Marty Meehan Quotes
Quotes to Explore
-
It's good to keep in mind that prominence is always a mix of hard work, eloquence in your practice, good timing and fortuitous social relations. Everything can't be personalized.
-
There is a healthful hardiness about real dignity that never dreads contact and communion with others however humble.
-
Being bi-racial and being from the country, I can talk to guys like Travis Frederick from Wisconsin and Doug Free from Wisconsin. And then I can go over and talk to Dez Bryant. I mean, think about the two different standpoints you need to have a real conversation with both, to really understand what they've been through.
-
I was raised in the Baptist church... but I didn't really have a real committed experience with Christ until my father died.
-
If you have real passion for a career in game shows, be willing to serve an apprenticeship; it's the best way to learn.
-
We need the world to respect us. They consume a lot of hits and just act like it wasn't... I ain't never seen nobody make these many hits and not get notified for it. And change the game like we did and bring the flow to the game the way we did and not get noticed for it, like the the big way - the real system way.
-
In high school, I was doing my magazine 'Rookie' and a lot of writing, and I became a little less interested in the fashion world. I was approached by an agent for writing, and I said I wanted to act as well. They sent me scripts, and then I got my first Broadway play, 'This Is Our Youth'.
-
A failure is not always a mistake, it may simply be the best one can do under the circumstances. The real mistake is to stop trying.
-
I love writing two narratives! I think concurrent storylines are my favorite way to write a book.
-
I've got a clear line between work and real life.
-
We all need to focus on our writing. Because the millions of readers out there don't care about your blog.
-
If the government would like to hire my services to maximize value for their stake, they should approach me. No problem.
-
When I'm writing, I look like a fool because the parts are moving through me and I'm crying and laughing and making faces.
-
When we saw our plane on TV as breaking news, it was the most surreal experience. A lot of the women were crying. There was a gentleman who was writing in his journal and crying. Seeing that isn't easy.
-
The hardest thing about writing my second album is that I had 20 years to write my first album.
-
The only sensible ends of literature are, first, the pleasurable toil of writing; second, the gratification of one's family and friends; and lastly, the solid cash.
-
So my thing is we want come in and diffuse anything that's not real, anything that doesn't associate with real hip-hop. We want to be the one that says, 'Yo, we want to help build and build a bigger and better industry.' I'm just like, 'Yo, with talent from Toronto, Vancouver, Quebec. Who's paying attention?'
-
All art is propaganda, and ever must be, despite the wailing of the purists. I stand in utter shamelessness and say that whatever art I have for writing has been used always for propaganda for gaining the right of black folk to love and enjoy. I do not care a damn for any art that is not used for propaganda.
-
I can't focus when there's too many things around. Whenever I used to go to the office, I used to always say, 'Tidy up.'
-
When I started out, even though you had your rhythm section, they were big horn sections, strings, live people laying on every part of the floor in the studio waiting for their chance to get on that one little track.
-
There is no living with thee, nor without thee.
-
Barack Obama's convention speech in 2004 had made him a political star, and he arrived in Iowa to crowds unseen in caucus history.
-
Real lobbying reform must end the practice of corporate lobbyists writing our laws.
