Nick McDonell (Robert Nicholas "Nick" McDonell) Quotes

In the beginning of college I wanted to be an English major, but then I became interested in international relations.

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• Thanks to the Japanese and Geronimo, John Wayne became a millionaire.

  

  Pat Morita
  • Thanks
  • Japanese
  • Became

• I'm not a good rapper. For whatever reason, my brain does not work that way. I just do the beginning, like, 'Yeah, yeah! Ha ha! Woo! What up? Come on! Get at me!' I'm Captain Hook.

  

  Adam DeVine
  • Up
  • Good
  • Work

• We started by playing girls who only married at the end of the picture. We didn't play wives. That came later. But the most dreadful thing was when a star had to play a mother. That was the beginning of her professional end.

  

  Lana Turner
  • Mother
  • Beginning
  • Star

• A lot of technologies in the world were unusual in the beginning, and became standard. That's the beauty of bottom-up entrepreneurship and innovations.

  

  Iqbal Quadir
  • Up
  • World
  • Beginning

• From the very beginning, I always tried to make dialogue flow comfortably; I always did that to make it seem more authentic.

  

  Eddie Murphy
  • Always
  • Beginning
  • Flow

• People were already beginning to forget, what horrible suffering the war had brought them. I did not want to cause fear and panic, but to let people know how dreadful war is and so to stimulate people's powers of resistance.

  

  Otto Dix
  • People
  • War
  • Fear

• I was nervous from the very beginning, and it got worse as the years went on. I was conscientious and wanted to do more, always, than I was able. I don't think, when I was playing, that I was ever happy - beginning at 4 o'clock any afternoon.

  

  Katharine Cornell
  • Happy
  • Think
  • Beginning

• My writing has changed a lot. From 16 to 19, I've changed a lot. My kind of writing in the beginning was very observational; now it's grown very personal for me. I use it as a diary in many ways.

  

  Oliver Sim The xx
  • Writing
  • Me
  • Beginning

• 'Divergent' was my utopian world. I mean, that wasn't the plan. I never even set out to write dystopian fiction, that's just what I had when I was finished. At the beginning, I was just writing about a place I found interesting and a character with a compelling story, and as I began to build the world, I realized that it was my utopia.

  

  Veronica Roth
  • World
  • Writing
  • Character

• In the beginning of the war, Southern women wanted their men to leave - in droves, and as quickly as possible. They were the Confederate Army's most persuasive and effective recruitment officers, shaming anyone who shirked his duty to fight.

  

  Karen Abbott
  • Men
  • Women
  • War

• I became a people-watcher when I lost all my friends when I was 12.

  

  Taylor Swift
  • People
  • Friends
  • Lost

• I'm not even close to where I want to be; it's just a little mini step on the way. This is only the beginning.

  

  Zara Larsson
  • Want
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  • Step

• Year's end is neither an end nor a beginning but a going on, with all the wisdom that experience can instill in us.

  

  Hal Borland
  • Experience
  • Wisdom
  • Beginning

• We grow tyrannical fighting tyranny... The most alarming spectacle today is not the spectacle of the atomic bomb in an unfederated world, it is the spectacle of the Americans beginning to accept the device of loyalty oaths and witchhunts, beginning to call anybody they don't like a Communist.

  

  E. B. White
  • World
  • Today
  • Fighting

• Vanity was the beginning and the end of Sir Walter Elliot's character; vanity of person and of situation.

  

  Vanity
  • Character
  • Beginning

• Turbulence is the beginning of a fruitful process of transformation.

  

  Indra Nooyi
  • Beginning
  • Transformation

• Take control of your image, your branding, from the beginning. It even includes how you dress, since people judge you that way.

  

  Craig Newmark
  • People
  • Control
  • Beginning

• I love that there's a beginning, middle and end to a film and you can craft what the whole journey is going to look like.

  

  Jennifer Carpenter
  • Beginning
  • Journey

• I think there's a tendency for actors like myself, and I don't mean to generalize myself, but I've played 'men's men,' if you will, characters that are simmering rage and calculated. There's a trend not to play anything that is opposed to that.

  

  Idris Elba
  • Men
  • Think
  • Myself

• I did not walk every step of the Trail of Tears at one time. Instead, over the last 20 years, I have walked various segments of it in Georgia, Kentucky, Tennessee, North Carolina, Arkansas, Missouri and Oklahoma.

  

  Joseph Bruchac
  • Time
  • Tears

• Occasionally a roast master needs to get out of Dodge.

  

  Jeff Ross

• I think a construction project for me is like writing a novel. I can't do the project unless I can envision sort of the whole structure and see what the end result might be.

  

  David Bergen
  • Writing

• The Dodgers to me are the Yankees of the National League.

  

  Joe Torre

• In the beginning of college I wanted to be an English major, but then I became interested in international relations.

  

  Nick McDonell
  • Beginning
  • Relations
  • Became