Brownie McGhee Quotes

I was playing with steel picks on a steel guitar, and there was no amplification needed.

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• If there's an opportunity for me to compete at something, I'm there.

  

  Daniel Cormier
  • Opportunity
  • Me
  • Compete

• I moved about 45 minutes from West Hollywood, and I live surrounded by nature and the wilderness, but I constantly find myself walking around, like in the commercial, saying, 'Can you hear me now?'

  

  Olga Fonda
  • Live
  • Nature
  • Myself

• I've never cared for the idea of a career path, or where a film might 'take me.' My love is for acting not money, so I only take on roles that I find challenging, in stories I find interesting.

  

  Gael Garcia Bernal
  • Money
  • Career
  • Interesting

• It is the woman - nearly always - in spite of all the advances of modern feminism, who still takes responsibility for the bulk of the chores, as well as doing her paid job. This is true even in households where men try to be unselfish and to do their share.

  

  A. N. Wilson
  • Men
  • Job
  • True

• You know, we're really destroying ourselves because we're really making the motivating force of anything we do selfish.

  

  Ralph Steadman
  • You
  • Know
  • Selfish

• Working with Mario Testino was a joy. He's very young spirited, and it's always lovely and a pleasure to spend time talking to him about all different things.

  

  Cara Delevingne
  • Time
  • Different
  • Joy

• One of the side benefits of staying in the closet is you can have a much bigger career.

  

  Edmund White
  • Career
  • You
  • Benefits

• I think a lot of officers go into that line of work because they have a calling for it. But at some point, they find themselves in the middle of their lives having seen some of the darkest things that are just unimaginable to the rest of us.

  

  Sam Jaeger
  • Work
  • Think
  • Rest

• Therapists have tremendous power over their vulnerable clients, and it is very easy to take advantage of this power.

  

  Kate Christensen
  • Power
  • Easy
  • Take Advantage

• No one has a right to comment on anyone's life or the choices I do or don't make.

  

  Kate Winslet
  • Life
  • Choices
  • Right

• My goal is just to make movies, whether they're big or small, that I'd like to see 10 years from now.

  

  Viggo Mortensen
  • Small
  • Goal
  • Movies

• I have this concept that I call 'Combo Meals.' The idea is that I start with the kids' meal and then add a few more ingredients, and it becomes the adult meal. This way I'm not making two entirely separate dishes. I'm just simply adding on to what I'm already making.

  

  Tamra Davis
  • Kids
  • Way
  • Start

• I love the idea of the 'vignette,' which is associated with the decorative, illustrative, small, and thus with the feminine, and thus easily maligned. I mean, Emily Dickinson wrote vignettes, right?

  

  Kate Bernheimer
  • Mean
  • Idea
  • Feminine

• How do you grow up in the shadow of a guy - I want to talk about the movie in a second - but how do you grow up in the shadow of a guy who really is a legend in his own time?

  

  Tavis Smiley
  • Up
  • Time
  • Movie

• I write for no other purpose than to add to the beauty that now belongs to me. I write a book for no other reason than to add three or four hundred acres to my magnificent estate.

  

  Jack London
  • Book
  • Purpose
  • Beauty

• I hated being a novelist when I was 20 - I had nothing to write about.

  

  A. S. Byatt
  • Write
  • Nothing
  • Hated

• I would have tested the furniture if they'd asked me.

  

  Karen Morley
  • Me
  • Asked
  • Tested

• I pay a lot of attention to box office because I understand it. TV ratings? I don't know how to interpret them, since I'm new to TV, so I'm just going to wait for somebody to tell me.

  

  Oren Peli
  • Know
  • Attention
  • Understand

• The political dismemberment of these once British colonies from the parent island, though involving a valuable principle, and many possible results, would scarcely merit a yearly commemoration, even in this country, had it not been accompanied by other occurrences more novel, and far more important.

  

  Frances Wright
  • Important
  • Country
  • Political

• In your twenties, if you have any amount of complexity in your childhood, or any trauma that you haven't dealt with, it comes out. That's why you have a lot of artists that don't make it through.

  

  Jeremy Sisto
  • Why
  • Childhood

• I definitely believe in a God and in a higher power, and I definitely take from many different religious cultures. I go to church.

  

  Jane Seymour
  • God
  • Believe
  • Different

• Burton Cummings joining the Guess Who in January 1966 changed my life forever. It's been a rocky affiliation, no doubt. One journalist once described our relationship as the longest running soap opera in Canadian history. That may be a bit oversimplified.

  

  Randy Bachman The Guess Who
  • Life
  • May
  • History

• Those who have courage to love should have courage to suffer.

  

  Anthony Trollope
  • Courage

• I was playing with steel picks on a steel guitar, and there was no amplification needed.

  

  Brownie McGhee