, and they say, “You’ve made such a difference to my confidence.” And that is a good thing. I should read more fan mail though. I’m crap at responding.

  Helena Bonham Carter

  Differences, People, Mail

  Interview with Tom Mottram, www.stylist.co.uk.

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• It looks like a marathon. And I'm proud that I'm not a DNF (did not finish). I'm not a DNF yet. I just kept going. I think that's been the key is just to keep going and really try to get better and try to be as truthful as I can and hope that good things come my way.

  Jennifer Beals

  Thinking, Keys, Get Better

  Chicago Tribune, March 21, 2011.

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• Happiness is a road seldom traveled by the multitudes. If you find it, please, don't take it for granted. If you Happen to stray from it, don't let negative obstacles overcome you. Anger and rage only detour you from your final objectives. The future holds nothing but opportunity, and good things happen to good people I promise

  Jeff Hardy

  Opportunity, People, Promise

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• Cher's great, she's incredible. She is an enormous, enormous star, who goes anywhere and crowds follow her...and yet she's a disciplined actress and she's down to Earth and cool. I can't say enough good things about her.

  Greg Kinnear

  Stars, Earth, Crowds

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• So next time someone complains that you have made a mistake, tell him that may be a good thing. Because without imperfection, neither you nor I would exist.

  Stephen Hawking

  Mistake, Imperfection, May

  "Into the Universe with Stephen Hawking", 2010.

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• Inside the first 20 to 25 games of the season, we were losing these games, getting beat by two and three points. Over the last 10 games, it seems like we're starting to win these games and putting some good things together.

  Ray Allen

  Winning, Games, Two

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• You need bad things to make good things. It’s like with farming— if you want to grow a good crop, you need a lot of manure.

  Mike Watt

  Needs, Want, Farming

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• I think Atom Heart Mother was a good thing to have attempted, but I don't really think the attempt comes off that well.

  David Gilmour

  Mother, Heart, Thinking

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• I have to be careful what I ask for in life, cause I always seem to get it! The good thing is, Ive got a purpose now, whereas before my purpose was to go out and party.

  Robbie Williams

  Party, Purpose, Causes

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