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“No one trusts me any more. I spent half the movie Maigret (1988) (TV) arguing with people and I was accused of causing big on-set rows. But what they won't tell you is I fought for Simeneon. I fought for the maintenance of quality. I don't believe in lyin.”

People Believe Bigs Half Quality Tvs Don't Believe Arguing Accused Trust Me Maintenance

Author:Richard Harris

“Abortion, however, is a big threshold issue for me because the dominant majority of people in my state are pro-choice. I ran as a pro-choice Democrat, and she fills Sandra Day O'Connor's shoes, and they are critical shoes.”

People States Bigs Choices Issues Majority Democrat Shoes Critical Ran Abortion Dominant Threshold Sandra Day O Connor

Author:Dianne Feinstein

“The big-business mergers and the big-labour mergers have the appearance of dinosaurs mating.”

Bigs Capitalism Appearance Labour Dinosaurs Big Business Mating Mergers

Author:John Naisbitt

“The sun enriched the old poles grandly... The mothers expressed all womanhood - the big wooden hands holding the child were so full of tenderness they had to be distorted enormously in order to contain it all. Womanhood was strong in Kitwancool.”

Children Hands Bigs Mother Order Strong Sun Gender Tenderness Womanhood Hand Holding

Book:The Emily Carr Omnibus

Source: The Emily Carr Omnibus

“So still were the big woods where I sat, sound might not yet have been born.”

Has Beens Stills Bigs Might Sound Born Silence Woods Staring Sat Dialect

Book:Growing Pains: The Autobiography of Emily Carr

Source: Growing Pains: The Autobiography of Emily Carr

“Moreover, the eye contains a big flaw: the retina is inside out. Why would an almighty designer do such a thing? No intelligent designer, .. would put such a clumsy arrangement in a camcorder, and this is just one of the hundreds of accidents frozen in evolutionary history that confirm the mindlessness of the historical process.”

Bigs Eye Process Intelligent Historical Accidents Designer Just One Flaws Almighty Arrangements Frozen Clumsy Intelligent Design

Author:Daniel Dennett

“Without ethics, everything happens as if we were all five billion passengers on a big machinery and nobody is driving the machinery. And it's going faster and faster, but we don't know where.”

Ifs Knows Bigs Happens Five Ethics Billions Driving Things Happen Faster Machinery Passengers

Author:Jacques Yves Cousteau

“Never be seduced into believing it isn't the role of business to tackle the big issues, because it absolutely is.”

Believe Bigs Roles Issues

Author:Anita Roddick

“I dream of big things. I work for the small things. If you're going to dream, you might as well dream big. A lot of that came from my mother. She was adamant about the work ethic---about how you can't just dream things.”

Ifs Wells Dream Bigs Might Mother Ethics Work Ethic Big Things Small Things Adamant

Author:Kevin Costner

“There is force and vitality in a first sketch from life which the after-work rarely has... In your sketches keep the first vivid impression! Add no details that shall weaken it! Look first for the big things! 1st. Proportions! 2nd. Values - or masses of light and shade. 3rd. Details that will not spoil the beginnings!”

Firsts Looks Bigs Light Values Force Strength Mass Add Details Impression Proportion Shade Big Things Vitality Vivid Spoil

Author:William Morris Hunt

“I had already done Rainbow in Curved Air and had a big record on CBS. I was launched to have a long career and then I just dropped out and went to India.”

Long Done Bigs Careers Records Air India Rainbow Long Careers

Author:Terry Riley

“I'm a big proponent of Hawk-Eye. I think it's a wonderful addition, not only for the players, but more importantly for the fans.”

Thinking Bigs Eye Player Wonderful Fans Hawks

Author:Jim Courier

“My one big regret was that there were no scenes that I could play with Eva Marie Saint. I hounded them. I said figure out some way, I just want to play a scene with this woman. But there was no way to make it work.”

Way Want Said Play Bigs Figures Regret Scene Saint Marie

Author:Jessica Lange

“The Tories are now the party of rural areas and Labour essentially is in the big cities”

Bigs Party Cities Areas Labour Big Cities Rural Areas

Author:Vince Cable

“I hope that what you take away from my album is not just the music - which I did want to be fun, and I did want it to be about individuality, but please also take away from it that there's no dream that's too big.”

Want Dream Bigs Fun Please Individuality Albums

Author:Lady Gaga

“If you only believe that you're an artist when you have a big advance in your pocket and a single coming out, I would say that's quite soulless. You have to have a sense of your own greatness and your own ability from a very deep place inside you. I am the one with the litmus test in my hands of what people need to hear next.”

People Ifs Needs Believe Hands Bigs Artist Next Ability Greatness Tests Pockets Coming Out Very Deep Soulless

Author:Lady Gaga

“My wife is really unhappy with my agent. But I'm the big winner.”

