Best Wonderful Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“Hollywood is great for entertaining people, it's a wonderful business but it's make-believe, you must remember that. That's one of the most important things to remember and the distinction in your own life, otherwise people get lost in their own fame, and it makes them unhappy.”

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Author:Dolph Lundgren

“I want to live a good life and pay my taxes. 'The Killing' was a blessing. It was two wonderful years. But I had reached a point in my life, especially with a young son, that I was no longer willing to compromise my life for the sake of a paycheque. I was no longer willing to move where the tax credits are strong.”

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Author:Kristin Lehman

“There are several insights at the heart of the A’s system that I think are wonderful for baseball. One, that it’s a team game. That no one player is going to make that much of a difference to your team, so for god’s sake don’t go blow a quarter of your budget on one guy.”

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Author:Michael Lewis

“It's a wonderful way to have a role on a series - you're not tied down totally and completely to a schedule.”

Way Roles Wonderful Series Tied Schedules

Author:Lee Meriwether

“Television is what made It's a Wonderful Life the classic it is today.”

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Author:Leonard Maltin

“Roger Clemens is one of the most wonderful men I've ever known. I loved him very much... still love him to this day. He treated me like a princess.”

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Author:Mindy McCready

“It's really wonderful to be able to be nobody, and then have a moment when I can be somebody, and then go right back to being nobody again.”

I Can Moments Able Wonderful

Author:Natalie Merchant

“I can't say I was unhappy as a child actor in films. I had a particularly wonderful time.”

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Author:Roddy McDowall

“There is a duality in recognising what an incredible disease it is - in terms of its origin, that it emerges out of a normal cell. It's a reminder of what a wonderful thing a normal cell is. In a very cold, scientific sense, I think a cancer cell is a kind of biological marvel.”

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Author:Siddhartha Mukherjee

“I'm not perfect, but what's wonderful about eating a plant-based diet is, I don't have to be.”

Perfect Wonderful Eating Plant Diets Not Perfect I'm Not Perfect Plant Based Diet

Author:Victoria Moran

“My home in Dallas is wonderful. I can walk everywhere. It's a pretty good hidden secret, Dallas. There are wonderful restaurants and a wonderful nightlife. It's just a beautiful city to be in.”

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Author:Jodi Lyn O'Keefe

“To play a role where you get to reveal intellectual change is wonderful.”

Play Roles Wonderful Intellectual

Author:Richard O'Brien

“Being taken seriously, for a young writer, is a wonderful form of encouragement, but at the same time, I don't think one should ever feel like attempting a kind of artistic endeavor is beyond your scope just because of age or inexperience.”

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Author:Tea Obreht

“Every decade of my life I attempted to write a novel. But I had nothing to say. I was far too self-absorbed, and now I realize I was writing for others, so that they'd applaud me, see my genius, tell me how wonderful I am, or be jealous of my success.”

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Author:Louise Penny

“As for myself, the wonderful sea charmed me from the first.”

Firsts Wonderful Sea Ships Charmed

Book:The Voyages of Joshua Slocum

Source: The Voyages of Joshua Slocum

“I felt like if any two people had any kind of sexual affinity for each other they had to sleep with each other immediately, otherwise it was a terrible betrayal and waste...Fortunately, I'm relieved of those obsessions now. It's really wonderful. It's really wonderful not feeling you have to sleep with everybody.”

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Author:Leonard Cohen

“Wouldn't it be wonderful to have a cure for AIDS in the marketplace before Magic Johnson gets AIDS?”

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Author:Dan Quayle

“I was looking for the people who were making the music inside the cabinet. I would look in there and see if I could find somebody who was making all this wonderful music.”

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Author:Abbey Lincoln

“If I did not have my wife, I wouldn't be married, I wouldn't have the life that I have and I wouldn't have my wonderful baby boy who's not a baby anymore - he's going to be eight-years-old.”

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Author:Brian Littrell

“I think New York is a really wonderful place to raise a child. There's so much available, and so much diversity and culture, lots of things to see and do. My whole family is here.”

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Author:Ana Ortiz

“Danity Kane' was a wonderful group, and like all things, nothing is forever. We had a great run and we were very successful.”

Running Forever Successful Wonderful Groups All Things

Author:Aubrey O'Day

“I prefer theater, but I love to do films, and I prefer theater primarily because I've done more. I know less about movies. You can't lie in either medium. The wonderful thing is that the camera, just like an audience, is made out of skin - because celluloid is skin.”

Knows Made Done Film Lying Audience Wonderful Skins Theater Cameras Mediums Wonderful Things Celluloid

Author:Amanda Plummer

“I find historical figures in general very tricky because you feel at times that you're serving two masters. Not only the arc and wonderful writing that comes with the show, but also the history of a person's life.”

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Author:Vincent Piazza

“Sometimes you get from the mouth of kids wonderful things.”

Sometimes Kids Wonderful Mouths Wonderful Things

Author:Itzhak Perlman

“My choices in projects have all been character or role-based, and on a financial level, it's obvious: as an actor on a TV series, I get a wonderful paycheck, and a consistent paycheck, which doesn't always happen when you're doing theater or movies.”

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Author:Jim Parsons

“It's wonderful to work with someone with mentor status.”

