#mediocre

Movie directing is a perfect refuge for the mediocre. ↗

— Orson Welles

#mediocre #movie #perfect #refuge

Where radio is different than fiction is that even mediocre fiction needs purpose, a driving question. ↗

— Ira Glass

#driving #even #fiction #mediocre #needs

My record at the University of California as an undergraduate was mediocre to say the best. ↗

— Douglass North

#california #mediocre #record #say #undergraduate

You can have good writing, but a great actor will make it feel and sound like great writing. You can have great writing, and mediocre actors will make it feel mediocre. Without the actors, you have nothing. ↗

— Denis Leary

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No serious-minded man should have time for the mediocre in any phase of his living. ↗

— James Cash Penney

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My mom was a teacher - I have the greatest respect for the profession - we need great teachers - not poor or mediocre ones. ↗

— Condoleezza Rice

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Absence diminishes mediocre passions and increases great ones, as the wind extinguishes candles and fans fires. ↗

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld

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For instance, 'The Sixth Sense' had mediocre to bad reviews. Slowly, the audience pushed it and it received critical attention. ↗

— M. Night Shyamalan

#audience #bad #critical #had #instance

I had to produce a complete page - or two or three - in one day. I took a lot of pride in my work, and I hated to do a mediocre job. Evidently, some of the writers enjoyed my work best of all for that very reason. ↗

— Joe Shuster

#complete #day #enjoyed #evidently #had

Most of our pocket wisdom is conceived for the use of mediocre people, to discourage them from ambitious attempts, and generally console them in their mediocrity. ↗

— Robert Louis Stevenson

#attempts #conceived #console #discourage #generally