It is a great thing about having young children, is that they don’t really care whether you’re the chief justice or whatever, and they do make sure that you have a good perspective on life and what’s important.
I think that’s the great thing about acting: you get to play different characters and enhance one part of yourself to really bring that out and create a new person.
I wasn’t that great in sports. I started doing children’s theater and loved it. I thought I had a great thing going with musicals. I thought, ‘I can do this. It’s fun.’ I wanted to go for it, and I thought I’d like to make a living doing this.
I think that’s the great thing, ya’ know, that women can do anything that they want now.
What works about fairy tales is that they endure, and the great thing about fairy tales is that you can explore big, epic things that you can’t really explore in other situations.
The great thing about being a broadcaster is you have this incredible responsibility to the people that make it all happen, the people that turn on the television set.
The great thing about doing a series about the Broadway community is that the possibilities are endless.
The great thing about being a writer is that you have a long, perhaps frighteningly long time in which to do your work.
When I was younger, I wanted to be tall and skinny. And because I wasn’t, I was disappointed. The great thing about getting older is that I’ve come to accept my shape – and embrace it.
The great thing about Roald Dahl is he tackled the big questions of life without any fear of being shocking or brutal, because he knew the kids could take it.
The great thing about modern feminism is that women can define what it means to them: it can mean being ambitious, it can mean being emotional, it can mean being sensitive and compassionate and also a leader. It can mean all those things.
That’s the great thing about G.I. Joe: it’s essentially superheroes, but it’s military based – and it’s based in reality.
That’s free enterprise, friends: freedom to gamble, freedom to lose. And the great thing – the truly democratic thing about it – is that you don’t even have to be a player to lose.
The great thing about Gospel is that you don’t have to have an album every year in order to keep working.
I used to think that the great thing about sculpture was that, like Stonehenge, it was something that stood against time in an adamantine way, and was an absolute mass in space. Now I try to use the language of architecture to redescribe the body as a place.
The great thing about being a print journalist is that you are permitted to duck. Cameramen get killed while the writers are flat on the floor. A war correspondent for the BBC dedicated his memoir to 50 fallen colleagues, and I guarantee you they were all taking pictures. I am only alive because I am such a chicken.
Getting all dressed up and putting on fancy clothes – all of that’s a great thing, but oddly, it doesn’t really have a lot to do with acting most of the time.
There’s no such thing as too much. If there’s too much, then that’s a great thing.
For comedy reasons, any place we can have really big egos and very high stakes is a great thing to go for.
The great thing about being a musician today is that you can explore your creativity in multiple ways without compromising your primary focus.
I think the great thing about grandparents is seeing another home, realising that people you love can have different priorities, different diversions, different opinions and lead quite different lives from the ones you see every day, and that is immensely valuable.
It’s a great thing when you can show that you’ve been successful and that you’ve made a lot of money and that you’ve employed a lot of people.
Acting’s not particularly complicated. But the great thing is you can step into somebody else’s shoes without dealing with the consequences. It’s very therapeutic in that way.
The great thing about computer animation is that all of those environments exist as three-dimensional worlds, so these VR worlds already exist.
A UK-Australia trade deal won’t just be a good thing, it’ll be a great thing, for our businesses, for our consumers, for our workers and for our two great countries.
I jokingly say if there was one great thing about, you know, the Lebanese Civil War was that it forced me to read.
The great thing about working with NPR – and, really, there’s like a million of ’em – is all the cool stuff I get to do for the public. Meet the president. Hang out at the National Finals Rodeo in Vegas. Drink a $10,000 martini.
Number one is a great thing, and I’ll always know that I’m number one, but 44 is my favourite number, so I want to keep it on the car.
I really like the mission at SurveyMonkey, which is, we help people make better decisions. It’s just a great thing.
The great thing about football is that it’s so fast, there are so few interruptions.
That’s the great thing about being an all-rounder. You can impose yourself on the game with bat and ball.
To be filled with God is a great thing, to be filled with the fullness of God is still greater; to be filled with all the fullness of God is greatest of all.
I’ve enjoyed all of the roles I have played for different reasons, which is the great thing about acting. You love different projects for different reasons.
What great thing would you attempt if you knew you could not fail?
I think that’s the great thing about interiors is that they can be treated like a great wardrobe. Choose a sofa and chairs that are staples in clean shapes that will keep for the next couple of years or decade. Then an easy way to bump up your entire room or your interiors is accessories.
To stay in one time zone and play in a great conference – a great all-around conference, but, specifically, a great basketball conference – is a great thing.
The great thing about ‘Allen Gregory’ is that we try to make it really questionable that the things he says have happened, have really happened. We like that ambiguity.
The great thing about the ‘Fast and Furious’ world is everything is up for speculation. Yes, anything is a possibility.
The great thing about the business is how Darwinian it is. We have to swim or die – if you are found wanting over a period of time, you’ve either got to change what you’re doing or find something else to do.
The great thing about fiscal policy is that it has a direct impact and doesn’t require you to bind the hands of future policymakers.
The great thing about this town hall format is that it allows us to hear what’s on the minds of Americans. Tonight, it was clear – voters have quite a few questions about the direction in which the current administration is headed.
The great thing about musicals is that they transcend race.
You know what, I’m happy to say that everything outside of ‘Dexter’ feels like a vacation, and I don’t mean to say anything negative about the show. It’s just a different kind of work. Emotionally it’s taxing and complicated, and that’s a great thing.
I made my money the old-fashioned way; I inherited it. I think that’s a great thing to do.
Being called a conscious rapper is quite a compliment. It’s a great thing to be. But as an artist, my nature is to not be in a box.
The great thing about freshwater fish is most of them are incredibly ugly, a lot of them are, so no one can fail to look good next to some of these things.
Now, of course, the great thing about the solar system as a frontier is that there are no Indians, so you can have all the glory of the myth of the American westward expansion without any of the guilt.
The great thing about writing compared to life is getting to tie things up.
That’s the great thing about being an actor, you get to try out lots of things for your roles.
The great thing about a short story is that it doesn’t have to trawl through someone’s whole life; it can come in glancingly from the side.
The great thing about a record is it frees your imagination; it gives your eyes a rest and lets your mind wander. There’s the special thing that each record can mean a different thing to every person listening to it.
It’s a great thing if you’re a creative person and have some kind of acting or dance or singing, any art. I think it’s great to be around people who support that and who are into it like you are, and you can have one big family and teachers who know what they’re doing.
I think the great thing about a television set is that it can be turned on and off, and you don’t have to watch it if you think it’s going to be something that you’re not going to like or learn from.
Your body thinks radium is a great thing to pack into bone – where it kills some cells outright and scrambles the DNA of others, causing problems like cancer.
I think the great thing about religion is it’s there to teach us the good path and that we’re all equal, that we should be treated as such.
The great thing about being a writer is that you are always recreating yourself.
I always thought of indie-rock as being rock music by bands that were on independent labels, and that’s a great thing.
The great thing is that the funny side of getting old is fuel for my comedy.
Democracy can tie your hands in a rock ‘n’ roll band, you know? It can be a great thing, but if you’ve got a certain amount of vision and you write a lot of songs, it’s sometimes better to have your own band and make your own decisions.
