Very Good Quotes - Page 24

• I hope and assume that every good comedy writer, no matter the age, has a moment where they discover how great Cheers is.

  Amy Poehler

  Cheer, Age, Matter

  "The Cheers Effect: Amy Poehler". Interview with Brian Raftery, www.gq.com. September 27, 2012.

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• For some reason there's this myth that creativity - [especially] in terms of creative writing - is a gift you either have, or you don't. So when people first start writing, if they write something that's not very good, or if they try and it's difficult, they go, "Oh, I guess I don't have it." That doesn't seem very fair, you have to try and you have to work at it. If we get scared of one bad poem and quit, that's not doing anybody any good.

  Sarah Kay

  Writing, Creativity, People

  Source: saseye.com

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• My daughter, Lila, is my style critic. She'll say, "No, Mummy, you can't wear that." She's very good. I do trust her instinct.

  Kate Moss

  Daughter, Style, Instinct

  Source: www.harpersbazaar.com

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• Hip-hop music has done a very good job of maintaining the political context, where they stand and not giving a sh-t what people think.

  Conor Oberst

  Jobs, Thinking, People

  Source: www.ew.com

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• Sorrow makes us very good or very bad.

  George Sand

  Sorrow

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• My mother is a good woman - a very good woman - and I am, I think, not quite all criminality, but we do not pull together. I am a piece of machinery which, not understanding, my mother winds up the wrong way, setting all the wheels of my composition going in creaking discord.

  Miles Franklin

  Mother, Thinking, Wind

  Miles Franklin (2009). “My Brilliant Career”, p.63, The Floating Press

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• I place flowers in the very first rank of simple pleasures; and I have no very good opinion of the hard worldly people who take no delight in them.

  Mary Russell Mitford

  Flower, Simple, People

  Mary Russell Mitford (1870). “The Life of Mary Russell Mitford: Related in a Selection from Her Letters to Her Friends”, p.189, London, R. Bentley

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• Most movies are not very good. Most people know it and like to see them anyway.

  Renata Adler

  Movie, People, Knows

  Renata Adler (1969). “A year in the dark: journal of a film critic, 1968-69”

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• The aristocrat, when he wants to, has very good manners. The Scottish upper classes, in particular, have that shell-shocked look that probably comes from banging their heads on low beams leaping to their feet whenever a woman comes into the room. Aristocrats are also deeply male chauvinist, and ... on the whole they tend to be reactionary.

  Jilly Cooper

  Upper Class, Feet, Good Man

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• for the first time I tasted this tropical fruit, which people here are so fond of. ... I could have fancied I was biting into soap. I have a notion that we shall not become very good friends, the banana and I.

  Fredrika Bremer

  Food, Good Friend, People

  Fredrika Bremer, Adolph Benson, Carrie Catt (2007). “America of the Fifties: Letters of Fredrika Bremer”, p.98, Applewood Books

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• One may be my very good friend, and yet not of my opinion.

  Margaret Cavendish

  Friendship, Good Friend, May

  Margaret Cavendish (2004). “Sociable Letters”, p.60, Broadview Press

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• In addition to comedy, I'm a writer. I write checks. They're not very good.

  Wendy Liebman

  Writing, Comedy, Checks

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• Works without faith are like a fish without water, it wants the element it should live in. A building without a basis cannot stand; faith is the foundation, and every good action is as a stone laid.

  Owen Feltham

  Faith, Water, Want

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• Recently I have been spending my lunch with other game directors playing over local connection battle in Spirit Tracks. It is very good to do that in order to facilitate better communications between us. I have been partnering with the director of the Spirit Tracks to fight against the director of the new Wii game and yes, recently we have been winning!

  Eiji Aonuma

  Communication, Fighting, Winning

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• I was a very, very good congressman.

  Dan Maffei

  Congressman

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• When I was 3 years old, I thought I was very good at skiing.

  Mikaela Shiffrin

  Years, Skiing

  "Not My Job: Skier Mikaela Shiffrin Gets Quizzed On Downhill Cheese Races". "Wait Wait...Don't Tell Me!" with Peter Sagal, www.npr.org. July 11, 2014.

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• We begin every act of choice and avoidance from pleasure, and it is to pleasure that we return using our experience of pleasure as the criterion of every good thing.

  Epicurus

  Choices, Return, Pleasure

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• Purity of action guided Janis's behavior. If she was going to be good, she was very, very good. If she was going to be bad, she let all the stops out. Anything less than full commitment to an idea of activity was 'hypocritical', the worst adjective anyone could hurl at another.

  Laura Joplin

  Commitment, Ideas, Adjectives

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• Ronald Reagan is the closest thing [to the strong conservative] we have.He said that we shouldn't spend money we don't have, and he said that the government shouldn't get involved in things that it's not very good at doing.

  Michael Enzi

  Strong, Government, Conservative

  Source: www.nbcnews.com

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• People everywhere have been very, very good to me, whether I'm with or without cameras.

  Anthony Bourdain

  People, Cameras, Has Beens

  "Anthony Bourdain The ‘Parts Unknown’ Interview". Interview with Kam Williams, newsblaze.com. January 9, 2015.

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• I don't know why I am internally a violent person. I don't have the normal nerve endings most people do, which was very good for me as a pilot in Viet Nam. When most people are afraid, I'm actually quite excited about things. The more dangerous something is, the happier I am.

  Robert Kiyosaki

  People, Nerves, Pilots

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• I'm not one of those actors who's very good at having a list of roles that I want to play someday - which is bad, because I really need to do it. I have people in theaters ask me what I want to do and I don't have an answer!

  Michael Cerveris

  Play, People, Needs

  Source: www.broadwayworld.com

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• Some characters are like some bodies in chemistry; very good, perhaps, in themselves, yet fly off and refuse the least conjunction with each other.

  Sir Fulke Greville

  Character, Body, Chemistry

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• I wasn't very good about the pain. I started screaming for painkillers after the third contraction and didn't stop until my daughter was eating solid food.

  Linda Sunshine

  Daughter, Pain, Eating

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• There are three very good reasons to travel: 1. See the world. 2. Meet new people. 3. Room service.

  Linda Sunshine

  Travel, People, Room Service

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