Michael McKean Quotes
Some people stay in the academic world just to avoid becoming self-aware. You can quote me on that.
Quotes to Explore
-
The only thing that matters is what happens on the little hump out in the middle of the field.
-
In Israel, waves of anger and fear circulate all the time, but so do jokes and gossip and silky evening breezes. So, too, in America.
-
I was mostly an indoor girl at university. Where other students did drama or music or sport alongside their degrees, I wrote. I used to work on essays and classwork during the day and 'The Bone Season' in the evenings.
-
Where love is, there God is also.
-
It's really important to find something you really enjoy - something you can focus on and be good at.
-
If we go back in the history of different nations, violence and the use of force are part of their heritage. These are the traditions of mankind.
-
We must honestly face our relationship with Great Britain.
-
My mother helped me identify myself the way the world would identify me. Bloodlines didn't matter as much as how I would be perceived.
-
I've always been DJing; it's just I'm making more of a push for it, making it more public.
-
Scriptures reveal the divine desires of the Lord in our behalf. Each of us should have a burning desire to search the scriptures diligently and daily to seek the will of the Lord in our life. For some, it may be necessary to develop the discipline to search the scriptures daily.
-
I'm a stand-up. I'm never worried about getting my next role. That's never distressing to me.
-
If you're not acting, you're not an actor.
-
I feel very much satisfied to play in Baltimore.
-
That was one of the reasons I became a writer - I never really had that many friends. I would read a lot, and listen to music. And that was my life.
-
If a film is very clever and well-written, that's what gives you freedom as a director.
-
We were very fortunate that the carriers weren't in the harbor.
-
Growing up in the middle of nowhere, there was a lot of twangy music around, but it didn't really connect with me then.
-
Providence has its appointed hour for everything. We cannot command results, we can only strive.
-
Any writer my age almost can't get away from being influenced by Kurt Vonnegut, partially because of his simple, clear way of stating things. To read Vonnegut is to learn how to use economy words.
-
It shouldn't be so difficult to determine what a planet is. When you're watching a science fiction show like 'Star Trek' and they show up at some object in space and turn on the viewfinder, the audience and the people in the show know immediately whether it's a planet or a star or a comet or an asteroid.
-
Learning to stand in somebody else's shoes, to see through their eyes, that's how peace begins. And it's up to you to make that happen. Empathy is a quality of character that can change the world.
-
I don't like the info-dump, as it's known.
-
Some people stay in the academic world just to avoid becoming self-aware. You can quote me on that.
