Michael McKean Quotes
I'm all over the place. As you may have seen from the credits, I write with everybody.
Quotes to Explore
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I was 21 in 1968, so I'm as much a child of the '60s as is possible to be. In those years the subject of religion had really almost disappeared; the idea that religion was going to be a major force in the life of our societies, in the West anyway, would have seemed absurd in 1968.
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Action is the foundational key to all success.
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There's no way to understand housing as it exists today without federal policy.
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People do bad things in their lives. And those sort of things are forgivable. That's half the point of having confession in church - you need to be able to fess up to what you've done.
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One of the things I learned as a young semiotics nerd was that if you have plot moving forward, no matter how banal the facts of it, simply the fact that the plot is rolling forward makes you wonder what's going to happen next, which creates suspense. So you can control peoples' attention simply by having things move forward in a story.
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I've never yet managed to write a novel which didn't have an Indian central character.
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For those who have obtained unobstructed knowledge of Self, the world is seen merely as a bondage causing imagination.
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I didn't really have an interest in politics when I first entered the workforce. What I wanted to do was help people who grew up like me. When I was a kid growing up in Tucson, my father lost his job and we lost everything - including our home. We lived in an abandoned gas station for two years until we were able to get back on our feet.
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I'm the type of person who doesn't hope, dream or wish for things. I work and work and work.
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Most of these alternative arrangements, so-called, arise out of the ruins of marriages, not as an improvement of old fashioned marriage.
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The only way we are going to get diversity is if the demographics of the decision-makers change... The odd-token bone thrown is not going to do it. Don't pat yourself on the back because you made that black drama; that's not diversity. It's got to be baked into the foundation of where the ideas flow from.
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The past nine years in San Diego have represented such a period of questioning.
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I think I'm alright as a lyricist, you know? But then what will happen every couple of months or so is that I'll hear a song I've never heard before and feel I've gone right back to square one.
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I wish I had been wiser. I wish I had been more effective, I wish I'd been more unifying, I wish I'd been more principled.
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I subscribe to no religion. But I believe that in the creation of art, there can be moments of God.
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When I think about the shows that we have on our air, we've been known for a long time for shows that feature strong, dynamic, powerful women at their forefront. And we're going to continue with that kind of storytelling.
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To establish true self-esteem we must concentrate on our successes and forget about the failures and the negatives in our lives.
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You're entitled to Medicaid regardless of your income. Don't worry about your health care.
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Anymore cutting and the movie would be as silly as cutting a condensed Reader's Digest novel.
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No doubt men may easily think too little of God the Father, and God the Spirit, but no man ever thought too much of Christ.
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You know there are no secrets in America. It's quite different in England, where people think of a secret as a shared relation between two people.
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I really hate the people in power. I hate them with every fiber of my being. That is what drives me in almost everything I do.
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On Broadway, only the fire doors separate you from the sidewalk and you're lucky if the sound of a police car doesn't rip the envelope twice a night.
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I'm all over the place. As you may have seen from the credits, I write with everybody.
