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"Sometimes I'd go [in British accent] "Uhh, brilliant! Absolutely brilliant, thank you. Wonderful. Cheers!" I do say "cheers" automatically," from living over there. I say "cheers" to everything."
"I've got this brilliant thing where I go, 'I'm Robbie Williams', and people are interested in what I want to say - which is amazing because I'm just an idiot from Stoke-on-Trent."
"Martin Sheen is my pinup! And Allison Janney, oh my God. They're brilliant actors."
"Challenge serves beautifully to introduce you to your best - and most brilliant - self."
"A brilliant author or businesswoman or senator or software engineer is brilliant only in tiny bursts. The rest of the time, they’re doing work that most any trained person could do."
"The last thing I thought that was utterly brilliant was the season finale of the last season of 'Homeland'. I was just completely and utterly speechless and I think my friend was poking me going: "What did you think?""
"Like I said, when all of that goes away and you just completely lose yourself in the fantasy of it, then that's usually when I walk out of the theatre or turn off the television and just go: "That was brilliant!""
"The hardest thing for me is planning ahead. My mom was brilliant at it."
"By doing just a little every day, I can gradually let the task completely overwhelm me."
"George Moore wrote brilliant English until he discovered grammar."
"The most brilliant fortunes are often not worth the littleness required to gain them."
"No matter how brilliant an action, it should not be considered great unless it was the result of a great motive."
"The innocent supposition, entertained by most people, that even if they are not brilliant, they are not dumb, is correct only in a very relative sense."
"Stephen Colbert's recent comment is apropos: When the Republican legislature of North Carolina responded to a scientific study predicting a threatening rise in sea level by barring state and local agencies from developing regulations or planning documents to address the problem, Colbert responded: "This is a brilliant solution. If your science gives you a result that you don't like, pass a law saying the result is illegal. Problem solved.""
"A luminous body will appear more brilliant in proportion as it is surrounded by deeper shadow."
"Scott Asheton was a brilliant drummer, a natural musician."
"Brilliant, hard-earned and honest. The erasures and reappearances of figure and ground-that hard drama-have rarely been so movingly undertaken. A heartbreakingly beautiful work."
"All free communities have both been more exempt from social injustice and crime, and have attained more brilliant prosperity, than any others, or than they themselves after they have lost their freedom."
"Frost is back - this is a brilliant read, I can't recommend it highly enough."
"I think you either have to have a very strong decisive person at the top or else a really brilliant staff command."
