A great deal of pressure was then built up to remove me from the club and my resignation was, finally, a forced one.

I was brought up in Scotland and have always been a country person, although the town means a great deal to me, too.

Nostalgia has always been a key player in my songwriting cause within that space I find a great deal of inspiration.

Since my mother is an extremely devoted Christian Orthodox woman, she prayed a great deal and taught me how to pray.

My race and sex had a great deal more to do with what people believed I could do than with what I actually could do.

The pen is a formidable weapon, but a man can kill himself with it a great deal more easily than he can other people.

A vest, as a clothing item, always makes a statement, but depending on context, those declarations vary a great deal.

The intelligence of the lower forms of animal life, like a great deal of human intelligence, does not involve a self.

The condom has saved so many lives, and it'll save so many more lives. We really owe a great deal to the rubber tree.

I still have a great deal of faith in our political system and a great deal of faith in the American people and voter.

You don't sign up for a divorce when you get married. It's very painful. But it's taught me a great deal about myself.

Sondheim is my god; I love the man. I learned a great deal about writing from his work, his lyrics, and his structure.

There is a great deal of sympathy amongst workers for the Occupy Wall Street movement. We understand their frustration.

I realized that a great deal of life is exactly and precisely about being able to feel pain: my own and other people's.

I have a great deal of difficulty recognizing faces, especially if I haven't - if I've just met somebody, it's hopeless.

If you re-read your work, you can find on re-reading a great deal of repetition can be avoided by re-reading and editing.

Ever since I was introduced to Ekta Kapoor, I have learnt a great deal from her storytelling, and the learning continues.

Time means a great deal to every runner. It means everything to me, because most days miles don't count; only minutes do.

I had a great deal of arrogance and a great deal of bravado, but I think the bravado was brought on by a huge insecurity.

It costs a great deal of money to do a musical, and the more money involved, the more big business influences the artform.

We've got a great deal of respect for each other on camera as well as off, no matter what it might occasionally look like.

A founder who is in for the short run, or has no passion for the sector he is in, doesn't give me a great deal of comfort.

You have to be smart enough not to dismiss where you came from. It may not be all we are, but it makes up for a great deal.

Juventus can afford to spend a great deal of money for new players. But Napoli can always respond by playing magnificently.

The difference between a bad artist and a good one is: the bad artist seems to copy a great deal; the good one really does.

A mode of conduct, a standard of courage, discipline, fortitude and integrity can do a great deal to make a woman beautiful.

You can get an interview with anyone overseas on the basis of being part of 'Newsweek.' It still has a great deal of impact.

You bring out a lot of your own thoughts and attitudes when acting. I think a great deal of it has to do with the inner you.

I think the one thing about me is I'm a fairly demanding guy, and I give a great deal of myself, and I expect that in return.

There is a great deal of difference between an eager man who wants to read a book and the tired man who wants a book to read.

We spend a great deal of our energy making sure that small businesses have help in navigating to the outcomes that they want.

My first popular book, 'A Brief History of Time,' aroused a great deal of interest, but many found it difficult to understand.

The protection of biodiversity and, therefore, of endangered species is an issue to which I attach a great deal of importance.

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.

A film is a great deal about what you see, and the silhouette of a character tells you a lot. I'd love to go into film costume.

By the late '70s I had come to question the point of a great deal of what we were doing, in terms of the CIA's overall charter.

We shouldn't be profiting from our students who are drowning in debt while giving a great deal to the banks. That's just wrong.

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.

Architecture remains a passion and a subject I'm very interested in. I learned a great deal from studying it and working in it.

I was brought up in the War. I was an adolescent in the Second World War. And I did witness in London a great deal of the Blitz.

My early life has given me a great deal to draw on, certainly - but would I have swapped a happy childhood for the writing? Yes.

I just want to say I owe the whole reds organization a great deal. Great staff top to bottom and I wish those guys all the best.

My mother was a woman who was very frustrated. She had a great deal of ability, and all this energy went into me and my brother.

The minute a person whose word means a great deal to others dare to take the open-hearted and courageous way, many others follow.

Many British people of different faiths follow religious codes and practices and benefit a great deal from the guidance they offer.

I have a great deal of respect and affinity for Tammy Duckworth; she's a seatmate of mine. She's got heart, soul; she's a war hero.

In school I was in the dark room all the time, and I've always collected stray photographs; there's a great deal of memory in them.

I have a great deal of respect for other clubs and admire the good football they play, but ultimately, Real Madrid are Real Madrid.

I have a chart for success at school because it gave me a great deal of pleasure. It opened my mind to the world. I learned to read.

I just come up with the stories and write them as well as I can. There's not really a great deal of strokey-beard thinking going on.

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