Really Deep Quotes

• Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great make you feel that you, too, can become great.

  Mark Twain

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

  Mark Twain, Caroline Thomas Harnsberger (2009). “Mark Twain at Your Fingertips: A Book of Quotations”, p.354, Courier Corporation

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• I'm an ocean, because I'm really deep. If you search deep enough you can find rare exotic treasures.

  Christina Aguilera

  Funny, Ocean, Dumb

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• I really, deeply believe that dreams do come true. Often, they might not come when you want them. They come in their own time.

  Diana Ross

  Positive, Dream, Believe

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• When you really deep down look at it, we go to bed every night, get up every morning, stay here for 70 or 80 years, and then we die.

  Lee Trevino

  Morning, Night, Years

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• But television affords you, what you just described, to - over the course of 18 hours, now that we're doing a third season - tell the story of this man. You're not under any obligation, really, to do massive expositional stuff at the beginning. You're at liberty to say, "Come with us on this journey," and, gradually, you become aware of what his motivations are, what drives him, what his weaknesses are, what his strengths are. That's what I think's sucking people into these worlds, because it is kind of like a novel, you just go really, really deep.

  Cillian Murphy

  Motivation, Journey, Men

  "The Shy Man’s Revenge". Interview with Chris Wallace, www.interviewmagazine.com. November 17, 2014.

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• You've got a huge American population, you've got a small, small, small subset that is radicalized, and you have an even smaller subset that actually takes action. And you can't cover everyone who has some contact, someone bad. What you need is offense overseas, defense at home with intelligence and law enforcement, and really deep engagement with these communities.

  Michael Leiter

  Home, Law, Community

  Source: www.nbcnews.com

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• I believe really deeply in the pilot process because you learn things about tone and casting.

  John Landgraf

  Believe, Pilots, Casting

  Source: collider.com

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• We have a problem with women in leadership across the board. This leadership gap - this problem of not enough women in leadership - is running really deep and it's in every industry. My answer is we have to understand the stereotype assumptions that hold women back.

  Sheryl Sandberg

  Running, Boards, Answers

  Source: articles.chicagotribune.com

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• I find that you're drawn to certain stories, and there's something about fairytales that have deep roots. They connect really deeply to you, and those are the stories that I find myself drawn to. I love characters that believe the impossible is possible.

  Glen Keane

  Believe, Character, Roots

  Source: www.indielondon.co.uk

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• You see, painting has now become, or all art has now become completely a game, by which man distracts himself. What is fascinating actually is, that it's going to become much more difficult for the artist, because he must really deepen the game to become any good at all.

  Francis Bacon

  Art, Men, Games

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• I've never heard anyone say the really deep lessons of life have come in times of ease and comfort. But, I have heard many saints say every significant advance I've ever made in grasping in the depth of God's love and growing deep with Him, have come through suffering.

  John Piper

  Life Lesson, Suffering, Depth

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• I really, deeply believe in the primacy of character. I believe that my job as a writer is to put a believable human being on a page.

  Ayana Mathis

  Jobs, Believe, Character

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• When you love, deeply love another human being, really deeply, somewhere you will feel that you are still alone, and this very beloved human being has no access.

  Irina Tweedie

  Deep Love, Being Real, Beloved

  Source: www.goldensufi.org

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• I did a radio interview; the DJ's first question was "Who are you?" I had to think. Is this guy really deep, or did I drive to the wrong station?

  Mitch Hedberg

  Funny, Humor, Thinking

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• It's important for me to work with a strong director because I know I can go to some really deep places, I just need direction on how to get there.

  Eva Mendes

  Strong, Important, Directors

  Source: editorial.rottentomatoes.com

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• With a film, things constantly have to go up in the story, and you're constantly putting pressure on the main character. It allows to go really deep into what its relationship is.

  Jennifer Lee

  Character, Stories, Pressure

  "Chris Buck and Jennifer Lee interview: on making Frozen". Interview with Mark Harrison, www.denofgeek.com. December 6, 2013.

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• I was born in Memphis. There was music all around me, really deep and special music. I heard all these great masters at a young age.There was a great genius in my town, Phineas Newborn, who is one of the greatest pianists ever on the planet. He took me under his wings at about 9 and he put me on the right track.

  Charles Lloyd

  Wings, Track, Age

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• When people connect to my work, it makes me feel great. A lot of that stuff is really deep, and when I play something and people feel what I feel, and use it in important situations in their lives, like at weddings or funerals, that's so powerful. It means I can connect with them on an important level.

  Xavier Rudd

  Powerful, Mean, Play

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• There is something about the photographs that is endlessly disturbing. The fact that we like to think of them as torture actually hides what is really deeply offensive about them.

  Errol Morris

  Thinking, Facts, Offensive

  "Interrogating Errol Morris". Interview with Dave Gilson, www.motherjones.com. May/June 2008.

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• When I went kayak surfing in Cornwall, I got a really deep gash on my hand - it looked like I had a slug on it - so I went to Harley Street for surgery, because I looked like a battered woman when I was making things on Blue Peter.

  Konnie Huq

  Blue, Hands, Surfing

  "Konnie Huq: If I show my cleavage people make such a fuss". Mirror Interview, www.mirror.co.uk. November 30, 2008.

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• A book is not a tweet. A book is not a half-hour television show. A book requires for both reader and writer sustained discipline attention. It asks you to immerse yourself in something and really deeply feel it.

  Ben H. Winters

  Book, Discipline, Half

  Source: www.slate.com

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• That has been another interesting discovery: that basically a city [Lagos] could recover from a really deep, deep, deep pit.

  Rem Koolhaas

  Discovery, Cities, Interesting

  "'Lagos shows how a city can recover from a deep, deep pit': Rem Koolhaas talks to Kunlé Adeyemi". Interview with Chris Michael, www.theguardian.com. February 26, 2016.

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• I think that there is a real beauty to the live aspect of the theater, and the working with a director for a month on a script in the isolation of a room and really deeply delving into who are these people, what is the story we're telling, how do we want to tell it?

  Karen Allen

  Real, Thinking, People

  "Karen Allen on The Sandlot, liking the fourth Indiana Jones, and being typecast". Interview with Pete Croatto, www.avclub.com. February 13, 2016.

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• I just like to inhabit a character really deeply.

  Curtis Sittenfeld

  Character

  Source: therumpus.net

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• We get these really deep and emotional fan letters sometimes that are so heartbreaking or shocking or haunting sometimes that I can kind of relate to them in my own way and connect with our fans in that way.

  Vic Fuentes

  Emotional, Heartbreaking, Fans

  Source: www.popmatters.com

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