Steven Rodney McQueen Quotes

I'm a filmmaker, so I always think: When is the breaking point? Sometimes you've got to go beyond the breaking point, and then you catch it. When is long enough? It's one of those things you have to look at, walk away, and go home and find out what it is.

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• I made a lot of money, and I want to give something back to my country.

  

  Xavier Niel
  • Country
  • Money
  • Want

• Working with the cast of 'Glee' was inspiring. To be around a group of kids who work so hard and love what they do is so refreshing.

  

  Tate Donovan
  • Work
  • Love
  • Kids

• I have to change a lot of things before I become a good marathon runner.

  

  Haile Gebrselassie
  • Good
  • Change
  • Marathon

• I was never that kid who used to brag about anything.

  

  Aaron Taylor-Johnson
  • Never
  • Kid
  • Used

• I enjoyed working as a model a lot as it let me travel and I got to do some really interesting projects.

  

  Patricia Velasquez
  • Interesting
  • Me
  • Travel

• Another occupation might have been better.

  

  F. H. Bradley
  • Better
  • Been
  • Occupation

• The people will save their government, if the government itself will allow them.

  

  Abraham Lincoln
  • People
  • Government
  • Save

• Always write as if you are talking to someone. It works. Don't put on any fancy phrases or accents or things you wouldn't say in real life.

  

  Maeve Binchy
  • Life
  • Real
  • Always

• I was thrilled one year when I was younger when not only did my brothers get hockey sticks for Christmas - but I did too!

  

  Nancy Kerrigan
  • Christmas
  • Year
  • Hockey

• I've found that entrepreneurial success usually comes through great execution, simply by doing a superior job of doing the blocking and tackling.

  

  Naveen Jain
  • Great
  • Job
  • Success

• To me hair dressing means shape. It's very important that the foundations should be right.

  

  Vidal Sassoon
  • Important
  • Me
  • Hair

• Jim Thompson understood something about the serial killer before the psychology caught up to it, which is that they are detached to it and they do want to get caught.

  

  Val Kilmer
  • Up
  • Want
  • Something

• You know, we're really destroying ourselves because we're really making the motivating force of anything we do selfish.

  

  Ralph Steadman
  • You
  • Know
  • Selfish

• Rock and Roll has no beginning and no end for it is the very pulse of life itself.

  

  Larry Williams
  • Life
  • Rock
  • Beginning

• We're fortunate enough to live on a planet that's bathed in thousands of times more energy than we use and that's stocked with thousands of times more water, raw materials, and even food-growing potential than we need.

  

  Ramez Naam
  • Live
  • Energy
  • Growing

• I have been running since I was 7. I was trying to restructure the way my body was made instead of trying to master the way I ran. I would get so frustrated with my starts in practices that I would just cry. When I ran, I wouldn't even try to get out of the blocks, I would just run.

  

  Florence Griffith Joyner
  • Trying
  • Running
  • Body

• In this situation I was constantly exposed to danger and death.

  

  Daniel Boone
  • Death
  • Situation
  • Danger

• If cattle and horses, or lions, had hands, or were able to draw with their feet and produce the works which men do, horses would draw the forms of gods like horses, and cattle like cattle, and they would make the gods' bodies the same shape as their own.

  

  Xenophanes
  • Men
  • Hands
  • Feet

• You learn how to be an individual quick after 15 schools, man. After the first five or six, you realize you're always gonna be the new kid.

  

  Yelawolf
  • Man
  • Always
  • Learn

• Fear is static that prevents me from hearing myself.

  

  Samuel Butler
  • Fear
  • Me
  • Myself

• Staying chaste until marriage, a commandment of my faith, was one of the most difficult challenges of my young life. I had a powerful sense that if I did not get a grip on my identity, my ethics, and my religion, I would go off the rails.

  

  Feisal Abdul Rauf
  • Life
  • Faith
  • Powerful

• I strive to be brief, and I become obscure.

  

  Baltasar Gracian
  • Become
  • Strive
  • Obscure

• Art should not have to be a certain way.

  

  Willem de Kooning
  • Art
  • Way
  • Should

• I'm a filmmaker, so I always think: When is the breaking point? Sometimes you've got to go beyond the breaking point, and then you catch it. When is long enough? It's one of those things you have to look at, walk away, and go home and find out what it is.

  

  Steven Rodney McQueen
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  • Walk
  • Filmmaker