Lyman Corbitt McAnally Jr. (Mac McAnally) Quotes

Growing up in Mississippi, I was such a farmer, and it's not desirable to bring attention to yourself. That's my nature, and all of a sudden, I'm in show business.

Lyman Corbitt McAnally Jr.

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• One who works for his own profit is likely to work hard. One who works for the use of others, without profit to himself, is likely not to work any harder than he must.

  

  B. Carroll Reece
  • Work
  • Own
  • Work Hard

• I love the horror genre and the thriller genre, so I've got no problem with playing a psycho.

  

  Valorie Curry
  • Love
  • Problem
  • Psycho

• I went to high school in New York City. So, I grew up in New Jersey my whole life, and I was watching all the people and all the kids that I met there become so jaded.

  

  Jack Antonoff Fun.
  • People
  • Life
  • Up

• When you practice gratefulness, there is a sense of respect toward others.

  

  Dalai Lama
  • Respect
  • Practice
  • Thankful

• I usually have more than one thing I'm working on at once - I've been working on three different novels. When I get stuck on one, I hop back and forth.

  

  Dan Chaon
  • Different
  • Working
  • Back

• We grew up listening to music like that: we grew up on the snap music, grew up off the trap music, grew up on all the South sound.

  

  Quavo Migos
  • Up
  • Music
  • Listening

• Medicine, you have to take it. A vitamin is nice to have, but honestly, you can skip it.

  

  Paige Craig
  • You
  • Nice
  • Medicine

• While I did not get any formal training in acting, every summer vacation, from the age of five, my father would take me to Ooty with him, and I would do films as a child star. I did over 10 films like that, and it was understood that post finishing my education, I would become an actor.

  

  Mahesh Babu
  • Age
  • Father
  • Education

• The substance of what it means to be a geek is essentially someone who's brave enough to love something against judgment. The heart of being a geek is a little bit of rejection.

  

  Felicia Day
  • Heart
  • Brave
  • Judgment

• I'm constantly trying to work on the person that I am and work on my shortcomings, and I guess I want people to know that it's ok to be a work in progress, as long as you keep trying to figure it out. But that search and that discovery is what makes life kind of rich, and it's what makes life rich... period.

  

  Idina Menzel
  • People
  • Life
  • Work

• Any personal crisis - you have to use it to get stronger.

  

  Carlos Slim
  • You
  • Stronger
  • Crisis

• To become a mother is to learn a whole language - to relearn it, perhaps, as it was the tongue to which we were born - and hence gain entrance to a forgotten world of comprehension.

  

  Rachel Cusk
  • World
  • Mother
  • Language

• I don't know if I'm a method actor.

  

  Caleb Landry Jones
  • Know
  • Actor
  • Method

• I don't look at myself as a Scream Queen, and I don't plan on continuing on this genre route. If anything, I want to go very different places.

  

  Maika Monroe
  • Different
  • Want
  • Myself

• What is needed now is a transformation of the major systems of production more profound than even the sweeping post-World War II changes in production technology.

  

  Barry Commoner
  • World
  • War
  • Technology

• When you're in a black group, you have to keep in mind you're not black. You just have to be sensitive. We have to be appreciative that the black nationalist struggle is a nationalist struggle.

  

  Yuri Kochiyama
  • Mind
  • Black
  • Struggle

• L.A. is so big that if you don't actually live in Hollywood, you might as well be from a different planet.

  

  Quentin Tarantino
  • Different
  • Live
  • You

• I think the play actually became bigger than me. No pun intended.

  

  Camryn Manheim
  • Think
  • Me
  • Play

• I'm a believer in paying your dues.

  

  Dana Fox
  • Your
  • Paying
  • Dues

• I knew I could do it all this time,” said Harry, “Because I'd already done it... does that make sense?

  

  Joanne Rowling
  • Time
  • Done
  • Said

• Eighty percent of Americans with HIV do not know they are infected.

  

  Philip Emeagwali

• Americans are uneasy with their possessions, guilty about power, all of which is difficult for Europeans to perceive because they are themselves so truly materialistic, so versed in the uses of power.

  

  Joan Didion
  • Power
  • Guilty

• There are some nights when everything goes your way and some when it doesn't, and this wasn't our game. I was most disappointed with our lack of aggression as that is normally one of our characteristics.

  

  Fabio Capello
  • Game

• Growing up in Mississippi, I was such a farmer, and it's not desirable to bring attention to yourself. That's my nature, and all of a sudden, I'm in show business.

  

  Lyman Corbitt McAnally Jr.
  • Up
  • Business
  • Nature