Zitat des Tages über Großartige / Great Ones:
And so while the great ones depart to their dinner, the secretary stays, growing thinner and thinner, racking his brain to record and report what he thinks that they think that they ought to have thought.
There are two kinds of writers; the great ones who can give you truths, and the lessor ones, who can only give you themselves.
As I get older, I don't aggressively pursue songs. All the great ones just appear.
Fishes live in the sea, as men do on land: the great ones eat up the little ones.
The sensitivity of men to small matters, and their indifference to great ones, indicates a strange inversion.
Absence diminishes mediocre passions and increases great ones, as the wind extinguishes candles and fans fires.
I'm such an admirer, I am an admirer of villains, especially working with so many great ones.
I'm not going to have a perfect career. It's better to be Billy Wilder and make lots of movies and have five or six great ones than to make so few movies that when you make a bad one it crushes you.
We only acknowledge small faults in order to make it appear that we are free from great ones.
Plain white T-shirts do it for me every time. You can spend anything from £3 to £50 on a T-shirt, but I've bought some great ones from H&M, as well as shelling out on Duffer Of St George and a Polish label I discovered while filming 'Robin Hood' in Hungary called Scotch And Soda.
I usually set aside a lot of time in advance of a movie with important roles for kids to search, but when you have great ones, they can be a real ace in the hole.
When I was a kid, I thought movie stars were women and men who were in these great films that we still look at now. But I don't think there are too many films coming out these days that we're going to look at in the future and say, 'This is one of the great ones.'
Preoccupation with money is the great test of small natures, but only a small test of great ones.
They that apply themselves to trifling matters commonly become incapable of great ones.
Portraits of other great ones look down on you in your college halls; but while you are young and sit at the brief feast, what avails their serene gaze if it do not lift up your hearts and movingly persuade you to match your manhood to its inheritance?
Great teaching - just plain old knock 'em dead, get it right, make 'em laugh, make 'em wonder instruction - is always going to be rare. Good teachers abound. Great ones are special.
I've had great luck with directors. I've worked with all the great ones.
At the end of the day, the great ones - well, they rise, and that's what I want to do.
I love samosas filled with mincemeat. My mum makes really great ones.
Fishes live in the sea, as men do a-land; the great ones eat up the little ones.
You have to be able to adjust on the fly, and that is what the great ones do.
Repetition every day. That's something the great ones do is never get complacent.
