Wonderful Quotes - Page 35

• One of the pleasures of being an actor is quite simply taking a walk in someone else's shoes. And when I look at the roles I've played, I'm kind of amazed at all the wonderful adventures I've had and the different things I've learned.

  Willem Dafoe

  Adventure, Shoes, Different

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• Out of all the actors I have worked with, I love working with Larry Hagman the most. We were very close and it was just a wonderful time.

  Barbara Eden

  Actors, Larry, Wonderful Times

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

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• I loved being in the Senate. That was a wonderful experience.

  John Ensign

  Senate, Wonderful Experience

  "From senators to animals: Lawmaker who fell from grace now working as a vet" By Dana Bash, www.cnn.com. February 21, 2012.

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• I am becoming increasingly difficult to please as a reader, but I adore being surprised by a really wonderful book, written by someone I've never heard of before.

  Alexandra Fuller

  Book, Becoming, Difficult

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• You're not lonely when you're teaching, you're not quiet, you're laughing most of the time, you're having a wonderful time interacting with young people. It's the best fun in the world.

  Mem Fox

  Lonely, Fun, Teaching

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• It's a wonderful thing working with young actors. I know a lot of people don't like working with children. I actually adore it, because you watch their imagination open up and you watch them start to learn this job that I've been doing for so long. They come with such a lack of cynicism.

  Michelle Forbes

  Jobs, Children, Long

  "Q&A – Michelle Forbes (Mitch Larsen)". AMCtv.com Interview, www.amc.com.

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• I think saying you're bad at something is rather wonderful because then it doesn't matter anymore.

  Rupert Friend

  Thinking, Matter

  "The Observer interview: Rupert Friend" by Elizabeth Day, www.theguardian.com. December 26, 2009.

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• Skype is a wonderful thing. The irony is that you never Skype when you're in the same country as someone.

  Richard Fleeshman

  Country, Skype, Irony

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• I think especially in a world where you have so little say about what goes on in your life, or in the politics of the world around you, it is wonderful to go into that studio, and tell yourself what to do.

  Suzanne Farrell

  Thinking, Goes On, World

  "Ballerina of the Century". The Academy of Achievement Interview, www.achievement.org. December 16, 1990.

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• Getting to meet people that I've admired my entire life, and getting to meet them in such a way where they're coming in to play completely different characters than I had ever seen them do is just wonderful.

  Will Friedle

  Character, Play, People

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• President Reagan achieved such successes because when you sat in a room with him, there could be over 1,000 people in the room, yet you felt like there was only the two of you, and his wonderful wit would put you at ease. That was a tremendous gift.

  Elton Gallegly

  Two, People, President

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• This is what I wanted. They tell me that London is the best field in history. I wanted to be part of that. Because everyone will be there it will be a wonderful challenge for me. You can see the best runners, how they look, how they run. For me to beat the best is what counts.

  Haile Gebrselassie

  Running, Challenges, Looks

  Interview With Jim White, www.theguardian.com. April 8, 2002.

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• Ice cream is the perfect buffer, because you can do things in a somewhat lighthearted way. Plus, people have an emotional response to ice cream; it's more than just food. So I think when you combine caring, and eating wonderful food, it's a very powerful combination.

  Jerry Greenfield

  Powerful, Caring, Emotional

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• It's such a great feeling to make people laugh. I know I've made people cry or want to slit their wrists, but to make people laugh is a very intoxicating, wonderful thing.

  Joan Allen

  People, Laughing, Feelings

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

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• I've always thrown myself into different kinds of experiences, sometimes into really bad things. But, you grow up. You become more of a woman and you know yourself. I think knowing yourself is a wonderful thing especially when you're in your 40s and you're kind of in your skin. Life is not so confusing anymore.

  Lisa Edelstein

  Growing Up, Thinking, Knowing

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• Before I go off and direct a movie, I always look at four films. They tend to be The Seven Samurai, Lawrence Of Arabia, It's A Wonderful Life and The Searchers.

  Steven Spielberg

  Directors, Arabia, Looks

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• An organism exists for no other reason than that it is able to... The wonderful, almost transcendent thing about life on earth is that in order to so exist, organisms must relate to each other and to the earth itself.

  Richard Mabey

  Nature, Order, Earth

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• People say to me, Oh, it's so wonderful that you're writing about real things, and that it's a political thing to do, and I say, look-to be in my position and not say anything is a hell of a political thing. You need to think politically, otherwise you'll be one of these people who says, Oh, this person's saying this and that person's saying that, and I'm confused. And I say, yeah, because you want to be confused.

  Arundhati Roy

  Real, Confused, Writing

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• Writing is a sweet, wonderful reward.

  Franz Kafka

  Sweet, Writing, Rewards

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• We cannot make events. Our business is wisely to improve them. Mankind are governed more by their feeling than by reason. Events which excite those feelings will produce wonderful effects.

  Samuel Adams

  Business, Feelings, Events

  In J. N. Rakove 'The Beginnings of National Politics' (1979) p. 92

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• When I examine the conclusion [on experiments with the electric light bulb experiments published in the Herald] which everyone acquainted with the subject will recognize as a conspicuous failure, trumpeted as a wonderful success, I [conclude]... that the writer ... must either be very ignorant, and the victim of deceit, or a conscious accomplice in what is nothing less than a fraud upon the public.

  Henry Morton Stanley

  Failure, Science, Light

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• Are you quite sure that all those bells and whistles, all those wonderful facilities of your so called powerful programming languages, belong to the solution set rather than the problem set?

  Edsger Dijkstra

  Powerful, Code Quality, Bells

  Edsger Wybe Dijkstra (1976). “A Discipline of Programming”, Prentice Hall

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• Realizing your goal, resolution, or transformation is a journey. Change, like any meaningful endeavor, proceeds sequentially through steps. The journey begins with the contemplation stage of specifying realistic goals, getting ready, or getting psyched. The planning stage is all about prepping. How exactly will I do this thing? At some point you will jump from preparing and planning to perspiring, the work of implementing the new, desired behavior. Getting there is wonderful, but we need to keep you there, which entails persevering through slips and, finally, persisting over time.

  John C. Norcross

  Meaningful, Journey, Goal

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• ... regard this body as a machine which, having been made by the hand of God, is incomparably better ordered than any machine that can be devised by man, and contains in itself movements more wonderful than those in any machine. ... it is for all practical purposes impossible for a machine to have enough organs to make it act in all the contingencies of life in the way in which our reason makes us act.

  Rene Descartes

  Men, Hands, Purpose

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• Enhancement not only allows the possibilities of a healthy fullness and exuberance, but of a rather ominous extravagance, aberration, monstrosity ... This danger is built into the very nature of growth and life. Growth can become over-growth, life 'hyper-life' ... The paradox of an illness which can present as wellness - as a wonderful feeling of health and well-being, and only later reveal its malignant potentials - is one of the chimaeras, tricks and ironies of nature.

  Oliver Sacks

  Health, Feelings, Growth

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