Erin McKean Quotes

Experiences is just paying attention as time passes.

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• Listen: our culture is saturated with irony whether we know it or not.

  

  Barbara Kruger
  • Culture
  • Know
  • Irony

• I don't think anyone should write their autobiography until after they're dead.

  

  Samuel Goldwyn
  • Think
  • Funny
  • Should

• I like to go to Africa purely with something to do. I'm not very comfortable getting into an armor-plated Land Rover and going to see things, with my hand gel, you know, it's not me at all. So I like to hang out and you know, really get to know people and try and do something that resonates with them.

  

  Damon Albarn Gorillaz
  • People
  • Know
  • Hand

• You're going to have some ups and downs, so you have to prepare yourself to be ready. Those down moments come.

  

  Pablo Sandoval
  • Moments
  • Yourself
  • Ups And Downs

• When we say a show is successful, it's because, relative to the investment, it's successful, relative to how else we would have spent that money on licensing something else, does this creation - did it attract the audience that it was built for.

  

  Ted Sarandos
  • Money
  • Successful
  • Creation

• Before Booker T. Washington, we have small business owners but we do not have a philosopher of black entrepreneurship, and that's what Washington was.

  

  Ed Smith
  • Business
  • Black
  • Small

• I owe it all to Jesus.

  

  Aaron Neville
  • Jesus
  • Owe

• I wear the national dress because it is the most natural and the most becoming for an Indian.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • Natural
  • Dress
  • National

• If particular care and attention is not paid to the ladies, we are determined to foment a rebellion, and will not hold ourselves bound by any laws in which we have no voice, or representation.

  

  Abigail Adams
  • Attention
  • Care
  • Voice

• My husband wrote the story for my first book, but then he didn't want to do that anymore. So if I was going to go on being an illustrator, I had to start writing the stories, too.

  

  Natalie Babbitt
  • Writing
  • Book
  • Husband

• I like to read in the bathtub. Ideally, that bathtub would be located on a small Greek island.

  

  Adam Mansbach
  • Small
  • Like
  • Greek

• I always try not to overload my music with orchestration and to use only those instruments that are absolutely necessary.

  

  Abel Korzeniowski
  • Music
  • Always
  • Try

• When I sit down to write a novel, I am exploring my own relationship with God, with the struggle between good and evil, my own purpose.

  

  Ted Dekker
  • Good
  • God
  • Relationship

• I was just never discouraged from doing something wacky like trying to be a comedian.

  

  Kate McKinnon
  • Trying
  • Never
  • Doing

• Leadership is one of the things I really strive to excel in in my life.

  

  Nate Parker
  • Life
  • Leadership
  • My Life

• I really love hip hop. My cousin Nas came out with an album 'Life Is Good,' and I love that album, but I also love Maroon 5.

  

  Yara Shahidi
  • Life
  • Good
  • Album

• When I was growing up watching Marilyn Monroe, I learned that you can be very beautiful, very glamorous and very vulnerable and not give up your soul just because you were a movie star.

  

  Sally Kirkland
  • Up
  • Movie
  • Soul

• I always design a landscape with fixed horizons whether it be mountains or a stone wall around a 20-foot-square plot.

  

  Rachel Lambert Mellon
  • Design
  • Wall
  • Mountains

• There's so many people who have never heard of us, but I think what we've learned is you can't underestimate the power of a core fan base and people who believe what you're doing. I think they're the ultimate marketers. They're the ones promoting us.

  

  Tyler Joseph Twenty One Pilots
  • People
  • Believe
  • Power

• Being a singer is a way for me to get to a platform to do more.

  

  Chaka Khan

• Which, I wonder, brother reader, is the better lot, to die prosperous and famous, or poor and disappointed? To have, and to be forced to yield; or to sink out of life, having played and lost the game? That must be a strange feeling, when a day of our life comes and we say, 'To-morrow, success or failure won't matter much; and the sun will rise, and all the myriads of mankind go to their work or their pleasure as usual, but I shall be out of the turmoil.'

  

  William Makepeace Thackeray
  • Wonder
  • Feelings
  • Brother

• As far as trying to analyze all the attention I received, I will leave that to others.

  

  John Glenn
  • Trying
  • Attention

• Experiences is just paying attention as time passes.

  

  Erin McKean
  • Attention
  • Passes