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AS GOOD AS IT GETS![]()
Herman Melville was as separated from a civilized literature as the lost Atlantis was said to have b...
EDWARD DAHLBERG Death is not scary enough and not so sweet life of the human foot leaves gentility.
IMAM ALI (AS) Rice Lake has excellent ice. It's one of the few places we can curl in the summers.
COURTNEY GEORGE As far as my notoriety or whatever, I haven't been the star of a hit film.
ALESSANDRO NIVOLA![]()
The first money I have been offered was as District Officer Ba.
KAMISESE MARA And if you can’t shape your life the way you want, at least try as much as you can not to degrade ...
CONSTANTINOS P. CAVAFIS I'm not funny. Never have been and, as far as I can tell, I never will be.
DAVID DOBKIN I've been as bad an influence on American literature as anyone I can think of.
DASHIELL HAMMETT![]()
As far as Apple goes, it was a different company every few years from the time I joined in 1984.
ALAN KAY ...there’s few on Earth as can cut a man deeper than his childless wife.
CRAIG RUSSELL Two friends . . . there are stronger forces on earth, perhaps, but few as tenacious and enduring as ...
STEPHEN R. LAWHEAD The success of the arts has come through a mix of public subsidy, substantial private support, and g...
MELVYN BRAGG In music, the Specials brought a city, Coventry, bombed out for a second time and riven with racism,...
MELVYN BRAGG I don't go around thinking I'm attractive or not attractive. It has never occurred to me. Pe...
MELVYN BRAGG The theatre always seems to be in trouble but always thriving. It's deeply comical to me that we...
MELVYN BRAGG Too old at 72? Careful. Ageism is out. We'll have the law on you!
MELVYN BRAGG We listened to a lot of drama, adaptations of books, comedy. There was a real love of music expresse...
MELVYN BRAGG I don't want closure, I don't know what that means or why you would want it.
MELVYN BRAGG The class barricades have been stormed by the forces of a broad culture, which is made up of cluster...
MELVYN BRAGG I'll never forget my interview with Barry Humphries - one of the oddest I've ever done. He i...
MELVYN BRAGG I just got fed up with the Protestantism that I'd been brought up with being rubbed out, disrega...
MELVYN BRAGG It is very difficult for middle-aged, institutionalised males who have done so well out of subsidy -...
MELVYN BRAGG I'm going to try and make you take the Beatles and Eric Clapton as seriously as the Berlin Philh...
MELVYN BRAGG We got a copy of the 'New Statesman' at my grammar school in Wigton, Cumbria, in the 1950s. ...
MELVYN BRAGG Dame Barbara Cartland was an endearing eccentric, and when I interviewed her, she wanted me to liste...
MELVYN BRAGG Now, perfectly ordinary people will give each other hugs. I mean, it used to be that a hug was reser...
MELVYN BRAGG In 1997, the Labour government set out to strengthen funding for the arts - and achieved it.
MELVYN BRAGG It is impossible to get enough books, don't you find? But where are we without them? Just words on t...
MELVYN BRAGG As the 20th century unspooled, a cultural warming melted down many frozen class characteristics.
MELVYN BRAGG Is it rather stupid and dangerous to take Magna Carta so much for granted, as many of us seem to do,...
MELVYN BRAGG Magna Carta has 63 clauses in abbreviated Latin. Two of them that are still on the statute book, num...
MELVYN BRAGG Magna Carta has become totemic. It is in the comedy of Tony Hancock, in the poetry of Kipling, never...
MELVYN BRAGG I'm not a fan of the working class being mocked, including by some of our famous writers - even ...
MELVYN BRAGG Once, the arts were opera, ballet, classical music, and everything else deemed highbrow.
MELVYN BRAGG I don't get nervous when I'm interviewing someone on film - it can be cut, and we can do it ...
MELVYN BRAGG Like university science departments, the arts have shown how they can earn their way and point to an...
MELVYN BRAGG I'm a class mongrel.
MELVYN BRAGG The arts stimulate imagination. They provoke thought. And then, having done that, all sorts of other...
