Very Good Quotes - Page 13

• Facebook's the real deal. Nobody can buy Facebook now. Everybody has taken an angle at it. But Facebook may be the place that organizes everybody's personal information. It's got a very good chance of being that.

  Barry Diller

  Real, Taken, May

  CEO Forum: Media mogul Diller on Tweeter, Ticketmaster, etc.,

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• I never thought I was a very good manager.

  Barry Diller

  Good Man, Good Manager, Managers

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• I grew up in New Jersey and my father was a golf pro, so I was groomed for sports, but I wasn't very good, so my interests lay elsewhere.

  Joe Dante

  Sports, Father, Golf

  "Meet a matinee idol". The Scotsman Interview, www.scotsman.com. June 18, 2009.

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• Mr. Dingell is just plain Mr. Dingell. And when he gets to be chairman of the Commerce Committee, he doesn't let it go to his head. However, he thinks he would be a very, very good chairman.

  John Dingell

  Thinking, Let It Go, Would Be

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• Film is an editor's medium. You can create very good raw material and they can make it horrible, or you can do not so well and they can make it beautiful. You don't really know.

  Willem Dafoe

  Beautiful, Editors, Raw Materials

  Interview with Steven Hyden, www.avclub.com. September 25, 2007.

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• No matter what happens, I feel very good about the future.

  Chen Guangcheng

  Matter, Feels, Happens

  "Chen Guangcheng says he fears reprisals against his family" by Tania Branigan, www.theguardian.com. May 24, 2012.

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• People in America and Hollywood are very good at pronouncing my name, to begin with. Socially, they're very adept at listening to somebody's name and repeating it, cleverly in the first couple of sentences so the name sticks to begin with.

  Ioan Gruffudd

  Couple, Names, America

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• The computer is very good for me; I can magnify my work very easily.

  Jean Giraud

  Computer, I Can

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• Ice-skating is a dangerous proposition and tennis is going to be something I'm probably not very good at.

  Maggie Grace

  Ice, Tennis, Skating

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• If I can't negotiate something that gets more than four Republicans, I'm not a very good representative of my party.

  Chuck Grassley

  Party, Four, Republican

  "Countdown with Keith Olbermann", www.nbcnews.com. August 17, 2009.

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• I was a very good girl for a long time, that's what really drew me to acting. The stage was the perfect place to be outrageous, to be sad, to be angry, to be all these different things.

  Joan Allen

  Girl, Long, Perfect

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

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• I think the people who cast films tend to think of me in regard to strong women with integrity and a lot of it has been very good.

  Joan Allen

  Strong Women, Integrity, Thinking

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• A good default, like Portugal or Greece, would be very good for the private equity business.

  David Bonderman

  Would Be, Portugal, Default

  "TPG's Bonderman Sees Mega LBO Coming - $10-15B Deal". SuperReturn conference in Berlin, www.businessinsider.com. March 04, 2011.

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• I was lucky enough to get a very good agent at the age of 15, and got my first film when I was 16, so it's been rolling on since then.

  Douglas Booth

  Age, Rolling, Lucky

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• I'm actually very good with Home Depot-handy type of paintwork.

  Michael Ealy

  Home, Type, Handy

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• Could we have prevented in 100% certainty? I don't think anything is that certain. However, we would have had a very, very good chance for preventing it.

  Sibel Edmonds

  Thinking, Chance, Certain

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• I'm not very good at impersonations.

  Will Forte

  Interview with Sean O'Neal, film.avclub.com. May 21, 2010.

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• Poetry, especially traditional Iranian poetry, is very good at looking at things from a number of different angles simultaneously.

  Asghar Farhadi

  Numbers, Different, Angle

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• I don't think immediate tragedy is a very good source of art. It can be, but too often it's raw and painful and un-dealt-with. Sometimes art can be a really good escape from the intolerable, and a good place to go when things are bad, but that doesn't mean you have to write directly about the bad thing; sometimes you need to let time pass, and allow the thing that hurts to get covered with layers, and then you take it out, like a pearl, and you make art out of it.

  Neil Gaiman

  Art, Hurt, Mean

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• My grandmother told stories; she was very good at that.

  Cornelia Funke

  Grandmother, Stories, My Grandmother

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• I've been told I make a very good brew.

  Jessica Brown Findlay

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• I think all great actors - and I don't classify myself as one of them, incidentally - but I think all great actors listen well and I've learned that from a lot of the very good actors with whom I've worked - to really listen to what people say.

  John Frankenheimer

  Thinking, People, Actors

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• There are many interactions that an actor like me has in public when he gets recognized. The best are 'You're a great actor, good work,' and move on. A very good interaction could be when they say 'You were awesome on 'The West Wing,'' 'Loved 'In Her Shoes,' great movie,' ''What Women Want,' good job dude.

  Mark Feuerstein

  Jobs, Moving, Wings

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• There was never going to be a right time for a band that was still recording and had health in its environment, had made a very good record and was playing well.

  Peter Garrett

  Band, Records, Environment

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• I'm so lucky to have such a great family. I respect them so much professionally, and they've been unconditionally supportive in the choices that I've made. It's been very good having them on my side.

  Jack Huston

  Choices, Supportive, Sides

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