Malcolm Gets Quotes
For me, the most effective cabaret evenings have been some of the most personal ones, where the performer is comfortable enough to simply be themselves.
Quotes to Explore
-
I think comedy has evolved like every art form, and people probably do less standing around and telling jokes, and more things that have to do with reality.
-
Let's talk about Connie Britton, who I love. I don't know of a person who doesn't love her, I don't know a man or woman who doesn't have a crush on her, she's the most fabulous person in the entire world, and she's such an incredible actress, and so sweet, and I love her.
-
The disappearance of MH370 has tested our collective resolve.
-
In social policy, when we provide a safety net, it should be designed to help people take more entrepreneurial risks, not to turn them into dependents. This doesn't mean that we should be callous to the underprivileged.
-
I grew up on a farm where we had one radio station and it was all country.
-
Billy Jean King could not get credit when her husband was in law school and she was winning the Wimbledon, because he had to sign the cards. You know, you had these cases in the '70s of women who were mayors who couldn't get credit unless their husbands signed for them.
-
Irish novelist John Banville has a creepy, introverted imagination.
-
In some ways, my most comfortable feeling has been that of being an outsider coming in, but over the years I've tired of that and I'm ready to feel at home. That's what music gives me: a feeling of absolute home.
-
In the face of postwar austerity, hundreds of brides-to-be across the country sent Princess Elizabeth their clothing coupons so that she could have the dress of their dreams.
-
Well-run libraries are filled with people because what a good library offers cannot be easily found elsewhere: an indoor public space in which you do not have to buy anything in order to stay.
-
Balance is so important in our lives. In our busy world, we can give ourselves balance between thinking and feeling.
-
The love story for me was the nature of the love and not the age of the lovers.
-
I know what I want to achieve in each book and the major points, but I don't plan right down to the chapters. I think that the characters write themselves in some degree.
-
Some of modern engineering is necessary to good art. But I think of myself is a cultural artist.
-
You can't create a monster, then whine when it stomps on a few buildings.
-
There's always merit to having a debate.
-
The wind is a very difficult sound to get. It's always changing.
-
What Whitney Houston has accomplished will never be accomplished. She's the most famous person on the planet as far as vocaling and her songs. So I'm very happy that I can sit here and say I had a chance to know her. And I'm still dazed that she's gone. But she lives because her music is so powerful.
-
Failure is a detour, not a dead-end street.
-
Working in a bar was a horrific idea for me.
-
My mom was dying for me to write a book, she was my biggest advocate.
-
Gym Class is a band I am more directly involved with than any other band except for Fall Out Boy.
-
For me, the most effective cabaret evenings have been some of the most personal ones, where the performer is comfortable enough to simply be themselves.