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Author:Madeleine Peyroux

“It means a lot in my business and its a wonderful feeling to be recognized for what you have done over a lifetime, but I didn't go crazy. I still eat my cereal in the morning, have a sandwich in the afternoon, go to bed at night. You know, nothing really different.”

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Author:Regis Philbin

“It was really great to also see the response that people were having to 'Treme' 'cause you're in a vacuum when you're on a TV show. You see the response online, you read about it and all of that, but actually to be live and have that many thousands of fans come out, it's really wonderful.”

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Author:Wendell Pierce

“There was a wonderful little short four-year time period when marvelous things happened. It started in 1908, when the Wright brothers flew in Paris, and everybody said, 'Ooh, hey, I can do that.' There's only a few people that have flown in early 1908. In four years, 39 countries had hundreds of airplanes, thousands of pilots.”

“You can take wonderfully talented actors, wonderfully talented writers and producers, and, uh, do a wonderful show!... but if it doesn't hit with the public in two minutes, it's bye-bye.”

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Author:Charlotte Rae

“I think I land somewhere between Scorsese and Capra in what I'm drawn to emotionally; I'm drawn to very intense emotion. Capra freaked people out when they saw Jimmy Stewart lose it in 'It's a Wonderful Life.”

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Author:David O. Russell

“Some of Jimmy Stewart's performance in 'It's A Wonderful Life' is some of the most disturbing performance he ever did, when he falls apart and when he breaks down.”

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Author:David O. Russell

“Eating and food are a wonderful part of our life's experience, and half of us are walking around dreading having to figure out what to put in our mouths.”

Half Our Lives Wonderful Figures Walking Eating Mouths

Author:Gabrielle Reece

“I'm kind of private and I keep things inside a lot, but it's been so wonderful to realize that people care about you in a very deep way and that there is some bond between an actor and his audience. I don't even know how to describe that feeling.”

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Author:Michael J. Fox

“The most overrated ingredients are garlic and extra-virgin olive oil. With garlic, it's personal; I have never been that big of a fan of its flavor. As for extra-virgin olive oil, I do use it quite often but its ubiquity serves to overshadow many wonderful oils like pistachio, walnut, argan and even grapeseed.”

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Author:Lela Rose

“I did have wonderful things to draw from, from my own experience and also just from friends and people I'd gone to school with who were very much immersed in this world right now.”

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Author:Lily Rabe

“I went from elementary school to proper training, operatic training, and I went on to the Motown University and learned a lot of things from some wonderful people.”

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Author:Martha Reeves

“If you think of your life as a kind of computation, it's quite abundantly clear that there's not going to be a final answer and there won't be anything particularly wonderful about having the computation halt!”

Ifs Thinking Kind Answers Clear Wonderful Finals Think Of You Halt Computation

Author:Rudy Rucker

“Money opens up wonderful worlds of possibilities.”

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Author:Sam Raimi

“One hopes, of course, that a relationship grows and becomes a deep and wonderful marriage and friendship that lasts forever. But that's not always the case.”

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Author:Alana Stewart

“Actually, I started to become an actress because I met someone who was just a friend and I found his life wonderful, I thought, Oh my god, you can travel, you're free, you can do what you want, you're the boss. And then I met an actor and I was in love with him.”

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Author:Lea Seydoux

“New York is a wonderful place to be up, an awful place to be down.”

Wonderful New York Awful Wonderful Places

Author:Alexander McCall Smith

“My musical director, Mark Cherry, is the most wonderful person who ever lived on God's good green Earth. He's my director, he does the arrangements. Really, he does everything - including certain janitorial chores!”

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Author:Brett Somers

“Without a doubt my mother was an inspiration for my writing. This is true in many ways, but mostly because she is a wonderful storyteller, without even knowing it.”

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Author:Elizabeth Strout

“There's so many great songs already written, it's kind of really wonderful you don't have to write your own.”

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Author:Katey Sagal

“There is a wonderful continuity of being, the continuous awareness of self, a sense of yourself continuing in time and space.”

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Author:Frederick Lenz

“There is a world of deaf, dumb and blind people out there, who are shuffling through their lives, not knowing how wonderful life can be. They have their moments, but they are very unconscious.”

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Author:Frederick Lenz

“I think I've learned more from women than anyone else, and perhaps from love - what a wonderful testing ground, what a wonderful place to see and sense our limitations, to know that the pain reflects your state of awareness and not being able to hide from it.”

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Author:Frederick Lenz

“The dominant orthodoxy in development economics was that Third World countries were trapped in a vicious cycle of poverty that could be broken only by massive foreign aid from the more prosperous industrial nations of the world. This was in keeping with a more general vision on the Left that people were essentially divided into three categories - the heartless, the helpless, and wonderful people like themselves, who would rescue the helpless by playing Lady Bountiful with the taxpayers' money.”

Source: Ever Wonder Why?: and Other Controversial Essays

“The best thing about writing fiction is that moment where the story catches fire and comes to life on the page, and suddenly it all makes sense and you know what it's about and why you're doing it and what these people are saying and doing, and you get to feel like both the creator and the audience. Everything is suddenly both obvious and surprising ("but of course that's why he was doing that, and that means that...") and it's magic and wonderful and strange.”

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