Bigs Wife My Wife Unhappy Agents Winner Unhappiness

Author:James Denton

“It takes years to establish yourself, and then you have one big film and everyone calls you an overnight success. You think, 'Christ, I've been sweating and crying for seven years.'.”

Thinking Years Bigs Film Christ Cry Seven Seven Years Sweating Overnight Success

Author:Joseph Fiennes

“I don't regret pulling the trigger. I should have been more careful with many of the things I said afterwards. That was a big regret.”

Should Has Beens Said Bigs Regret Should Have Careful Pulling Triggers Should Have Been Don't Regret Pulling The Trigger

Author:Bernhard Goetz

“Sometimes I scrape off a lot. You have on the floor, like cow dung in the field, this big glob of paint... and it's just a lot of inert matter, inert paint. Then I look back at the canvas, and it's not inert - it's active, moving and living.”

Looks Sometimes Matter Bigs Moving Fields Paint Active Cows Canvas Dissatisfaction

Author:Philip Guston

“These so-called big stars are people we are supposed to be looking up to. Well they are weak and soft. Priorities have changed in football and they are being dictated to by their wives.”

People Wells Bigs Stars Wife Changed Football Weak Priorities Supposed To Be

Author:Roy Keane

“Great, big, serious novels always get awards. If it's a battle between a great, big, serious novel and a funny novel, the funny novel is doomed.”

Ifs Writing Bigs Funny Literature Novel Fate Serious Battle Awards Doomed Award Winning Winning Awards

Author:Neil Gaiman

“So, I gained a little..weight, .. Big deal. Clean and sober.”

Littles Bigs Deals Weight Clean Sober Big Deal Cleanliness

Author:Courtney Love

“Theme-park approach to nature. We judge plants and animals by whether they're entertaining to us. We gravitate toward animals and plants that are big, dramatic, beautiful and at eye-level.”

Bigs Eye Beautiful Animal Levels Judging Approach Plant Dramatic Parks Theme Entertaining Plants And Animals Theme Parks

Author:Gary Larson

“If you are going to be a big personality, you've got to have some kind of characteristic gimmick.”

Ifs Kind Character Bigs Personality Characteristics Gimmicks

Author:Farley Mowat

“Don't make a big distinction between fiction and non-fiction. These are arbitrary distinctions.”

Bigs Fiction Distinction Arbitrary Non Fiction

Author:Farley Mowat

“If you're not a big club, you choose one competition and you fight in that competition and forget the others. Big clubs - we cannot do this”

Ifs Bigs Fighting Forget Competition Clubs You Choose

Author:Jose Mourinho

“Make big plans, but change your plans as time changes.”

Bigs Plans

Author:Kenny Marchant

“Symphony is the ability to see the big picture, connect the dots, combine disparate things into something new. Visual artists in particular are good at seeing how the pieces come together. I experienced this myself by trying to learn to draw.”

Trying Bigs Together Artist Ability Pieces Seeing Particular Draws Visuals Something New Symphony Dots Big Picture Visual Art Ability To See Visual Artist

Author:Daniel H. Pink

“We had a chance to see a lot of different styles of play and you had to adapt to the different style each team plays. That?s going to help us come tournament time because the game in the Pac-10 is different from the Big East and we know how to adapt to the different styles. I?m glad I had that opportunity.”

Knows Different Play Helping Bigs Opportunity Games Chance Know How Team Style East Glad Tournaments Adaptability Different Styles Pacs

Author:Allan Ray

“I don't think I'm mainstream. I think what I am is lots and lots of different cults. And when you get lots and lots of small groups who like you a lot, they add up to a big group without ever actually becoming mainstream.”

Thinking Different Bigs Groups Like You Becoming Add Mainstream Cult Small Groups

Author:Neil Gaiman

“Throw away those little pieces of paper. Get yourself a big, beautiful canvas. Bring from this nature the most beautiful colors. Find the serene scene within. Find the joy in each corner of your life. Sit still and feel what is within you. Sit still and paint like you have never painted before.”

Feels Littles Stills Bigs Beautiful Joy Pieces Color Like You Scene Paper Paint Corners Within You Canvas Renewal Serene Beautiful Colors

Author:Prem Rawat

“I don't know how we could use it to improve the job that umpires do, ... The human element in sport has always been a big part of the game. I'm a football fan, too, and I hate instant replay in the NFL. Football games are taking four hours.”

Knows Humans Use Bigs Jobs Hate Games Sports Hours Know How Four Fans Football Elements I Hate Instant Nfl Umpires Football Game Football Fan Replay Nfl Football Instant Replay

Author:Bud Selig

“I hate reality shows like Big Brother and I'm A Celebrity. I'd rather watch a goldfish bowl.”

Shows Bigs Reality Hate Watches Brother I Hate Bowls Reality Shows Goldfish

Author:Janet Street-Porter

“I am all for art's finding a large audience. But the way that's happening now, with big works filling big galleries and bigger shows, is mostly stopping statements from being made. Or heard. Or talked about. Or really examined. It's watering things down.”