MELVYN BRAGG More people go to Tate Modern than watch the Arsenal.
MELVYN BRAGG I have written favourably in support of subsidy for the arts since the 1960s, and I continue to beli...
MELVYN BRAGG The BBC does a sterling job, but I'd like to see it do more. ITV does four arts programmes a yea...
MELVYN BRAGG I've been in this business my whole life. I'm pretty bulletproof as far as being hurt.
TINA YOTHERS As far as we are concerned, we Syria have not changed.
BASHAR AL-ASSAD As far as the style, I was fascinated by surrealism.
MARK MOTHERSBAUGH As far as I know, I have no pride of opinion.
ALBERT J. NOCK Nothing trumps honesty, as far as I'm concerned.
DAVID KOECHNER Pools of open water have been freezing over the past few days, resulting in portions of the lake tha...
LISA SHARKEY Silently, as was our habit, Nathan and I walked to the end of Old Grove Road where a lake was dug in...
HOLLOW RYAN James Finch is exactly what I'm looking for, as far as getting back into the race car to have fu...
KURT BUSCH They've got kids who are as big as anybody. They may not have people at the skill level as Inland La...
FRED DAVIS![]()
As a former English major, I have always been fascinated by the connections between literature and h...
NATHANIEL PHILBRICK I hate to say it, but there seems to have been some sort of dumbing down as far as movies go.
SAM NEILL I think I have been very lucky as far as my acting career goes.
NATASHA HENSTRIDGE![]()
As far as humor goes, I've always been a very insecure person and I've always wanted to be l...
PETER STEELE![]()
As far as I'm concerned, there is no subject that's off the table.
GARRY TRUDEAU As far as festivals, nothing tops Cannes.
SASHA LANE![]()
A BMW can't take you as far as a diploma.
JOYCE MEYER![]()
Reach for it. Push yourself as far as you can.
CHRISTA MCAULIFFE Television's going, as far as I'm concerned, downhill, and I'm an anachronism.
DICK VAN DYKE![]()
Wearing corsets all the time was completely incapacitating, as far as digestion goes.
HELENA BONHAM CARTER![]()
As far as the customer is concerned, the interface is the product.
JEF RASKIN As far as music, Louis Armstrong is one of my heroes.
JON BATISTE![]()
As far as natural ability, I was always athletic.
TROY BROWN![]()
That my philosophy of life is, as far as possible, one of enjoyment. I'm not nihilistic.
ALEXANDER MCCALL SMITH Fame was not at all what it was cracked up to be, as far as I was concerned.
DAVE MADDEN So far, every district match we've played in has been a great match. That's our district for you. As...
DIANE DAVEY In Cloud computing the difference between a dark cloud and a cloud with a silver lining, is the part...
RAJAT MOHAN We must strive to let go our life as we planned,so as to have life we are destined for & that comes ...
DR ANIL KUMAR SINHA The surrounding nature is the best erudite master to teach us the basics of living.
ANUJ SOMANY Success is not a journey, it's a destination called satisfaction.
ANUJ SOMANY We are just north of the Theater District, just east of the Galleria. We are only a few blocks from ...
JANE CAMPBELL![]()
The places I've been, or passed through, or seen at a distance, have had as much an impact on my...
BRYAN LEE O'MALLEY![]()
But then all that died down and as far as casting was concerned it didn't really matter that I h...
TAYE DIGGS When people first meet me, they're always like, 'What are you?' as far as ethnicity. And...
MALESE JOW![]()
Dance as though no one is watching you. Love as though you have never been hurt before. Sing as thou...
NEIL GAIMAN We have had a couple kids step up in the absence. Leon's been out for nine to 10 days, but as we get...
LEE SANDY![]()
In science, address the few, in literature, the many. In science, the few must dictate opinion to th...
EDWARD G. BULWER-LYTTON![]()
As far as working out, I know exactly what I'm doing.
EVANDER HOLYFIELD As far as groupies, I never saw any of them.
DAVY JONES As far as my relationship with President Putin is concerned, it's fine.
