Bonnie McKee Quotes

I realized there are so many steps from getting a deal to having a hit.

Bonnie McKee

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• What I felt was, if you spend your life just writing fiction, you are going to falsify your material. And the fictional form was going to force you to do things with the material, to dramatize it in a certain way. I thought nonfiction gave one a chance to explore the world, the other world, the world that one didn't know fully.

  

  V. S. Naipaul
  • Life
  • World
  • Writing

• I've got a 12-year-old grandson who, when he was 3 years old, before he could say many other words, could name the different kinds of dinosaurs.

  

  Walter Cronkite
  • Different
  • Words
  • Years

• A big part of what I wanted to do with this character was go from when I was a boy and try and develop into a man, really try and play him as a man who is on this search, on a journey of personal, spiritual, political, social discovery.

  

  Orlando Bloom
  • Character
  • Man
  • Political

• There's never been a time in history, no matter what the public thinks, when actors have been paid more than they should be.

  

  Ed Asner
  • Time
  • History
  • Never

• Great wisdom is generous; petty wisdom is contentious. Great speech is impassioned, small speech cantankerous.

  

  Zhuangzi
  • Great
  • Small
  • Wisdom

• I'm marriable. But I'm not married.

  

  Rachel Weisz
  • Married

• I didn't get a phone call from Bill Clinton before I jumped in the race ... maybe it's because I hadn't given money to the foundation or donated to his wife's senate race.

  

  Carly Fiorina
  • Money
  • Wife
  • Foundation

• Usually in a Smosh sketch, we get 60 shots, 12 hours to shoot - we're just going 'bam, bam, bam.'

  

  Ian Hecox
  • Hours
  • Shots
  • Sketch

• The thinking in the show, the hacker thinking of how do you approach every problem, I think they're hacking life more than they're hacking systems.

  

  Walter O'Brien
  • Life
  • Thinking

• Jesus appeared unto the ancient Nephites, in the northern part of what we call South America…

  

  Orson Pratt
  • America
  • Jesus

• If you want to have good ideas you must have many ideas. Most of them will be wrong, and what you have to learn is which ones to throw away.

  

  Linus Pauling
  • Good

• I like Mr. Gorbachev. We can do business together.

  

  Margaret Thatcher
  • Business
  • Together

• Vita brevis nulli superest qui tempus in illaquaerendae sibi mortis habet.

  

  Lucan

• Don't be afraid to feel as angry or as loving as you can, because when you feel nothing, it's just death.

  

  Lena Horne
  • Death
  • Angry

• You never hear about good seafood places.

  

  Curtis Granderson
  • Good

• The global economy is spluttering back into life. The Tories would have left it to choke to death.

  

  Alistair Darling
  • Life
  • Death

• When I'm writing the poem, I feel like I have to close my eyes. I don't mean literally, but you invite a kind of blindness, and that's the birth of the poem.

  

  Eileen Myles
  • Writing
  • Eyes

• I love living in New York.

  

  Chelsea Clinton

• In our fear, we are victims of an aggression of the Future.

  

  Emil Cioran
  • Future
  • Fear

• It's an odd experience reading interviews with yourself. Interesting, though. Of course, you know that the journalist will have edited, rephrased or even rewritten what you actually said, but you can't help feeling that there's a special kind of truth in the way someone else paints you, however subjective they might be.

  

  Bertie Carvel
  • Experience
  • Truth
  • Help

• Today, I'd like to talk to Bob Marley. I'd just like to ask him what was his method. Bob is one of the greatest songwriters ever. I don't know if people understand how powerful his songs are and the simplicity and genius behind them, from 'Redemption Song' to 'Is This Love?' and 'I Shot the Sheriff.'

  

  Bruno Mars
  • People
  • Today
  • Song

• When I started wrestling in the eighth grade, I just fell in love with it, and started shifting my focus more to that. I considered playing in college, but it made more sense for me to wrestle, because I weigh about a buck fifty.

  

  Urijah Christopher Faber
  • College
  • Focus
  • Wrestling

• I realized there are so many steps from getting a deal to having a hit.

  

  Bonnie McKee