Michael McKean Quotes

Those people that you know for a long time and that you love, they're the easiest to talk to.

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• I have no child to inherit my properties. You, the people, are my only family, and to make you happy is the reason I do politics.

  

  Park Geun-hye
  • People
  • Family
  • Happy

• Because I'm so in the eye of the hurricane, I don't have a really good perception of what's happening. I'm in a room talking to people, and that's all I know. But sometimes I go out of these rooms - I live in L.A., and every now and then, maybe twice a week, I'll be somewhere, and someone will say, 'Hey, are you the guy that made Moonlight?'

  

  Barry Jenkins
  • People
  • Good
  • Live

• People would ask me why I was doing what I was doing – but I always told them that I just loved to skate. There was no other explanation.

  

  Nancy Kerrigan
  • People
  • Loved
  • Explanation

• Most of my job life has had to do with welfare, first helping people find work and then as an administrator. The earlier experience was more direct and satisfying, and I enjoy thinking that a bunch of people somewhere are doing better today than they might have done if not for me.

  

  Gail Carson Levine
  • People
  • Life
  • Work

• My father went to work by train every day. It was half an hour's journey each way, and he would read a paperback in four journeys. After supper, we all sat down to read - it was long before TV, remember!

  

  Maeve Binchy
  • Work
  • Long
  • Remember

• I'm one of those people that is up for most things. When I was offered to sing at the Oscars I was like, 'Yeah, I want to know what that's like!' I'm always curious to know what things are like - as long as you're not compromising who you are.

  

  Florence Welch Florence and the Machine
  • People
  • Up
  • Long

• There are men and women still on the streets, and that's all they are saying Can you spare a quarter? I come from a crowd of people who were current on the outlook on life, who were social and knew where they were and had some input into how things seemed to be.

  

  Abbey Lincoln
  • People
  • Life
  • Men

• People don't realize that now is all there ever is; there is no past or future except as memory or anticipation in your mind.

  

  Eckhart Tolle
  • People
  • Mind
  • Future

• I worked with fantastic actors, fantastic directors. People I would never otherwise have met. Was I limited? Yes. Did I use it as I could have? No. But I was always ambivalent about Hollywood and what I wanted. And ambivalence in our business is no good for success.

  

  Valeria Golino
  • People
  • Good
  • Business

• I think we're getting to the point where everyone's getting fat and everyone's getting allergic, or claims to be allergic to something and people can't walk from their front door to their car without a bottle of water in their hand because they have to hydrate every three and half steps.

  

  Adam Carolla
  • People
  • Hand
  • Water

• I'm still a student of fashion, but I like hooking up with the people that really know how to make cool clothes.

  

  Olivia Wilde
  • People
  • Up
  • Fashion

• Twelve years ago, if someone attacked me, I wouldn't let them get away with it. I'd take them on. I now perceive my job to include allowing people to vent their rage.

  

  Ed Koch
  • People
  • Job
  • Away

• It's kind of exhilarating, walking through a crazy, insane mob. The most miraculous process is watching a song go from a tiny idea in the middle of the night to something that 55,000 people are singing back to you.

  

  Taylor Swift
  • People
  • Song
  • Night

• I have no direct knowledge of this, but I suspect that Apple will launch a living room product that redefines people's expectations really strongly, and the notion of a separate console platform will disappear concurrent with Apple's announcement.

  

  Gabe Newell
  • People
  • Knowledge
  • Apple

• The female has learned by long experience to win by losing, to wield power in the passive-aggressive manner of the sadomasochist.

  

  Sam Keen
  • Long
  • Experience
  • Power

• It is, for example, axiomatic that we should all think of ourselves as being more sensitive than other people because, when we are insensitive in our dealings with others, we cannot be aware of it at the time: conscious insensitivity is a self-contradiction.

  

  W. H. Auden
  • People
  • Time

• I was only a gun captain on the battleship Alabama for 34 months. People have called me a hero for that, but I'll tell you this - heroes don't come home. Survivors come home.

  

  Bob Feller
  • People
  • Home
  • Hero

• I see a project, and I say I want to audition for it, and people let me audition for it. There's a lot to be grateful for.

  

  Nelsan Ellis
  • People

• I used to be a model and a medical test subject, though never at the same time. And since we didn't have much money when I was a kid, I know how to fish and hunt for my supper. And I used to win awards in speech in high school, which comes in handy when I speak to 200 people at a writers' conference.

  

  MaryJanice Davidson
  • People
  • Time
  • School

• People know my name and that can get me in the door but on the same hand people know my name and that can have them shut the door.

  

  Gary Cherone Van Halen
  • People
  • Hand
  • Door

• Every job I've done so far, every character has been completely different, and that's really important to me because I don't want to fall into a stereotypical box. Of course, every actor has their box, and you have to respect and play for it, but I do love challenging myself.

  

  Aneurin Barnard
  • Different
  • Important
  • Done

• Political commercials encourage the deceptive, the destructive and the degrading.

  

  John O'Toole
  • Political

• Gently, I ran my hand across his chest, exploring it. My breath felt tight in my throat. He was so beautiful. His muscles were toned, defined, his skin warm and smooth. Stroking my palm up over the line of his collarbone, I felt the firmness of his shoulder, the strength of his bicep. I traced my fingers over the black AK, following the lines of the letters. Alex hardly moved as I touched him, his eyes never leaving me. Finally I sighed and dropped my hand. I tried to smile. "I've sort of been wanting to do that ever since that first night in the motel room," I admitted.

  

  L.A. Weatherly
  • Up
  • Beautiful
  • Night

• Those people that you know for a long time and that you love, they're the easiest to talk to.

  

  Michael McKean
  • People
  • Long
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