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Big Shoes, Big Shot, Big Star, and Big Surprise Quotes

Big Shoes, Big Shot, Big Star,  Quotes

1. I thought I would dress in baggy pants, big shoes, a cane and a derby hat. everything a contradiction: the pants baggy, the coat tight, the hat small and the shoes large. - Charlie Chaplin

2. I had big shoes to fill, but the way we have been playing has made the transition easy. - Ricky Ponting

3. I never looked at the consequences of missing a big shot... when you think about the consequences you always think of a negative result. - Michael Jordan

4. I love roller coasters that make my stomach drop. One ride in Las Vegas, the Big Shot, straps you into a row of seats and catapults you into the air from the top of the Stratosphere Tower - then plummets back down. I ride it over and over; it's exhilarating. - Drew Barrymore

5. It's an institution that was born with my brother Chetan and me. I did it for him. I was becoming a big star in the late 1940s, and he needed a company to make films. So when he left Navketan, I brought in Goldie, and when Goldie left, I carried on alone. No book on Indian cinema is complete without mention of Navketan. - Dev Anand

6. I don't want to get any bigger - what does a 'big star' mean? I just want to be loved. - Jackie Shroff

7. Stardom doesn't appeal to me in anyway. Of course, I want people to like my work, but in my mind I've consciously created a line where I don't think of myself as a big star. - Arvind Swami

8. Dev Anand was extremely cooperative towards a newcomer. He never made me feel that he was a big star and I, a newcomer. - Waheeda Rehman

9. To make a breakthrough in Hollywood, you have to be committed to doing it, which is true of anything in life. I was already a big star in India and I stayed with that. - Zeenat Aman

10. I can honestly say - and it's a big surprise to me - that I have never had a dream about being on the moon. - Neil Armstrong

11. To be mentioned as a Test captain was a big surprise. Eoin Morgan.

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