Donald McCaig Quotes

I'm a workaday writer.

Donald McCaig

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• Every art expression is rooted fundamentally in the personality and temperament of the artist.

  

  Hans Hofmann
  • Art
  • Artist
  • Personality

• People first concern themselves with meeting their basic needs; only afterwards, do they pursue any higher needs.

  

  Abdolkarim Soroush
  • People
  • First
  • Meeting

• It was wrongly assumed that I wished to become some sort of leader among gay activists, whereas in reality I was happier to be a foot soldier.

  

  Ian Mckellen
  • Reality
  • Gay
  • Leader

• George Foreman is easier and has the bigger name and have you noticed that Foreman never calls me out or ever mentions my name? He is afraid of me like most fighters are and most people want to forget about Larry Holmes, like he never ever existed.

  

  Larry Holmes
  • People
  • Forget
  • Name

• There's no smarter politician out there than Bill Clinton.

  

  Ed Rollins
  • Politician
  • Out
  • Smarter

• Near the end of my career, I saw things that didn't make too much sense to me when I was a kid.

  

  Nadia Comaneci
  • Career
  • End
  • Sense

• Writing is work. It takes a lot of contemplation, concentration, and out-and-out sweat. People tend to romanticize it, that somehow your work appears by benefit of some mystical external force. In reality, to be a writer, you have to sit down and write. It's work, and often it's hard work.

  

  Wendelin Van Draanen
  • People
  • Work
  • Writing

• I'm a girl from Queens. I've never gone, 'What am I doing today? Oh, I'm gonna grab a gun and learn how to use it.'

  

  Zoe Saldana
  • Today
  • Girl
  • Gun

• The tyranny of a multitude is a multiplied tyranny.

  

  Edmund Burke
  • Tyranny
  • Multitude

• My very first audition was on the lot of Paramount, and I was put on tape and it was very nerve-racking. I think it was about 15 pages.

  

  Hailee Steinfeld
  • Think
  • First
  • Very

• I was a political science major in college and dreamed of being a diplomat.

  

  Rachel Platten
  • Political
  • Science
  • College

• A short piece of work means as much to me as a long piece of work.

  

  Harold Pinter
  • Work
  • Long
  • Short

• When you're on set, the crew are like your family because you see them every day, six days a week.

  

  Naomie Harris
  • Family
  • Day
  • Week

• I remember on Deus Ex there was one programmer - Alex Durand, a guy who still works for us - he decided he was going to get through the game without ever using a weapon. I would never think to do that. And that's fine.

  

  Warren Spector
  • Remember
  • Guy
  • Think

• Society is not homogeneous, and those who do not deliberately close their eyes have to recognize that men differ greatly from one another from the physical, moral, and intellectual viewpoints.

  

  Vilfredo Pareto
  • Men
  • Society
  • Eyes

• Military intervention for reasons of ideology or nation building is not an Eisenhower or Nixon or Reagan tradition. It is not a Republican tradition. It is a Bush II-neocon deformity, an aberration that proved disastrous for the United States and the Middle East.

  

  Pat Buchanan
  • Military

• Depart then satisfied, for he also who releases thee is satisfied.

  

  Marcus Aurelius

• My dad A.D. King, Uncle MLK, and Granddaddy King passed on to me their beliefs on biblical marriage. Life is a human and civil right, so is procreative marriage... We must now go back to the beginning, starting with Genesis, and teach about God’s plan for marriage... It's time to start from scratch and lay the foundation all over again.

  

  Alveda King
  • Life
  • Time
  • God

• 'O gin I find anither ladye,' He said wi' sighs and tears, 'I wot my coortin' sall not be Anither thirty years:'For gin I find a ladye gay, Exactly to my taste, I'll pop the question, aye or nay, In twenty years at maist.'

  

  Lewis Carroll
  • Question
  • Gay
  • Tears

• One cannot, at once, claim to be superhuman and then plead mortal error. I propose to take our countrymen's claims of American exceptionalism seriously, which is to say I propose subjecting our country to an exceptional moral standard.

  

  Ta-Nehisi Coates
  • Country
  • American
  • Moral

• I expressed myself through hyperactivity and disruption. I wanted to play rather than study.

  

  Ashraf Barhom
  • Study

• My grandmother lived on Elizabeth Street in Little Italy, and she used to go to church every day. She'd go in, light a candle, she'd pray, and as a child, that was comforting to me.

  

  Leah Remini
  • She
  • Light
  • Church

• I listen to a lot of Phil Collins.

  

  Jes Macallan

• I'm a workaday writer.

  

  Donald McCaig