Michael McKean Quotes

I'm all over the place. As you may have seen from the credits, I write with everybody.

Michael McKean

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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.

  

  Salman Rushdie
  • Life
  • Religion
  • Child

• You can't win if you don't play as a unit.

  

  Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
  • You
  • Play
  • Win

• Action is the foundational key to all success.

  

  Pablo Picasso
  • Success
  • Action
  • Key

• There's no way to understand housing as it exists today without federal policy.

  

  Ta-Nehisi Coates
  • Today
  • Way
  • Understand

• 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.

  

  Macaulay Culkin
  • People
  • Up
  • Done

• 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.

  

  Ira Glass
  • Control
  • Attention
  • Moving

• I've never yet managed to write a novel which didn't have an Indian central character.

  

  Salman Rushdie
  • Character
  • Never
  • Write

• I know I should keep this a secret, but Celine Dion is something of an icon to me.

  

  Natasha Bedingfield
  • Know
  • Secret
  • Keep

• For those who have obtained unobstructed knowledge of Self, the world is seen merely as a bondage causing imagination.

  

  Ramana Maharshi
  • World
  • Knowledge
  • Imagination

• 'reading is at the beginning of the social contract'

  

  Alberto Manguel
  • Reading
  • Beginning

• When we hold to the core, the opposite sides are the same if they are seen from the center of the moving circle. I do not experience; I am experience. I am not the subject of experience; I am that experience. I am awareness. Nothing else can be I or can exist.

  

  Bruce Lee
  • Experience
  • Moving

• I read so much science fiction when I was young. I believe science fiction is the genre for exploration and to learn about possibilities via book.

  

  Bob Mayer
  • Believe
  • Book
  • Science

• Soaring prices for crude oil, falling production surpluses, wild speculation in commodities, a rush into the precious metals, turmoil in the Middle East, assertive oil producers: it is 1973-74 all over again, and at dictation speed.

  

  James Buchan

• 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.

  

  Kyrsten Sinema
  • People
  • Up
  • Home

• I'm the type of person who doesn't hope, dream or wish for things. I work and work and work.

  

  Lilly Singh
  • Work
  • Hope
  • Dream

• Most of these alternative arrangements, so-called, arise out of the ruins of marriages, not as an improvement of old fashioned marriage.

  

  Christopher Lasch
  • Marriage
  • Improvement

• 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.

  

  David Oyelowo
  • Black
  • Decision
  • Drama

• Crummy pictures, live appearances, circuses, avant garde theater, dinner theater. I've done it all. I've been shot out of cannons. I know what the people want. I'm out there with the people.

  

  Adam West
  • People
  • Live
  • Done

• Writing for Mills and Boon taught me a lot of discipline. You have to produce books in a short time scale and four a year, and it teaches you a lot.

  

  Penny Jordan
  • Time
  • Writing
  • Discipline

• And so it was settled. Sam Gamgee married Rose Cotton in the spring of 1420 (which was also famous for its weddings), and they came and lived at Bag End. And if Sam thought himself lucky, Frodo knew that he was more lucky himself; for there was not a hobbit in the Shire that was looked after with such care. When the labours or repair had all been planned and set going he took to a quiet life, writing a good deal and going through all his notes. He resigned the office of Deputy Mayor at the Free Fair that Midsummer, and dear old Will Whitfoot had another seven years of presiding at Banquets.

  

  J. R. R. Tolkien
  • Writing
  • Years
  • Spring

• My experience of being on the public platform got more multi-faceted, multi-dimensional, and my place in the public eye, I think, has always been a little more than just what is going on in that time in my life.

  

  Aishwarya Rai Bachchan
  • Life
  • Time
  • Experience

• What is a better way to prove that your methods work than by winning? I have proved that my methods work.

  

  Bela Karolyi
  • Work
  • Winning

• We've always been into God. We feel we are blessed. That's part of our success. I mean, apart from the chemistry and the talent, we are blessed. I don't think it can happen without God.

  

  Pepa DJ Spinderella
  • God
  • Success
  • Blessed

• I'm all over the place. As you may have seen from the credits, I write with everybody.

  

  Michael McKean
  • Writing
  • May
  • Credit