Mac Davis Quotes

I worked for a publishing company in Hollywood.

Mac Davis

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• If you're going to maintain true authorities over a subordinate organization, you have to have some control over policy formulation of that organization and also the resources that are applied to it.

  

  Jack Keane
  • True
  • Control
  • Organization

• In politics, the reaction to a controversy is very often more enlightening and important than the details of the allegations themselves.

  

  Tammy Bruce
  • Important
  • Politics
  • Details

• The craft of writing is all the stuff that you can learn through school; go to workshops and read books. Learn characterization, plot and dialogue and pacing and word choice and point of view. Then there's also the art of it which is sort of the unknown, the inspiration, the stuff that is noncerebral.

  

  Garth Stein
  • Writing
  • Art
  • Inspiration

• I like when everything's naturally moving along - I find that pretty exciting.

  

  Katey Sagal
  • Pretty
  • Moving
  • Like

• The thoughtful soul to solitude retires.

  

  Omar Khayyam
  • Soul
  • Solitude
  • Thoughtful

• Fortunately there is more wealth in the world than there was at the time of the global economic crisis of 1929 - Chinese, Indian, Arab and Russian.

  

  Karl Lagerfeld
  • Time
  • World
  • Chinese

• It is my job to sell these fighters. I'm now a business partner of the UFC. What I do directly affects my paycheck. I try my best. I just don't want people to be indifferent.

  

  Daniel Cormier
  • People
  • Business
  • Job

• Where I am, I don't know, I'll never know, in the silence you don't know, you must go on, I can't go on, I'll go on.

  

  Samuel Beckett
  • Silence
  • Go

• I was sent the script for 'Silver Linings' when I was doing a play in D.C. at The Kennedy Center with Cate Blanchett and I was sent the script and asked if I was interested, and I said 'Oh, boy am I!'

  

  Jacki Weaver
  • Boy
  • Doing
  • Silver

• One of the problems with posing a 'bold new plan' is that you can't just extrapolate from previous plans.

  

  Nathan Myhrvold
  • Problems
  • Plan
  • Bold

• Playing music is a beautiful thing. But listening to music is just as great.

  

  Flea Jane's Addiction
  • Great
  • Music
  • Beautiful

• For many children, the library represents their only access to books, reading, and the Internet outside of their home. If you think about how far behind a child would be without access to these fundamental tools - tools that are vital to successful employment later in life - it's a travesty.

  

  Karin Slaughter
  • Life
  • Children
  • Home

• And literature frequently rises to heights that make it international.

  

  Irving Langmuir
  • Literature
  • Heights

• I've always loved projects where I can combine acting and music.

  

  Natalia Tena
  • Music
  • Acting
  • Loved

• I am a sound freak. I could play around with sound forever.

  

  Sam Phillips
  • Sound
  • Freak

• I took all my wax studies and threw them in the fire... that's the way it is when something unpleasant happens to me. I take my hammer and I squash a figure.

  

  Camille Claudel
  • Way
  • Me
  • Fire

• Passion for fame: A passion which is the instinct of all great souls.

  

  Edmund Burke
  • Great
  • Passion
  • Famous

• I went to the studio of Fischli Weiss, and it was magical. I thought: 'This is what I want to do with my life; I want to work with artists and be useful to them.' I was magnetically attracted.

  

  Hans-Ulrich Obrist
  • Life
  • Work
  • Thought

• Her nakedness was not absolute, for like Manet's _Olympia__, behind her ear she had a poisonous flower with orange petals, and she also wore a gold bangle on her right wrist and a necklace of tiny pearls. I imagined I would never see anything more exciting for as long as I lived, and today I can confirm that I was right.

  

  Gabriel Garcia Marquez
  • Long
  • She
  • Today

• Life is ours to be spent, not to be saved.

  

  D. H. Lawrence
  • Life
  • Saved
  • Ours

• In the history of enterprise, most of the protagonists of major new products and companies began their education

  

  George Gilder
  • Company
  • Capitalism
  • Enterprise

• Hollywood, to hear some writers tell it, is the place where they take an author's steak tartare and make cheeseburger out of it. Upon seeing the film, they say, the author promptly cuts his throat, bleeding to death in a pool of money.

  

  Fletcher Knebel
  • Film
  • Hollywood
  • Writers

• There's not really much destruction in New York besides the weather and it's a natural force so it's not like any destruction. But LA gets leveled (laughs). That's my comment to Hollywood.

  

  Roland Emmerich
  • Hollywood
  • Destruction
  • Comment

• I worked for a publishing company in Hollywood.

  

  Mac Davis
  • Company
  • Hollywood
  • Worked