It annoys me a great deal when people accuse me of not having any ambition because I’ve stayed at Southampton all these years. You can’t get more ambitious than to aim to play for England, can you?
I think we have a great deal of mythology around writing. We believe that only a few people can really do it. I wrote a book called ‘The Right to Write.’ In it, I argued that all of us have the capacity to write. That it’s as normal to write as it is to speak.
When I was very young in London, I had a bank account, which didn’t have a great deal in it. I should think at least every three months the bank manager would call me up and threaten to strangle me because I had no money, and I was writing checks.
I have a great deal of respect for myself as a musician and a writer, even if I’m not doing it anymore.
The early part of my career was the 1990s, and I was living in New York working as an actor. It was the world I was in. A lot of companies had a great deal of money.
When I read comics, they were dense stories. When you put them down, there was a sense of having gotten a great deal from them.
There’s no question that any of us who are doing an honest job in government could do a lot better in private industry. During the years I was practicing law as an individual, my salary was a great deal more than it is now.
I’m a painfully slow reader. And to this day, I mean, I love reading, and I’m very careful – very selective about what I read because I don’t read very fast and, therefore, not a great deal.
Everyone has different issues, and I think for a great deal of women, those issues are self-esteem. And for me, I really wanted to understand it and get through it because I didn’t want to be an actress afraid of getting older. I refuse to live that way.
Wall climbing is an offshoot of the more traditional sport of mountain climbing. It is very difficult; one must combine a great deal of stamina with the ability of a world-class gymnast.
There are many members of parliament present here who know as well as I do that, if a man has not already been converted, it will require a great deal more than a letter of appeal to achieve conversion.
The sound of a kiss is not so loud as that of a cannon, but its echo lasts a great deal longer.
It takes a great deal of strength to be an optimist.
A great deal of stupidity has chipped away at the massive advantages of Western civilization, which could terminally decline if it remains on the current path. But these problems can be solved – and swiftly – if the right leaders emerge.
People in the U.S. pay a great deal of money to support their judiciary, and they have an actual right to see how it functions.
Not a great deal is known about the factors in childhood that doubtless underlie a person’s choice of career – I’m talking now about a career to which one is passionately committed, in contradistinction to a career chosen merely as a means of earning a living.
There is a great deal of unmapped country within us which would have to be taken into account in an explanation of our gusts and storms.
Men can be a great deal of work for very little reward.
The salesman knows nothing of what he is selling save that he is charging a great deal too much for it.
I spend a great deal of time with the President. We have a very close, personal, loyal relationship. I’m not, as they say, a potted plant in these meetings.
I had friends but I was spending a great deal of my time alone and for me that was vital because there’s an awful lot you learn about yourself when you’re alone.
‘Ghost City’ began as a idea. I felt that I hadn’t read or heard a great deal about the sort of life that I thought I had, and I just thought that it would be interesting to sit down and see if I could put it down onto paper.
‘Alice’ took over two years to make and took a great deal of planning, obviously much more than usual. We spent so much more time prepping the film, and that was unique for us.
Nintendo has paid a great deal of attention to the dynamic of people playing video games together in the same room.
What you want to watch are the lenders, not the borrowers. The borrowers will always be willing to take a great deal for themselves. It’s up to the lenders to show restraint, and when they lose it, watch out.
Imagination has a great deal to do with winning.
Of course, I love the arenas; there’s a great deal of energy and excitement playing those kind of shows. But there’s something that’s very intimate and very special about a small venue, where you really feel like you’re almost getting to know everyone in the audience.
Slang has different functions: many of the words we use are playful and a lot are tribal – we speak the same way as the groups we are part of. A great deal are also euphemistic, so it’s no surprise that a third of us are perplexed by their meanings and origins.
When you are starting to run an online business, you need to narrow down a niche market and be able to stick with it until you have a good profit coming in. This can take a while, so you need to have a great deal of patience to make sure that your business is moving in the right direction.
I talk a great deal to prior Secretaries of State about policy issues.
I’ve experienced a great deal of, you know, ostracism from the making of films.
I have a great deal of respect and admiration for people who put themselves on the line.
If the experimental physicist has already done a great deal of work in this field, nevertheless the theoretical physicist has still hardly begun to evaluate the experimental material which may lead him to conclusions about the structure of the atom.
I was fortunate to have my business partner of many years – Hemal Thakkar – who helped a great deal in production under our banner, Playtime Creation.
The pen is a formidable weapon, but a man can kill himself with it a great deal more easily than he can other people.
Sometimes, we need an obstacle to challenge us and push us further than we would if things were always status quo. I’d say one example is the market crashing. It’s like, just when we started to get into a rhythm, everything changed! But, it taught us a great deal about how we do business and how we can improve.
I have had a great deal of interaction with Koreans and feel a fairly strong bond with Korea.
I get afraid of the dark if I’m in a great deal of dark, and I have to move around inside of that fear… But there is a chance that something… will talk to me from the dark, so I have… to be prepared for that communication, which has happened.
The push to defund public schools and reroute taxpayer money to charters and private institutions is actually a very clever strategy by the Right Wing, which has always had a great deal of disdain for a system that forces them to pay taxes toward some other kid’s non-religious, science-based education.
I find that I take a great deal of pleasure knowing I get up people’s noses to some degree.
I think we fool ourselves and really negate a great deal of history if we think that the oral history of poetry is shorter than the written history of poetry. It’s not true. Poetry has a longer oral tradition than it does written.
In Korea, when I started, there wasn’t a trend where people chose to be both actors and singers. I was the first to do both. It was a great deal hard work, but I got a lot of support and love from my audience. And for me to receive the same treatment overseas, I felt that I was also very lucky.