GERHARD SCHRODER "Dance as though no one is watching you, Love as though you have never been hurt before, Sing as ...
NELINA JUNE ORBE RILLOMA Long distance calls have been abolished as of 2013, and with today's technology, call anywhere in th...
ALI BABAR There are no problems that exist in the District that have been solved elsewhere in the country. Wha...
CHAKA FATTAH As long as it resides in my lake, I have to keep the lakeshore cordoned off,
JANICE HAHN A manufacturing district . . . sends out, as it were, suckers into all its neighborhood.
HENRY HALLAM It's a great confidence boost. It helps us as we go into the district playoffs.
CORY NEAL![]()
Envy, as distasteful as it is, has seeped into my mind on rare occasions, and those I've envied, alt...
DONNA LYNN HOPE These seniors have been in three district finals. We're as prepared as we can be (for the title game...
JOE SHOEMAKER The hardest thing is the idea. Ideas come from somewhere but as far as we know they come from nowher...
IAN HUNTER Quite a few people have done it. There have been just general guests, as well as celebrities request...
BRYAN EDWARDS Our inner-city neighborhoods have been written off as places of great risks, but they are also place...
PHIL ANGELIDES![]()
She could have had a life as potent and dangerous as literature itself.
MICHAEL CUNNINGHAM![]()
They have been working with our district for the past two years informing and helping our students o...
FRANK MURPHY As far as sustaining our popularity, I believe we can.
VINCE MCMAHON![]()
In Paris, you're as far as possible from the land of pleasant smiles.
KANYE WEST As far as my journal, I want to share tour life with my fans.
NATALIE GULBIS![]()
We've actually eliminated Type II polio in the world, at least as far as we can tell.
SETH BERKLEY![]()
Everyone imposes his own system as far as his army can reach.
JOSEPH STALIN![]()
As far as I'm concerned, I prefer silent vice to ostentatious virtue.
ALBERT EINSTEIN
AS GOOD AS IT GETS
Herman Melville was as separated from a civilized literature as the lost Atlantis was said to have b... EDWARD DAHLBERG Death is not scary enough and not so sweet life of the human foot leaves gentility.
IMAM ALI (AS) Rice Lake has excellent ice. It's one of the few places we can curl in the summers.
COURTNEY GEORGE As far as my notoriety or whatever, I haven't been the star of a hit film.
ALESSANDRO NIVOLA
The first money I have been offered was as District Officer Ba. KAMISESE MARA And if you can’t shape your life the way you want, at least try as much as you can not to degrade ...
CONSTANTINOS P. CAVAFIS I'm not funny. Never have been and, as far as I can tell, I never will be.
DAVID DOBKIN I've been as bad an influence on American literature as anyone I can think of.
DASHIELL HAMMETT
As far as Apple goes, it was a different company every few years from the time I joined in 1984. ALAN KAY ...there’s few on Earth as can cut a man deeper than his childless wife.
CRAIG RUSSELL Two friends . . . there are stronger forces on earth, perhaps, but few as tenacious and enduring as ...
STEPHEN R. LAWHEAD The success of the arts has come through a mix of public subsidy, substantial private support, and g...
MELVYN BRAGG In music, the Specials brought a city, Coventry, bombed out for a second time and riven with racism,...
MELVYN BRAGG I don't go around thinking I'm attractive or not attractive. It has never occurred to me. Pe...
MELVYN BRAGG The theatre always seems to be in trouble but always thriving. It's deeply comical to me that we...
MELVYN BRAGG Too old at 72? Careful. Ageism is out. We'll have the law on you!
MELVYN BRAGG We listened to a lot of drama, adaptations of books, comedy. There was a real love of music expresse...
MELVYN BRAGG I don't want closure, I don't know what that means or why you would want it.
MELVYN BRAGG The class barricades have been stormed by the forces of a broad culture, which is made up of cluster...
MELVYN BRAGG I'll never forget my interview with Barry Humphries - one of the oddest I've ever done. He i...
MELVYN BRAGG I just got fed up with the Protestantism that I'd been brought up with being rubbed out, disrega...
