Christian McKay Quotes

It's more difficult playing a real-life person than a fictional character - you can go easy on yourself with a fictional character.

Christian McKay

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• It's lovely to be considered pretty and lovely to do photo shoots, and I just love fashion. But I'm proud that I did the characters I wanted to do.

  

  Laura Dern
  • Pretty
  • Fashion
  • Proud

• I feel that after all those horrible reviews and jokes, I wasn't crazy all these years to stand up for the music I believe in. This album has proven that somewhere in the human race, the human heart is still racing and breaking and I am so grateful.

  

  Barry Manilow
  • Up
  • Music
  • Believe

• I was initially very interested in public policy, but then after my masters at Harvard, I felt that it was important to get a better handle on the economics of it as well. I did my Ph.D. in macroeconomics, and my thesis - 'Why Is It That Some Countries Save And Others Not?' - was on savings.

  

  Dambisa Moyo
  • Important
  • Why
  • Better

• I don't believe that intelligence can be reduced to a number, frankly. But I can see how doing exactly that produces a useful sorting mechanism in our society in order to separate children into categories of promising and doomed. The tests seem arbitrary and without real scientific value and yet have lasting consequences.

  

  Rachel Kushner
  • Believe
  • Children
  • Real

• I'm getting married because I'm in love with a girl and want to spend my life with her. You can't live your life doing what other people want you to or you'll be miserable. At some point you just have to be yourself.

  

  Dan Marino
  • People
  • Life
  • Doing

• If you're paralyzing your face in your 20s and 30s, you're not exercising the muscles that give it strength. My feeling is, laugh, cry, move your face.

  

  Salma Hayek
  • Feeling
  • Face
  • Laugh

• Was Sen. Barack Obama a Muslim? Did he ever practice Islam? The presidential candidate officially rejects the claims, but the issue of Obama's personal faith has re-emerged amid conflicting accounts of his enrollment as a Muslim during elementary school in Indonesia, the world's most populous Muslim nation.

  

  Aaron Klein
  • World
  • School
  • Faith

• Experimenting with different sounds is great, but when it comes down to it, you're still playing a guitar.

  

  Daisy Berkowitz
  • Great
  • Different
  • Guitar

• It is vital that Iraq and the United States together send the clearest possible signal that those who commit acts of violence against American military forces and American civilians will not be rewarded with amnesty.

  

  Ike Skelton
  • American
  • Together
  • Violence

• If a topic hits me, I'll start going on it. But you can't force it.

  

  Wanda Sykes
  • You
  • Me
  • Start

• People really love editorial cartoons, and I think publishers understand that.

  

  Walt Handelsman
  • People
  • Think
  • Understand

• It is a political thriller. It's very action packed and it's very exciting, but at the same time it's a very big soulful love story about longing and loss. They're not separate, they're completely dependent on one another.

  

  Rachel Weisz
  • Political
  • Story
  • Loss

• I liked to be around my friends, but my dad was out there, day in and day out.

  

  Malik Jackson
  • Friends
  • Dad
  • Day

• An artist's sphere of influence is the world.

  

  Carl Maria von Weber
  • World
  • Artist
  • Influence

• I'm not really into the political game as far as paying politicians and stuff like that, I'm not into that. You do your job, and I'll do mine.

  

  Ice Cube
  • Job
  • Game
  • Political

• It's not like my old self – I'm not in character anymore, I'm me. I'm not hiding behind that anymore.

  

  Damon Albarn Blur
  • Character
  • Like
  • Old

• Few of them were to be trusted within reach of a trowel and a pile of bricks.

  

  P. G. Wodehouse
  • Reach
  • Within
  • Trusted

• The fighter loses more than his pride in the fight; he loses part of his future. He's a step closer to the slum he came from.

  

  Floyd Patterson
  • Future
  • Pride
  • Fight

• Priorities like winning the War on Terror and providing tax relief that will keep our economy growing strong.

  

  Dennis Hastert
  • War
  • Strong
  • Growing

• Look, architecture has a lot of places to hide behind, a lot of excuses. 'The client made me do this.' 'The city made me do this.' 'Oh, the budget.' I don't believe that anymore.

  

  Frank Gehry
  • Believe
  • City
  • Architecture

• I pray before everything. When I wake up, before I eat, before I perform, before I go to sleep, in the moments I need guidance.

  

  Alicia Keys
  • Up
  • Moments
  • Sleep

• Lines have to smile. There have to be life, blood and heart in things you let go. They have to be human, warm and alive

  

  Kay Bojesen
  • Heart
  • Humans
  • Blood

• Literature adds to reality, it does not simply describe it. It enriches the necessary competencies that daily life requires and provides; and in this respect, it irrigates the deserts that our lives have already become.

  

  C. S. Lewis
  • Life
  • Reality
  • Respect

• It's more difficult playing a real-life person than a fictional character - you can go easy on yourself with a fictional character.

  

  Christian McKay
  • Life
  • Real
  • Character