Great Things Quotes (page 14)

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• time
• greatness
• great

The great thing about having spent all this time on film sets is that I've been able to watch directors and how they work. I now know that this is what I want to do as well: to tell stories visually. But it's definitely my vision that I want to put across, nobody else's. Catherine McCormack

• film
• fun
• independent

I was concerned about that, because I've always been so specific about doing independent films, but I've never done anything that's so genuinely and ridiculously fun. And that's a great thing, for me to discover that that's possible. Sarah Polley

• character
• learning
• greatness

One of the great things that you should never do that I learned from John Malkovich is to never judge your characters. Jeremy Piven

• new york
• consider
• great

Being typecast is a great thing for an actor. I was considered one of the New York mob actors. Debi Mazar

• saying
• distance
• great

Well, the great thing for me about poetry is that in good poems the dislocation of words, that is to say, the distance between what they say they're saying and what they are actually saying is at its greatest. Harry Mathews

• moving
• great
• greatness

The great thing in the world is not so much where we stand, as in what direction we are moving. Oliver Wendell Holmes

• sailing
• greatness
• sometimes

I find the great thing in this world is not so much where we stand, as in what direction we are moving: To reach the port of heaven, we must sail sometimes with the wind and sometimes against it, but we must sail, and not drift, nor lie at anchor. Marjorie Holmes

• great
• greatness
• somebody

To me, it's very exhilarating when somebody else does a great thing, and it's not me. Louis C. K.

• old
• great
• greatness

There's a woman I see who's not my therapist, but she's like an old friend who's a therapist in profession. She lets me talk to her like a therapist once in a while, and she does a great thing. Whenever I have a big dilemma, like this is a big problem in my life, she always says, 'Wow, you're going to have to figure that out.' Louis C. K.

• moving
• family
• thoughts

I just thought that I had had my fill for a while and wanted to have a family. My husband was moving to Chicago for his job. And so I went along. And it was a great thing that I did. Lauren Holly

• greatness
• time
• looking back

When I was 20, I thought I was 30 - but I was so far from it. When you're young, you want everything to happen now. As you mature, you can look back and see all the great things you achieved with time and patience. Elisha Cuthbert

• life
• great
• greatness

And then a great thing in my life was going to India. Beatrice Wood

• great
• thinking
• greatness

I think it's the great thing about having kids. They have interests that you might not have, and it opens your horizons. Robert Martin

• career
• age
• greatness

The great thing about arriving at this age is that I don't even care about my career anymore. Ron Perlman

• powerful
• greatness
• power

Unless you choose to do great things with it, it makes no difference how much you are rewarded, or how much power you have. Oprah Winfrey