Michael Cunningham Quotes

we become the stories we tell ourselves

Michael Cunningham

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• No one expected me to become a champion.

  

  Fedor Emelianenko
  • Me
  • Champion
  • Become

• When a system of oppression has become institutionalized it is unnecessary for individuals to be oppressive.

  

  Florynce Kennedy
  • System
  • Become
  • Oppression

• The one thing I will never do is become pigeonholed.

  

  Vin Diesel
  • Never
  • Will
  • Become

• Far too many executives have become more concerned with the 'four P's' - pay, perks, power and prestige - rather than making profits for shareholders.

  

  T. Boone Pickens
  • Power
  • Become
  • Far

• As I have got older, I have become easier on myself. It's about realising things can't be perfect.

  

  Harriet Walter
  • Perfect
  • Myself
  • Become

• Fairy tales are stories of triumph and transformation and true love, all things I fervently believe in.

  

  Kate Forsyth
  • Believe
  • Stories
  • Triumph

• Ten million dollars after I'd become a star I was deeply in debt.

  

  Sammy Davis, Jr.
  • Star
  • Become
  • Debt

• It's a fairly recent thing but I've become very fond of making drinks myself.

  

  Utada Hikaru
  • Myself
  • Very
  • Become

• So, I guess motherhood and the threat of not being able to pay my rent inspired me to be a novelist. But as far as what inspired me to be a writer, it's the stories. It sounds very cliched, but the stories rise up and demand to be told. They always have done, long before I became a writer.

  

  Gayle Forman
  • Me
  • Inspired
  • Stories

• I chase after inspiring stories.

  

  Vera Farmiga
  • Stories
  • Inspiring
  • Chase

• If I hadn't been a model, I couldn't have become a movie actress.

  

  Olga Kurylenko
  • Movie
  • Model
  • Become

• I love coming of age stories that have struggle.

  

  Aaron Paul
  • Age
  • Struggle
  • Stories

• For me, it's not an option to despair. The question is: what can we do to make someone's life better? Take the unimaginable strides made in places like Bosnia, where I cut my teeth, and Rwanda. Their stories aren't perfect, but I wouldn't have dreamt they could happen in a million years.

  

  Samantha Power
  • Life
  • Perfect
  • Stories

• Without deadlines and restrictions I just tend to become preoccupied with other things.

  

  Val Kilmer
  • Become
  • Without
  • Deadlines

• When I moved to Los Angeles, I figured I'm really going to make an attempt to become a real actor. And when I did that, I thought it was time for me to face my parents and tell them what I did.

  

  Kenneth Choi
  • Actor
  • Become
  • Moved To

• The best author will be the one who is ashamed to become a writer.

  

  Friedrich Nietzsche
  • Author
  • Writer
  • Become

• It's great hearing stories of my mum growing up in Brooklyn, then moving to Florida, having me and growing up with this eccentric, fun family. Although I don't eat a lot of Italian things, because I'm vegan. I was raised on meat and cheese, so I've had enough for anyone's normal life span.

  

  Ariana Grande
  • Life
  • Up
  • Great

• We got ourselves into a position to win the game and we let ourselves down again. It's not good enough.

  

  Eddie Charles Jones
  • Good
  • Game
  • Position

• '9 to 5,' that little song, that little story, just won't ever end. Just like 'I Will Always Love You,' it just keeps comin' back, popping up its head in one way or another.

  

  Dolly Parton
  • Stories
  • Littles
  • Ends

• I had three attorneys dedicated solely to find the statistic of the number of missing Native American women on reservations. Any reservation, not just 'Wind River.' They don't exist. The federal government, which is responsible for the reservations, don't keep those stats.

  

  Taylor Sheridan
  • Women
  • American
  • Wind

• It is music that causes the heart to broaden and the listener to grow cold with ecstasy and fright.

  

  Carson McCullers
  • Heart
  • Cold
  • Ecstasy

• I changed the city of New York. I gave people back their morale.

  

  Ed Koch
  • People
  • City
  • New York

• I think what we have seen in terms of gay teenagers committing suicide because of bullying is anguishing. I think young people, if they are feeling like they are confused, need to know that there are people to talk to and that there are places they can go and not feel alone. But I feel that they have just as many rights as I do to not be bullied.

  

  Kevin Spacey
  • People
  • Feeling
  • Alone

• we become the stories we tell ourselves

  

  Michael Cunningham
  • Stories
  • Become
  • Ourselves