Bryant H. McGill Quotes

Architects of grandeur are often the master builders of disillusionment.

Bryant H. McGill

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• I feel at home in a lot of places, but I am truly an African-American.

  

  Yaya DaCosta
  • Home
  • Places
  • African-American

• I started making music for fun, but I had two parents who were very much in the business. I didn't run around trying to get the spotlight. I was very shy. I never sang in front of people 'til I was about 17 years old.

  

  Caitlin Rose
  • People
  • Music
  • Trying

• My father passed away in 1942, and three-four months after his death, I had to start working. There was a responsibility on my shoulders to run the household. It was my duty as the eldest child in the house.

  

  Lata Mangeshkar
  • Father
  • Death
  • House

• 'Air' is very placeless - it's set in many different countries, and much of the story is about going places rather than being places. 'Air' is about travelers, and I'm a chronic traveler.

  

  G. Willow Wilson
  • Different
  • Air
  • Story

• I have absolutely no empathy for camels. I didn't care for being abused in the Middle East by those horrible, horrible, horrible creatures. They don't like people. It's not at all like the relationship between horses and humans.

  

  Rachel Weisz
  • People
  • Relationship
  • Care

• The musical has always been in jeopardy - until - or was in jeopardy until it was realised that it is probably the safest living theatre art form.

  

  Harold Prince
  • Art
  • Always
  • Theatre

• Secrecy is one of the shadier sides of private and public life.

  

  Ian Hacking
  • Life
  • Public
  • Sides

• I had decent but not great grades in high school because I was highly motivated in some subjects, like the arts, drama, English, and history, but in math and science I was a screw-up. Wooster saw something in me, and I really flourished there. I got into theatre, took photography and painting classes.

  

  J. C. Chandor
  • Up
  • Great
  • School

• The collective judgment of the electorate must be respected.

  

  Indira Gandhi
  • Judgment
  • Collective

• I'd seen all the great entertainers by the time I was 14 or 15. My mother was artistic. My father was a bookmaker, so he had access to all those nightclubs, and he was smitten by certain artists, and we would go see them. We'd see comics like Sid Caesar and Milton Berle - those kind of artists - many of whom I worked with later in my life.

  

  Lainie Kazan
  • Life
  • Time
  • Great

• I had great mentors in my parents who always sought to understand the world around them. And they would push me to really think things through.

  

  Mae Jemison
  • World
  • Great
  • Parents

• Once I'm awake, I'm awake, which helps when you have to run in the mornings.

  

  Kai Ryssdal
  • You
  • Run
  • Once

• I tend to not discriminate when it comes to people I can learn from. Basically, if someone has built a meaningful business in software, technology or media, faced disruption and adversity, and overcame underdog status, I want to know how they did it.

  

  Aaron Levie
  • People
  • Business
  • Technology

• Success is getting what you want. Happiness is wanting what you get.

  

  Dale Carnegie
  • Want
  • Success
  • Happiness

• I did no research on 'The Best Man.' That was something that came out from my own head.

  

  Malcolm D. Lee
  • Man
  • Best
  • Research

• Every stylish man should have a copy of 'The Fountainhead' by Ayn Rand on his bookshelf.

  

  Orlando Bloom
  • Man
  • Copy
  • Stylish

• Seeing your baby in pain and seeing them crying and that sort of thing, and you're tired, and you can do nothing about it - that's, like, one of the most demoralizing things I can think of.

  

  Daniel Bryan
  • Pain
  • Baby
  • Tired

• Life cannot subsist in society but by reciprocal concessions.

  

  Samuel Johnson
  • Life
  • Society
  • Reciprocal

• Now, a fancy ball is bad enough in London, where milliners are many, and where theatres have costumes that may be borrowed or copied ; but in the country, where people are left to their own devices-truly to them may be applied the old poet's account of murderers, 'their fancies are all frightful.'

  

  Letitia Elizabeth Landon
  • People
  • Country
  • May

• For me, as an actress, being a dancer has helped me. I've done it with my feet bloody.

  

  Elizabeth Berkley
  • Done
  • Feet
  • Actress

• My dad is Scottish, and he read in the newspaper about the plight of the Scottish Freshwater Mussel, which is a real thing - like, a very real, serious conservation issue. And he's a writer, and he was going to do a film about a Glaswegian gangster, and then I stole the idea and turned it into a romantic comedy.

  

  Talulah Riley
  • Real
  • Dad
  • Comedy

• Good people strengthen themselves ceaselessly.

  

  Confucius
  • People
  • Strengthen
  • Ceaselessly

• I think my first album was a gift for my birthday and a Faith Hill album; I loved her.

  

  Sara Sampaio
  • First
  • Gift
  • Birthday

• Architects of grandeur are often the master builders of disillusionment.

  

  Bryant H. McGill