Very Good Quotes - Page 2

• Well my taste wasn't very good when I first started out. But later, when I began to appreciate the art of acting, I would say the actress I most admire is Vanessa Redgrave.

  Ellen Burstyn

  Art, Appreciate, Acting

  "Ellen Burstyn - part two". Guardian interview, www.theguardian.com. November 4, 2000.

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• If I have learned one thing in my 54 years, it is that it is very good for the character to engage in sports which put your life in danger from time to time. It breeds a saneness in dealing with day to day trivialities which probably cannot be got in any other way, and a habit of quick decisions.

  Nevil Shute

  Sports, Character, Climbing

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• What do you think of the criticism that you're not very good?

  George Harrison

  Thinking, Criticism

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• No producer should revive a play unless they have a very good reason for it. I think there's quite enough about a good play to make it available to new audiences.

  Timothy West

  Thinking, Play, Reason

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• Independent dance - and, fine, it's a very good thing that it remains independent - is a much tougher life: all dancers expect that, and accept that there will be periods of not being able to work, provided there are choice moments during the year when they really can work.

  Siobhan Davies

  Independent, Years, Choices

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• By the time I got to the Paris Conservatoire I was very good at the scales and arpeggios.

  James Galway

  Paris, Scales

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• An actor who is good at comedy can also be very good at drama, but not necessarily vice versa.

  Desi Arnaz

  Drama, Vices, Actors

  Desi Arnaz (1994). “A Book”

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• The next best thing to a very good joke is a very bad one.

  Julius Charles Hare

  Next, Best Things, Jokes

  Julius Charles Hare, Augustus William Hare, Edward Hayes Plumptre (1871). “Guesses at Truth”, p.162

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• Every good army needs a couple of criminals.

  Dean Lombardi

  Couple, Army, Criminals

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• The only reason I would have liked to have gone to university is because I like cricket. Not a very good reason to want to go, but as good as any, I suppose.

  Jeffrey Bernard

  Gone, Want, Reason

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• I finally did work out a very good relationship with my father, but it was rough growing up. We had a lot of conflict, and I think it surfaced in many of my works.

  Ira Levin

  Growing Up, Father, Thinking

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• I worked for some very good people who have helped me along the way and actually enabled me to have the opportunity to be selected to join the Astronaut Corps.

  Duane G. Carey

  Opportunity, People, Way

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• Everything I know about pop culture I know from 'The Simpsons,' and they say the Grammys aren't very good.

  Jonny Greenwood

  Culture, Pops, Knows

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• I think when I came into marriage -- especially when you've had divorced parents like myself... You'd want to try even harder to make it work and you don't want to fall back into a pattern that you've seen happen in your own family. I desperately want it to work; I desperately love my husband and I wanted to share everything together. And I thought that we were a very good team.

  Princess Diana

  Husband, Team, Fall

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• If I’d only known which [photographs] would be very good and liked, I wouldn’t have had to do all the thousands of others.

  Saul Leiter

  Would Be, Photograph, Ifs

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• While we lament the apparent injustice of pain and suffering, how often do we forget that every good thing in a fallen world is wholly a gift of God's mercy and grace.

  Matt Chandler

  Pain, Grace, Suffering

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• I'm here to tell you that I am proud of a couple of things. First, I am very good at projectile vomiting. Second, I've never had a really serious venereal disease.

  Herb Kelleher

  Couple, Vomiting, Disease

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• It is not my experience that we are here to fix the world, that we are here to change anything at all. I think we are here so the world can change us. And if part of that change is that the suffering of the world moves us compassion, to awareness, to sympathy, to love, that is a very good thing.

  Cheri Huber

  Love, Change, Moving

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• Mick's not good on his own problems, but he's very good at other people's. He's been wonderful over the years. I don't mean I ring him up every week, but he's fantastic.

  Charlie Watts

  Mean, Years, People

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• If we think about emotion this way - as outside-in, not inside out - it is possible to understand how some people can have an enormous amount of influence over others. Some of us, after all, are very good at expressiing emotions and feelings, which means that we are far more emotionally contagious than the rest of us.

  Malcolm Gladwell

  Mean, Thinking, People

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• A Lucky Child is an extraordinary story, simply and beautifully told. Heartbreaking and thrilling, it examines what it means to be human, in every good and awful sense. Perhaps most amazingly of all, Thomas Buergenthal remembers and renders the small mysteries and grand passions of childhood, even a childhood lived under the most horrific circumstances.

  Elizabeth McCracken

  Children, Mean, Passion

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• Every good composition is above all a work of abstraction. All good painters know this. But the painter cannot dispense with subjects altogether without his work suffering impoverishment.

  Diego Rivera

  Suffering, Painter, Composition

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• Well, the thing is, I actually have a fear of horses, so I wouldnt make a very good cowboy.

  Johnny Christ

  Horse, Cowboy, Wells

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• Laissez Faire was very good sauce for the goose, labor, but was very poor sauce for the gander, capital.

  Benjamin Tucker

  Sauce, Laissez Faire, Poor

  Benjamin Ricketson Tucker (1972). “Instead of a Book”

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• Documentation is like sex: when it is good, it is very, very good; and when it is bad, it is better than nothing.

  Dick Brandon

  Funny, Movie, Sex

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