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

• I've learned that if I can convince myself to just keep putting one foot in front of the other, then I can run as far as I want to.

  

  Chip Gaines

• I co-founded 'bOING bOING' magazine and the 'Boing Boing Blog' and was an editor at 'Wired' from 1993-1998.

  

  Mark Frauenfelder

• Five decades later, it’s clear that the problem isn’t about race—it is nearly universal. The works of Charles Murray, Robert Putnam, and J. D. Vance show that these tragic developments are not unique to any geographic or ethnic community. The share of white births occurring outside marriage is now roughly three in ten, which is higher than the “emergency” black rate in the 1960s. And although the teen pregnancy rate is down, the Urban Institute’s “Moynihan Report Revisited” pegs the overall share of black births now occurring outside marriage at more than seven in ten. Fourth, we have unhelpfully come to so identify our obligations to teenagers with the institution of secondary schooling that we have lost the collective memory of folks who came of age without schooling as the defining.

  

  Benjamin E. Sasse
  • Community
  • Problem
  • Memory

• Our main goal is to honor God and to honor this country by honoring and serving those families who serve.

  

  Taya Kyle
  • God
  • Country
  • Goal

• For disappointments, that come not by our own folly, they are the trials or corrections of Heaven: and it is our own fault, if they prove not our advantage.

  

  William Penn
  • Heaven
  • Advantage
  • Prove

• The hope of a secure and livable world lies with disciplined nonconformists, who are dedicated to justice, peace and brotherhood. The trailblazers in human, academic, scientific and religious freedom have always been nonconformists. In any cause that concerns the progress of mankind, put your faith in the nonconformist!

  

  Martin Luther King, Jr.
  • Hope
  • Freedom
  • Justice

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

  

  Bonnie McKee