MELVYN BRAGG It is very difficult for middle-aged, institutionalised males who have done so well out of subsidy -...
MELVYN BRAGG I'm going to try and make you take the Beatles and Eric Clapton as seriously as the Berlin Philh...
MELVYN BRAGG We got a copy of the 'New Statesman' at my grammar school in Wigton, Cumbria, in the 1950s. ...
MELVYN BRAGG Dame Barbara Cartland was an endearing eccentric, and when I interviewed her, she wanted me to liste...
MELVYN BRAGG Now, perfectly ordinary people will give each other hugs. I mean, it used to be that a hug was reser...
MELVYN BRAGG In 1997, the Labour government set out to strengthen funding for the arts - and achieved it.
MELVYN BRAGG It is impossible to get enough books, don't you find? But where are we without them? Just words on t...
MELVYN BRAGG As the 20th century unspooled, a cultural warming melted down many frozen class characteristics.
MELVYN BRAGG Is it rather stupid and dangerous to take Magna Carta so much for granted, as many of us seem to do,...
MELVYN BRAGG Magna Carta has 63 clauses in abbreviated Latin. Two of them that are still on the statute book, num...
MELVYN BRAGG Magna Carta has become totemic. It is in the comedy of Tony Hancock, in the poetry of Kipling, never...
MELVYN BRAGG I'm not a fan of the working class being mocked, including by some of our famous writers - even ...
MELVYN BRAGG Once, the arts were opera, ballet, classical music, and everything else deemed highbrow.
MELVYN BRAGG I don't get nervous when I'm interviewing someone on film - it can be cut, and we can do it ...
MELVYN BRAGG Like university science departments, the arts have shown how they can earn their way and point to an...
MELVYN BRAGG I'm a class mongrel.
MELVYN BRAGG The arts stimulate imagination. They provoke thought. And then, having done that, all sorts of other...
MELVYN BRAGG More people go to Tate Modern than watch the Arsenal.
MELVYN BRAGG I have written favourably in support of subsidy for the arts since the 1960s, and I continue to beli...
MELVYN BRAGG The BBC does a sterling job, but I'd like to see it do more. ITV does four arts programmes a yea...
MELVYN BRAGG I've been in this business my whole life. I'm pretty bulletproof as far as being hurt.
TINA YOTHERS As far as we are concerned, we Syria have not changed.
BASHAR AL-ASSAD As far as the style, I was fascinated by surrealism.
MARK MOTHERSBAUGH As far as I know, I have no pride of opinion.
ALBERT J. NOCK Nothing trumps honesty, as far as I'm concerned.
DAVID KOECHNER Pools of open water have been freezing over the past few days, resulting in portions of the lake tha...
LISA SHARKEY Silently, as was our habit, Nathan and I walked to the end of Old Grove Road where a lake was dug in...
HOLLOW RYAN James Finch is exactly what I'm looking for, as far as getting back into the race car to have fu...
KURT BUSCH They've got kids who are as big as anybody. They may not have people at the skill level as Inland La...
FRED DAVIS
As a former English major, I have always been fascinated by the connections between literature and h... NATHANIEL PHILBRICK I hate to say it, but there seems to have been some sort of dumbing down as far as movies go.
SAM NEILL I think I have been very lucky as far as my acting career goes.
NATASHA HENSTRIDGE
As far as humor goes, I've always been a very insecure person and I've always wanted to be l... PETER STEELE
As far as I'm concerned, there is no subject that's off the table. GARRY TRUDEAU As far as festivals, nothing tops Cannes.
SASHA LANE
A BMW can't take you as far as a diploma. JOYCE MEYER
Reach for it. Push yourself as far as you can. CHRISTA MCAULIFFE Television's going, as far as I'm concerned, downhill, and I'm an anachronism.
DICK VAN DYKE
Wearing corsets all the time was completely incapacitating, as far as digestion goes. HELENA BONHAM CARTER
As far as the customer is concerned, the interface is the product. JEF RASKIN As far as music, Louis Armstrong is one of my heroes.
