#great

I don't think of my books as being biographies. I never had any interest in doing a book just to write the life of a great man. I had zero interest in that. My interest is in power. How power works. ↗

— Robert Caro

#being #biographies #book #books #doing

I like new ballets because they're totally new. As you get older, new experiences are harder and harder to come by, so it's pretty great to have a new experience. ↗

— Robert Caro

#because #come #experience #experiences #get

I'm such an admirer, I am an admirer of villains, especially working with so many great ones. ↗

— Tom Felton

#am #especially #great #great ones #i

In order to have great happiness you have to have great pain and unhappiness - otherwise how would you know when you're happy? ↗

— Leslie Caron

#great #happy #how #know #order

While the laughter of joy is in full harmony with our deeper life, the laughter of amusement should be kept apart from it. The danger is too great of thus learning to look at solemn things in a spirit of mockery, and to seek in them opportunities for exercising wit. ↗

— Lewis Carroll

#apart #danger #deeper #exercising #full

We don't have the family organization the way we used to. My father lives with us because we have the room. The greatest of all opportunities for our children is a complete family unit. ↗

— Dixie Carter

#children #complete #family #family unit #father

I had a great time in my youth and I still feel youthful. I've no desire to look as though I'm in my 20s. ↗

— Kim Cattrall

#feel #great #great time #had #i

One of the most considerable advantages the great have over their inferiors is to have servants as good as themselves. ↗

— Miguel de Cervantes

#considerable #good #great #inferiors #most

I think if there's a great depression there might be some hope. ↗

— Lawrence Ferlinghetti

#great #great depression #hope #i #i think

I believe my publisher has shown a great deal of faith in me over a lot of years but I'm not prepared to be so arrogant to say that the long-term literary value of my work would compensate them for a financial failure. ↗

— Andrew Vachss

#believe #compensate #deal #failure #faith