Be Great Quotes

I've been really lucky to work with a lot of really great actors, so watching the films back, it's really important to admire the people that you were working with and see their full performance.

I had always fantasized about going to the Pyramids, the Great Wall; I've always been sort of obsessed with the whole notion of Everest.

Mostly I've just worked with actors and actresses that are fun and easy to talk to and had nothing but great experiences.

During the Renaissance, women were not allowed to attend art school. Everyone asks, where are the great women painters of the Renaissance?

I am telling you that the child will not out live the buildings. Do you understand that wheras women may touch the immortal by giving birth, men--great men-- must build monuments and seek fame?

Why sing music that you get to choose that isn't personal to you? That is the great thing about what I do.

Small businesses want things streamlined, and one of the great successes we're having is less paperwork, faster turnaround times.

Great tragedy gives us opportunities for great kindness.

You're entitled in this country to worship as you please or to not worship. It's one of the great things that defines us as a nation, and it's at the heart of what it is to be in America.

The meanest authors have at least this similarity with the great author of heaven and earth, that they usually say after a completed day of work: "And behold, what he had done was good.

Any good writer is going to be well-received and is going to not be well-received; that's how you know you're a great writer.

Well, I never lived through the Great Depression, sometimes I feel as though I did.

To me the book is like having a kid. I have to let it go out in the world, and great things will happen. Maybe they won't, but it has to keep on moving.

Always remember, with a strong enough will, even the weak can wield great power.

Great writing is great writing. It's as simple as all that.

I think of myself as a mum who finds the time to go to work. I have to check myself for baby sick before I walk out of the house in the morning. I am really a mum I know I am a great mother.

The memoir by women, read by female readers, is considered a market form, not "great literature."

The biographies of the great men see their excesses as signs of their greatness.

I have teenagers, so I listen to a lot of music. They turn me on to great music.

... it is a great mistake to confuse conventionality with simplicity ... it takes a good deal of intelligence and a great many inhibitions to follow a social code.

This is a great mind at work examining itself. This is where literature comes from.

I want to stay in the moment and enjoy the great things that are happening.

I never would rule out a great character or a great story. I don't care what the forum is. If I get to tell a story that I'm excited about, I'm in.

I would love to make a bunch of country demos and write country songs for really great country singers.

I love singing and I think I have a really nice voice, but I don't think I have an unbelievable singing voice. I think I have a great character voice.

You go in thinking you have to do this all by yourself, and what I learned was no, when you hire great people, they do so much for you.

As well as being in love, we're great friends. Warren makes me feel wanted, and that counts a lot with me.

Great opportunity for technology/media companies to meet the movers and shakers in the broadcast and media industries.

She might be a great person, but life's so much bigger than just loving someone.

I am delighted to join Doctor Who and to be working with this incredible team. Ms Delphox is a great character and someone I've had a lot of fun playing.

I think that Paul Ryan could be a great leader for our country. But I think that he is in a moral choice moment, and so far, he's choosing wrong Donald Trump.

Two must-haves for me are a great book and my iPod.

Great men may die, but there ideas won't.

We're being very good team players here and very happy we've got a great working relationship with Reince Priebus and the RNC. They've been spectacular to us.

I fully support Donald Trump and Mike Pence administration. I think they're going to do a lot of great things very quickly.

John Danforth, I thought, was a great senator and did a great job with the United Nations. I think he's a good man. I would respectfully disagree with that.

A visual experience is vitalizing. Whereas to write great poetry, to draw continuously on one's inner life, is not merely exhausting, it is to keep alight a consuming fire.

The great achievement of the Catholic Church lay in harmonizing, civilizing the deepest impulses of ordinary, ignorant people.

I'm just more into playing golf. It's a great thing.

Well, I don't think everything necessarily that I touch turns to gold, but I think I get great joy out of it regardless of whether it is successful or not.

Radio is aimed at the 30-year-old market, so you have to have great music and appeal to get that age group. And you need a record company to believe in you. It's like a bit of the perfect storm.

People who say that they can't appreciate a great wine generally haven't tasted one

I just thought that Adrienne [Shelly] wrote a great character [for Waitress]. It really was all on the page.

My life is great because I made it that way. Anything other than happiness doesn't get a pass key.

At the end of the day it's really easy to be a great leader when things are going well. The real test, whether or not you believe in being an emotionally intelligent leader, is when things go wrong.

Mandela stands alone in possessing all of the qualities of other great men, but has one quality which is transcendent... his ability to forgive and to place others above himself.

One of my great mistakes coming up, since I was a kid from wrong side of the tracks, and fearful that I might be seen as wanting leadership-wise, was to be someone I was not.

If you want to make a great sports movie, don't put too much sports in it. It's the backdrop. It's the environment.

Maine Road was a great football stadium but as time moved on it stayed where it is.

The Old Vic has always been first and foremost an actors theatre, a home for great talent and memorable performances.