Jill McCorkle Quotes

I like to think I put some of myself in every character.

Jill McCorkle

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• I am tone deaf.

  

  Rachelle Lefevre
  • Deaf

• I think whatever you have in your life, my opinion is that if you know that there's something wrong, you try to fix it.

  

  Daniel Bryan
  • Life
  • Think
  • Know

• My mother did all she could to control me, but at age 14 she sent me to a military school.

  

  Sam Donaldson
  • School
  • She
  • Mother

• You look at a Pete Rose to be the terrific athlete he is and then he falls on hard times, but when he played the game, I got something from the way he played the game because he hustled every play, and just because he had one mistake in his life, am I supposed to throw back everything that I gained from him?

  

  Walter Payton
  • Life
  • Game
  • Mistake

• If somebody says they really like my playing I say thanks a lot.

  

  Zakk Wylde Black Label Society
  • Like
  • Say
  • Thanks

• I achieved what I want to achieve and I want to continue doing something else.

  

  Marat Safin
  • Want
  • Doing
  • Achieve

• I have a company called Earl Campbell Foods. I got into the meat business in 1991.

  

  Earl Campbell
  • Business
  • Company
  • Meat

• I'm a warrior for the middle class.

  

  Barack Obama
  • Class
  • Warrior
  • Middle

• America faces a new race that has awakened.

  

  E. Franklin Frazier
  • America
  • New
  • Race

• I don't understand people who dream in black and white. I just don't get it. My dreams have always been vivid color.

  

  Gary Ross
  • People
  • Dream
  • Black

• No matter that patriotism is too often the refuge of scoundrels. Dissent, rebellion, and all-around hell-raising remain the true duty of patriots.

  

  Barbara Ehrenreich
  • True
  • Patriotism
  • Rebellion

• I eat tons of green veggies to keep my PH balance in check.

  

  Valerie Cruz
  • Balance
  • Green
  • Eat

• Tech never comes back the same.

  

  Samuel J. Palmisano
  • Never
  • Same
  • Back

• Ringside seats mean you hear the breaking of ribs, the splattered cartilage of what was once the boxer's nose, the dislocation of the jaw, the horrifying 'ugggh' that the boxer utters milliseconds after receiving a crushing left hook to the solar plexus or kidneys or head.

  

  Dan Hill
  • Mean
  • Nose
  • Solar

• I have a record I love, 'Limbo,' which is very catchy.

  

  Daddy Yankee
  • Record
  • Very
  • Catchy

• I think from an actor's point of view, you always want something to play that's dramatic or something that feels like it could be very bold in choice. And of course, the boldest possible choice you could play at the end of a character's life is death.

  

  Owain Yeoman
  • Life
  • Character
  • Death

• In all matters of opinion, our adversaries are insane.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Opinion
  • Matters
  • Insane

• Our duty was to try and find the Japanese fleet. We never did find the Japanese fleet and I am awfully glad, because they had attacked us there with six carriers, three battleships, 10 or 15 cruisers, and about 20 destroyers.

  

  Barney Ross
  • Japanese
  • Attacked
  • Destroyers

• I want to emphasize that character in our leaders does matter.

  

  Bill Haslam
  • Character

• Everyone is the sum total of past experiences. A character doesn't just spring to life at age thirty.

  

  Kelley Armstrong
  • Life
  • Character
  • Age

• For example, I was a White House intern the summer before I dropped out of law school. Everybody knew about it. I'd come home and go to church and everybody would say, 'Oh, my God. Demetri, you're working at the White House.'

  

  Demetri Martin
  • God
  • School
  • Home

• Law, in its most general and comprehensive sense, signifies a rule of action; and is applied indiscriminately to all kinds of action, whether animate, or inanimate, rational or irrational. Thus we say, the laws of motion, of gravitation, of optics, or mechanics, as well as the laws of nature and of nations. And it is that rule of action, which is prescribed by some superior, and which the inferior is bound to obey.

  

  William Blackstone
  • Action
  • Kind
  • Irrational

• I like to think I put some of myself in every character.

  

  Jill McCorkle
  • Character