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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  • Bad
  • Father

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

  

  Oscar Wilde
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  • Past
  • Should

• 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
  • People
  • Life
  • Business

• 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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  • Audience

• 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
  • People
  • Independence
  • Brand

• I grew up in Jackson, Mississippi, really in suburbia, so my mother was in community theatre plays.

  

  Beth Henley
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  • Mother
  • Community

• In God there is an infinitude of things which I cannot comprehend, nor possibly even reach in any way by thought; for it is the nature of the infinite that my nature, which is finite and limited, should not comprehend it.

  

  Rene Descartes
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• My being a writer and playing Scrabble are connected. If I have a good writing day, I'll take a break and play online Scrabble. My favorite word as a child was 'carrion,' before I knew what it meant. I later created crossword puzzles, which was a lot about puns, and how words would create these strange, strange things.

  

  Meg Wolitzer
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  • Words

• Fame, money and the size of the market are not very important to me. What is, is writing a book that is worth doing and then publishing it. I don't write books for entertainment, for people to pass the time then throw away.

  

  Aidan Chambers
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• Once men are caught up in an event, they cease to be afraid. Only the unknown frightens men.

  

  Antoine de Saint-Exupery
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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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