JON BATISTE
As far as natural ability, I was always athletic. TROY BROWN
That my philosophy of life is, as far as possible, one of enjoyment. I'm not nihilistic. ALEXANDER MCCALL SMITH Fame was not at all what it was cracked up to be, as far as I was concerned.
DAVE MADDEN So far, every district match we've played in has been a great match. That's our district for you. As...
DIANE DAVEY In Cloud computing the difference between a dark cloud and a cloud with a silver lining, is the part...
RAJAT MOHAN We must strive to let go our life as we planned,so as to have life we are destined for & that comes ...
DR ANIL KUMAR SINHA The surrounding nature is the best erudite master to teach us the basics of living.
ANUJ SOMANY Success is not a journey, it's a destination called satisfaction.
ANUJ SOMANY We are just north of the Theater District, just east of the Galleria. We are only a few blocks from ...
JANE CAMPBELL
The places I've been, or passed through, or seen at a distance, have had as much an impact on my... BRYAN LEE O'MALLEY
But then all that died down and as far as casting was concerned it didn't really matter that I h... TAYE DIGGS When people first meet me, they're always like, 'What are you?' as far as ethnicity. And...
MALESE JOW
Dance as though no one is watching you. Love as though you have never been hurt before. Sing as thou... NEIL GAIMAN We have had a couple kids step up in the absence. Leon's been out for nine to 10 days, but as we get...
LEE SANDY
In science, address the few, in literature, the many. In science, the few must dictate opinion to th... EDWARD G. BULWER-LYTTON
As far as working out, I know exactly what I'm doing. EVANDER HOLYFIELD As far as groupies, I never saw any of them.
DAVY JONES As far as my relationship with President Putin is concerned, it's fine.
GERHARD SCHRODER "Dance as though no one is watching you, Love as though you have never been hurt before, Sing as ...
NELINA JUNE ORBE RILLOMA Long distance calls have been abolished as of 2013, and with today's technology, call anywhere in th...
ALI BABAR There are no problems that exist in the District that have been solved elsewhere in the country. Wha...
CHAKA FATTAH As long as it resides in my lake, I have to keep the lakeshore cordoned off,
JANICE HAHN A manufacturing district . . . sends out, as it were, suckers into all its neighborhood.
HENRY HALLAM It's a great confidence boost. It helps us as we go into the district playoffs.
CORY NEAL
Envy, as distasteful as it is, has seeped into my mind on rare occasions, and those I've envied, alt... DONNA LYNN HOPE These seniors have been in three district finals. We're as prepared as we can be (for the title game...
JOE SHOEMAKER The hardest thing is the idea. Ideas come from somewhere but as far as we know they come from nowher...
IAN HUNTER Quite a few people have done it. There have been just general guests, as well as celebrities request...
BRYAN EDWARDS Our inner-city neighborhoods have been written off as places of great risks, but they are also place...
PHIL ANGELIDES
She could have had a life as potent and dangerous as literature itself. MICHAEL CUNNINGHAM
They have been working with our district for the past two years informing and helping our students o... FRANK MURPHY As far as sustaining our popularity, I believe we can.
VINCE MCMAHON
In Paris, you're as far as possible from the land of pleasant smiles. KANYE WEST As far as my journal, I want to share tour life with my fans.
NATALIE GULBIS
We've actually eliminated Type II polio in the world, at least as far as we can tell. SETH BERKLEY
Everyone imposes his own system as far as his army can reach. JOSEPH STALIN
As far as I'm concerned, I prefer silent vice to ostentatious virtue. ALBERT EINSTEIN
The twentieth century French dramatist Jean Anouilh wrote a play about Beckett which was made into a... 
Every life deserves a certain amount of dignity, no matter how poor or damaged the shell that carrie... 
I have dictated stories from an airport after writing the story out in longhand on the plane that I ... 
The only thing poverty does is grind down your nerve endings to a point that you can work harder and... 
The important thing in science is not so much to obtain new facts as to discover new ways of thinki... 
God runs electromagnetics by wave theory on Monday, Wednesday, and Friday, and the Devil runs them b... 