Mercedes McCambridge Quotes

I'd never been in play long enough for the flowers to die in the dressing room

Mercedes McCambridge

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• I always do my interviews face to face.

  

  Rachel Weisz
  • Always
  • Face
  • Interviews

• I love the simplicity and freedom of running. A pair of shoes, and you are all set to explore new trails.

  

  Rachel Boston
  • Love
  • Freedom
  • Running

• Some people feel guilty about their anxieties and regard them as a defect of faith but they are afflictions, not sins. Like all afflictions, they are, if we can so take them, our share in the passion of Christ.

  

  C. S. Lewis
  • People
  • Faith
  • Passion

• Normally I don't watch myself, because I'm not very objective.

  

  Nancy McKeon
  • Myself
  • Watch
  • Objective

• It's funny, though, speaking of fathers and sons, because me and John Goodman played father and son, like, five or six years ago in the film 'Death Sentence,' and I got back with him again in 'Inside Llewyn Davis.'

  

  Garrett Hedlund
  • Father
  • Death
  • Funny

• I use debit cards for everyday purchases, as I don't believe in credit cards. But this has caused problems, especially with American touring, because I refuse to have a credit card - and in America you can't pay for anything on a debit card.

  

  Paloma Faith
  • Believe
  • American
  • America

• In theatre, there's no time for a proper meal.

  

  Tamsin Greig
  • Time
  • Theatre
  • Meal

• Getting your house in order and reducing the confusion gives you more control over your life. Personal organization some how releases or frees you to operate more effectively.

  

  Larry King
  • Life
  • House
  • Control

• When I feel off, I read the 'Tao Te Ching' to get my equilibrium right. I started reading it in the eleventh grade.

  

  Eddie Huang
  • Reading
  • Feel
  • Right

• And when you start talking about the practicality of winning a race like that - you've got to remember we're not talking about winning 51 percent of the vote. We're talking about winning 36, 37, 38 percent of the vote.

  

  Hamilton Jordan
  • Remember
  • Winning
  • Start

• Both parents’ rights must exist primarily to assist the parents in fulfilling their responsibilities. Primarily does not mean exclusively.

  

  Warren Farrell
  • Parents

• Universities think people come up with great ideas by closing the door. The academic tenure process, where you have to publish to journals which are very narrow, stands in the way of great research.

  

  Clayton Christensen
  • People
  • Up
  • Great

• We were so poor as kids. I didn't even see a bathtub, running water, hot water, commode - we didn't have any of that. We started with a humble log house, milk cow, garden-raised our own food, killed a hog every year in the fall, and had the meat hanging up in the smokehouse - that was our childhood, me and ol' Si.

  

  Phil Robertson
  • Up
  • Kids
  • House

• Some of the most innovative things in football I see at high school games. It's not the play - it's when you run it. The right time.

  

  Bud Grant
  • Time
  • School
  • High

• I try to drive my office more as a start-up of ideas.

  

  Kevin McCarthy
  • Up

• The thing about the wacky fans is that they're really sweet.

  

  Margot Kidder
  • Sweet

• I disoriented myself from everything about being a human being and just played and played and played and sang and sang and sang.

  

  Jeff Buckley

• In my book I don't just demonstrate that free enterprise is the most efficient way of organizing an economy - which it is. I also show that it's an expression of American values, and, thus, that a fight for free enterprise is very much a fight for our culture.

  

  Arthur C. Brooks
  • Book
  • American
  • Free

• If the crisis lasts moments, rapid action is critical. But if it's simply the beginning of a broader issue, especially one where the root cause isn't known yet, the worst thing a leader can do is act immediately.

  

  Brad Feld
  • Action
  • Moments
  • Beginning

• When something is truly funny, it's funny all the time.

  

  Cloris Leachman
  • Time
  • Funny

• There was a special challenge in describing the awful childhood of a person who happens to be my own husband. It was very painful at times, for both of us.

  

  Pamela Stephenson
  • Challenge
  • Childhood
  • Husband

• I believe in divine inspiration and things like that and I really relish a good, attentive, participating audience.

  

  John Mahoney
  • Inspiration
  • Audience

• I'd never been in play long enough for the flowers to die in the dressing room

  

  Mercedes McCambridge
  • Funny
  • Flowers
  • Humorous