Jennifer McMahon Quotes

You can have the greatest characters in the world and write beautifully, but if nothing's happening, the story falls on its face pretty quickly.

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• I call myself a feminist, not a feminist filmmaker. If somebody asked me if I had a feminist sensibility it would be pretty hard to deny, but is it the theme of my work? Not necessarily. I'm interested in a lot of things.

  

  Callie Khouri
  • Work
  • Pretty
  • Me

• I don't think there's anything that is a greater area of discrimination against women today than the fact that nowhere in the world is there a female role model in team sports that more than half of a general audience would recognize.

  

  Warren Farrell
  • World
  • Women
  • Today

• Do not hide behind utopian logic which says that until we have the perfect security environment, nuclear disarmament cannot proceed. This is old-think. This is the mentality of the Cold War era. We must face the realities of the 21st century. The Conference on Disarmament can be a driving force for building a safer world and a better future.

  

  Ban Ki-moon
  • World
  • War
  • Future

• When you're climbing at high altitudes, life can get pretty miserable.

  

  Edmund Hillary
  • Life
  • High
  • Pretty

• If there's anything that would unite the world, it would be music.

  

  Leighton Paul Walsh
  • World
  • Music
  • Unite

• White Americans today don't know what in the world to do because when they put us behind them, that's where they made their mistake... they put us behind them, and we watched every move they made.

  

  Fannie Lou Hamer
  • World
  • Today
  • Mistake

• I would like to spend Christmas in different countries all over the world. I love seeing how different cultures celebrate the holidays in their own unique ways.

  

  Mallory Jansen
  • World
  • Love
  • Countries

• When you use the word 'fair' in television, you're already in a fantasy world. Nothing is really fair in television.

  

  Larry Wilmore
  • World
  • Television
  • Fair

• Let us remember: One book, one pen, one child, and one teacher can change the world.

  

  Malala Yousafzai
  • World
  • Book
  • Remember

• May books spread the world over!

  

  Yann Martel
  • World
  • May
  • Books

• One of the biggest mistakes a photographer can make is to look at the real world and cling to the vain hope that next time his film will somehow bear a closer resemblance to it.

  

  Galen Rowell
  • Time
  • World
  • Real

• I don't burn any calories trying to be masculine; I just happen to be from that world.

  

  Adam Carolla
  • World
  • Trying
  • Happen

• When you tour with a band, you're just out there, and it's just you guys. That's your little universe. If you do a play, it's the same deal. That becomes your world, for the cast and crew.

  

  Katey Sagal
  • World
  • Universe
  • Band

• If you read history you will find that the Christians who did most for the present world were precisely those who thought most of the next. It is since Christians have largely ceased to think of the other world that they have become so ineffective in this.

  

  C. S. Lewis
  • World
  • History
  • Present

• I was pretty much a hippie. I was a vegetarian, gypsy-like. I liked to meditate, and it's curious because I was very much attracted to the possibility of change.

  

  Laura Esquivel
  • Pretty
  • Change
  • Curious

• When you take the world record, a lot of people are going to go out there to get you, really. I kind of enjoy that. I like being chased.

  

  Adam Peaty
  • People
  • World
  • Enjoy

• The most sought-after candidates in the world today by companies like mine are people who make computer software - there's a shortage of talent.

  

  Xavier Niel
  • People
  • World
  • Today

• The thing with me is, about that - about rock and all that - years and years of crate-digging, listening to old music, you kind of start to connect the dots. And I was seeing the thread that was connecting everything together, which is pretty much the blues. And everything soul or funk kind of starts with that.

  

  D'Angelo
  • Music
  • Together
  • Soul

• Any rehearsal process - I find, anyway - does have quite an effect on me, and I very much live in that world for the whole period of time that I'm involved with the production. But normally, afterwards with a little bit of space, I can come right back out of it again.

  

  Laura Donnelly
  • Time
  • World
  • Live

• Who is Jesus to me? Jesus is the Word made Flesh. Jesus is the Bread of Life. Jesus is the Victim offered for our sins on the cross. Jesus is the sacrifice offered at holy Mass for the sins of the world and for mine. Jesus is the Word - to be spoken. Jesus is the Truth - to be told. Jesus is the Way - to be walked. Jesus is the Light - to be lit. Jesus is the Life - to be lived. Jesus is the Love - to be loved

  

  Mother Teresa
  • World
  • Jesus
  • Sacrifice

• If the American people have their health care paid for by the government, depending on their age and their condition, they will be subject to a health commission just like in England which will decide if their lives are worth living much longer.

  

  Nat Hentoff
  • Government
  • Health care
  • American People

• Two men look out the same prison bars; one sees mud and the other stars.

  

  Beck
  • Men
  • Stars
  • Prison

• I'm a believer in the parent first, friend second philosophy, and trying to find that balance.

  

  Jenna Fischer
  • Trying
  • Friend
  • Balance

• You can have the greatest characters in the world and write beautifully, but if nothing's happening, the story falls on its face pretty quickly.

  

  Jennifer McMahon
  • World
  • Pretty