Jill McCorkle Quotes

Sometimes I do feel like I write the same story again and again. And for me, I am always looking for a place with a kind of redemption.

Jill McCorkle

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• I'm an artist; I'm not going to use trigonometry.

  

  Taylor Momsen
  • Artist
  • Use
  • Going

• It's one thing to have forced time off as an actor, and another thing when you actually say, 'I don't want to read anything, and I don't want to talk to anybody.'

  

  Laura Dern
  • Time
  • Want
  • Actor

• By taking responsibility for how you choose to respond to anything or anyone, you're aligning yourself with the beautiful dance of life.

  

  Wayne Dyer
  • Life
  • Beautiful
  • Responsibility

• Long after the bomb falls and you and your good deeds are gone, cockroaches will still be here, prowling the streets like armored cars.

  

  Tama Janowitz
  • Good
  • Long
  • You

• The one thing you can ask, I think, is that actors get paid a living wage. I would like it if all the repertory theatres that currently exist could do that. It would make a huge difference.

  

  Ian Mckellen
  • Think
  • You
  • Difference

• I think I'm bad luck for Tiger because he missed the cut in Charlotte with me. But yeah, those are two of the best players of all time. Tiger's the best player of all time in my opinion, so when he's not in the field, it's a relief because he's such a great player.

  

  Webb Simpson
  • Time
  • Great
  • Bad

• What I would like to be remembered for is that Walter Washington changed the spirit of the people of this city, that he came in as mayor when there was hate and greed and misunderstanding among our people and the races were polarized.

  

  Walter Washington
  • People
  • Hate
  • City

• I began modeling in N.Y. and doing commercials. That led to regional theatre and then Broadway and then movies.

  

  Ian Ziering
  • Theatre
  • Movies
  • Modeling

• It's hard to write a comedy sketch.

  

  Kate McKinnon
  • Comedy
  • Write
  • Sketch

• I do want people to see me as a well-rounded actress, not just someone who plays in 'Turtle' movies.

  

  Paige Turco
  • People
  • Movies
  • Actress

• I clean up really well. I can get dolled up.

  

  Queen Latifah
  • Up
  • I Can
  • Clean

• What kills a skunk is the publicity it gives itself.

  

  Abraham Lincoln
  • Publicity
  • Itself
  • Skunk

• The real hero is always a hero by mistake; he dreams of being an honest coward like everybody else.

  

  Umberto Eco
  • Real
  • Mistake
  • Hero

• My name is Zach Galifianakis and I hope I'm pronouncing that right. I'm named after my granddad, my middle name. My name is Zach Granddad Galifianakis.

  

  Zach Galifianakis
  • Hope
  • Name
  • Middle

• In Japan, a company worker's position is secure. He is retrained for another job if his present job is eliminated by productivity improvement.

  

  W. Edwards Deming
  • Job
  • Present
  • Company

• We all have idols. Play like anyone you care about but try to be yourself while you're doing so.

  

  B. B. King
  • Yourself
  • Doing
  • Be Yourself

• You don't have any civil liberties if you're dead.

  

  Pat Roberts

• 'They cripple the bird's wing, and then condemn it for not flying as fast as they.'

  

  Malcolm X
  • Bird
  • Flying

• I'm not really a big X's and O's guy, but if you want to go there, I'm more of a space-the-floor type of coach: Five out, zero in, and that's the way we play basketball, screen and roll here and there, pocket passes everywhere; it's what it's about.

  

  Kyrie Irving
  • Guy
  • Space
  • Basketball

• You reduce illegal immigration by making it harder to get jobs here, or easier to get jobs south of the border. This idea that we can't pass an immigration law until we hit some imaginary security target is just a way to derail reform.

  

  Gail Collins
  • Law
  • Security
  • Immigration

• I do think that's so much a part of what being a director is - in working with actors - to really try and be sensitive to what each actor needs to get to where he wants to be.

  

  Bill Condon

• It is necessary to stay on the march, to be on the journey, to work for peace wherever we are at all times, because the liberty we cherish, which we would share with the world, demands eternal vigilance.

  

  Ossie Davis
  • Work
  • Peace
  • Journey

• Sometimes I do feel like I write the same story again and again. And for me, I am always looking for a place with a kind of redemption.

  

  Jill McCorkle