Bonnie McKee Quotes

I have been doing some writing on the side a little bit with artists that I'm really excited about. Kind of more up and coming people. But, I'm focusing more on my own project. It's a full time job being an artist!

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• Because I'm a big guy, I was always playing the bad guy or whatever, but after I did 'The Blind Side,' where I played a father who's a really loving, likeable sort of person, a lot of those barriers were broken down. People saw me as something softer, not so much as a heavy anymore.

  

  Omar Dorsey
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• One's past is what one is. It is the only way by which people should be judged.

  

  Oscar Wilde
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• Once you give up rights, they're not going to give them back.

  

  Aaron McGruder
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• Predators make it much more difficult to find consensus. It's a lot easier to agree about birds and plants than about animals that endanger people and livestock.

  

  Gale Norton
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  • Birds
  • Plants

• Realize that the game of life is the game of, to some extent, being taken advantage of by people who make a science of it. Whether they are in government or personal life or in business, they're everywhere.

  

  Walter Kirn
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• Children are educated by what the grown-up is and not by his talk.

  

  Carl Jung
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• The entertainment medium of film is particularly tuned to the present imaginations of people at large. A lot of fiction is intensely nostalgic.

  

  J. G. Ballard
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• Most people think companies are basically evil. They get a bad rap. And I think that's somewhat correct.

  

  Larry Page
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• Only people have been through that miserable time will recall the pass from their deep memory.

  

  Zhang Yimou
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• Do I feel that white directors have to tell only white stories? No. Do I feel that black filmmakers should only tell stories about black people? No. If we say that, then that means Asian people cannot write about anybody but Asians. I don't think a woman should only write about women.

  

  Octavia Spencer
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• You have to understand that you are not making the film for yourself; you're making it for the audience. If I am asking my audiences to buy tickets, I owe them the worth of their money, and I owe them entertainment.

  

  Abhishek Bachchan
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• I wasn't one of those kids who grew up wanting to write or who read a particular book and thought: 'I want to do that!' I always told stories and wrote them down, but I never thought writing was a career path, even though, clearly, someone was writing the books and newspapers and magazines.

  

  Gayle Forman
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• I'd like it if people thought I was Jewish looking.

  

  Natalie Portman
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• You don't have to buy from anyone. You don't have to work at any particular job. You don't have to participate in any given relationship. You can choose.

  

  Harry Browne
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• I think that's why often people in creative fields can feel so alone is because there's a constant third eye, that constant watcher.

  

  Oscar Isaac
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• It's time to stop obsessing about overhead and start focusing on progress. Change charity, and charity can change the world.

  

  Dan Pallotta
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• I love 'Battles,' and I love what it's doing for people.

  

  La'Porsha Renae
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• I know this independence is what people like most about my brand.

  

  Raf Simons
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• There are certain things that Americans expect their government to do. Our infrastructure is vitally important. Putting people back to work with construction is important. Our roads, our bridges, our sewers, our waterways, our dams - this is what makes our country so special.

  

  Valerie Jarrett
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• Botox and other fillers make everybody look the same, with the big cheekbones where they fill you up. It's much cheaper to have a fringe - it takes years off everybody.

  

  Keeley Hawes
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• Economy is the method by which we prepare today to afford the improvements of tomorrow.

  

  Calvin Coolidge
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• In Silicon Valley, where I worked at companies like Facebook and Twitter for the earlier part of this decade, Cuba was generally regarded, when it was regarded at all, as a technological curiosity.

  

  Antonio Garcia Martinez
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• Sometimes I get the bug to live in London for a year, or something like that, and maybe I will. But New Jersey's home.

  

  Brian Fallon
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• I have been doing some writing on the side a little bit with artists that I'm really excited about. Kind of more up and coming people. But, I'm focusing more on my own project. It's a full time job being an artist!

  

  Bonnie McKee
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