Sweeping Quotes

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I felt like I went to somebody else`s birthday party and I ate all their cake without anybody else getting a piece. - When asked by Katie Couric how she felt after sweeping the Grammy Awards in 2003

- Norah Jones

"If people have to tell you how successful they are, they really aren`t that successful. That`s something I learned sweeping floors at this recording studio called the Power Station. Mediocre stars were the biggest pricks, and the big stars were the ones who came in and said, "How`re those demos going?" - Keep pushing." (success and life)

- Jon Bon Jovi

I`m a sucker for those sweeping love stories. When I read the script (The Notebook (2004)), I couldn`t stop crying! I just had such a powerful, instantaneous reaction - it was written so well.

- Rachel McAdams

It was amazing just the scope and how sweeping the whole thing is. It`s a big epic - tons of actors, tons of extras, explosions. They move a lot slower obviously than they do (on TV) so you`re just doing a couple of pages a day, so that was interesting to get used to.

- Mark Consuelos

The subtlest comedy you can get right now is MASH (1970). They don`t want to see a picture unless Peter Fonda is running over a dozen people or unless Clint Eastwood has got a machine gun bigger then 140 penises. It gets bigger all the time, you know; it started out as a pistol and now it`s a machine gun. Something which is warm and funny and gentle and urbane and civilized hasn`t got a chance today. There is a lack of patience which is sweeping the nation - or the world, for that matter.

- Billy Wilder

There are some scenes that work beautifully in a moving, sweeping master, which is how I like to work.

- Debbie Allen

I made a dollar a day sweeping a laundry out. Then we made a record that was number two in Los Angeles. We got so excited hearing it on the radio that Carl threw up.

- Dennis Wilson

The girls have a chance of sweeping, no question.

- Ross Powers

I just wanted to do this all Australian film and we didn`t want to give creative control to overseas `cause whoever comes on my sets, whether you`re sweeping the floor or an actor, it doesn`t matter who comes up with the ideas, it`s a collaboration.

- Yahoo Serious

At the time, I thought it was horrible. I knew immediately I`d be committing professional suicide, but I thought `what choice do I have?` Somehow, I seemed to be dead already. I love glamour and physical beauty. I`ve always been fascinated by beautiful men on the screen: Tyrone Power, Robert Walker, with soft-focus filters and velvet voices. That`s what Ed Wood was like. Beautiful dreamy eyes and long, sweeping lashes just beautiful. He didn`t make a very pretty lady (in Glen or Glenda"), but he made an awfully pretty man." -- regarding the film "Plan 9 from Outer Space"

- Vampira

(Ralph Reed of the Christian Coalition also spoke up for Gingrich, calling the speaker`s trip to China a) cause for pride. ... We should not cave to the president`s wishes and pass a budget that does not include the most sweeping tax cuts since the Reagan tax cuts of the 1980s. We need tax cuts and we need them now.

- Ralph Reed

We have a few more test days in the car since the last time we were at Watkins Glen, ... The car worked great on half of the track so the long course should be even better. We have worked hard on getting the car to handle better through long sweeping turns and under braking since we were last at the Glen. I hope that we can backup our first win there from July

- Paul Edwards

The sweeping changes in the entertainment industry dictated necessary, competitive changes at ABC, and I feel that the time is right to move on.

- Jamie Tarses

The traveller must, of course, always be cautious of the overly broad generalisation. But I am an American, and a paucity of data does not stop me from making sweeping, vague, conceptual statements and, if necessary, following these statements up with troops.

- George Saunders

I am never at my best in the early morning, especially a cold morning in the Yorkshire spring with a piercing March wind sweeping down from the fells, finding its way inside my clothing, nipping at my nose and ears.

- James Herriot

We played well, sweeping doubles and winning three out of four singles matches in straight sets.

- Jeff Thomas

On the same day I was sworn in as Prime Minister of Canada, I announced the most sweeping reform ever undertaken in the structure of our federal government.

- Kim Campbell

All sweeping assertions are erroneous.

- Allyson Donnelly

Four years ago, while the nation`s eyes were fixed on the devastation in New York City, California`s Democrat-controlled Legislature attacked marriage by enacting a sweeping domestic partner bill one day after September 11,

- Ann Fields

We are all sickened by these continual random acts of violence that are sweeping our country,

- Aziz McMahon