Way Art Made Shows Bigs Audience Heard Findings Happenings Bigger Statements Stopping Filling Gallery

Author:Jerry Saltz

“The Republicans I've been talking to have said, 'Oh, the public is cynical about indictments, they happen so often.' Well, that's whistling past the graveyard, because the average voter is only going to remember that one of the big Republican head honchos in Congress was indicted. They won't remember the name or position, but they'll remember it says Congress is corrupt and maybe the majority party is corrupt.”

Wells Said Bigs Happens Past Remember Names Party Talking Position Republican Majority Congress Average Corruption Voters Cynical Graveyard Whistling Indictment

Author:Larry Sabato

“Storytelling is the only studio movie where the censorship is perfectly clear, the only studio movie with a big red box covering up a shot. I take pride in that - and, of course, in having avoided the fate of Eyes Wide Shut.”

Bigs Eye Courses Clear Fate Pride Shots Red Boxes Studios Wide Storytelling Censorship Avoided Covering

Author:Todd Solondz

“You never know what`s going to be big. It`s the fans. It was just a Disney Channel Movie and the kids made it huge... For High School Musical 2 (2007) (TV), we just wanted to have fun and make something together.”

Knows Made Bigs Kids Wanted School Together Fun Fans Tvs Huge High School Musical Made It Having Fun High School Musical Disney Channel

Author:Ashley Tisdale

“My dad was a big card player.”

Bigs Player Dad My Dad Cards

Author:Vince Vaughn

“I'm not big on looking back beyond the moment in which decisions and events occur. I'm always pushing forward.”

Moments Bigs Decision Events Pushing Looking Back Pushing Forward

Author:David Stern

“I really love `Serenity.' I'm really proud of it and excited to see it my guys on the big screen, bringing something new to it. But `Firefly' was a different animal, something I will regret losing until the day they put me in a box, because I did have a lot of good stories I wanted to tell.”

Different Stories Bigs Wanted Guy Animal Regret Proud Losing Boxes Excited Screens Something New Serenity Good Story Firefly Big Screen Different Animals

Author:Joss Whedon

“We deeply regret that some Senators are still willing to do Big Oil?s bidding, and we now turn to the House where the Arctic drilling scheme should be dead on arrival. Americans are clamoring for a clean Congress and a clean energy plan, but sadly they were shortchanged on both today.”

Should Stills Bigs Today Turns House Energy Plans Willing Regret Clean Congress Oil Schemes Senators Arrivals Cleanliness Arctic Clean Energy Bidding Drilling Big Oil

Author:Carl Pope

“I think we've put ourselves in a position that if we can go into the Big East and compete at the level that we aspire to compete at, we'll get out of this what we want.”

Ifs Thinking Want Bigs Levels Position East Aspire

Author:Andy Kennedy

“The primary role of the music industry is to have artists be heard above the rest. It's a big needle in a haystack problem. The Internet has the service and tools to find the needle in a haystack.”

Problem Bigs Artist Roles Heard Industry Internet Tools Primaries Needles Music Industry Needle In A Haystack

Author:Ali Partovi

“I was a bookworm, and very skinny with big, thick glasses. I never went on dates and guys were afraid of me because I was smart. So I got contact lenses, started to dress a little better and tried not to talk about Plato with boys. It worked!”

Littles Bigs Guy Boys Smart Dresses Glasses Contact Thick Plato Lenses Skinny Bookworms Contact Lenses

Author:Julianne Moore

“I think people are intimidated by grilling .. maybe it's the flame, maybe it's the big grills, maybe they've had some bad childhood experiences .. but I think that grilling is actually the easiest technique in cooking.”

People Thinking Bigs Childhood Cooking Technique Flames Intimidated Grilling

Author:Bobby Flay

“I think it's really important to give yourself a very big question that you're working on that you can come home to.”

Thinking Giving Important Home Bigs Importance Coming Home Big Questions

Author:Anna Deavere Smith

“No matter how big a house you have or how slick a car you drive, the only thing you can take with you at the end of your life is your conscience.”

Ends Matter Bigs Life Is House Car Conscience Slick

Book:The Monk Who Sold His Ferrari: A Fable About Fulfilling Your Dreams & Reaching Your Destiny

Source: The Monk Who Sold His Ferrari: A Fable About Fulfilling Your Dreams & Reaching Your Destiny

“You will find that [the] State [Department] is the kind of organisation which, though it does big things badly, does small things badly too.”

Kind Doe States Bigs Government Politics Kindness Organization Big Things Small Things

Author:John Kenneth Galbraith

“My big concern is keeping people off the highways today, so that we have no further accidents.”

People Bigs Today Concern Accidents Highways

Author:Jim Hodges

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