Terrence McNally Quotes
I like to surprise myself. I've always been attracted to projects where I don't know how they're going to turn out.Terrence McNally
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You have to dream before your dreams can come true.
A. P. J. Abdul Kalam -
I played small forward on the basketball team. I also ran the 300 hurdles.
Gabriel Luna -
It was my father who taught us that an immigrant must work twice as hard as anybody else, that he must never give up.
Zinedine Zidane -
I know I've got a degree. Why does that mean I have to spend my life with intellectuals? I've got a lifesaving certificate but I don't spend my evenings diving for a rubber brick with my pyjamas on.
Victoria Wood -
I keep my house tidy, because then I can think clearly. I feel the same about myself. Presenting yourself well is a working-class thing - my dad was a printer, but he wore a tie most days. The ungroomed look belongs more to the middle classes.
Gary Kemp Spandau Ballet -
Every actor looks all his life for a part that will combine his talents with his personality... 'The Odd Couple' was mine. That was the plutonium I needed. It all started happening after that.
Walter Matthau
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Nearly every coach I've talked with tells me that the attention you get from media and other people is the thing you miss most. I don't know if that's right.
Bear Bryant -
My mum had four kids on her own, so if I had one kid with one nanny and not a full-time job, it would be a joke. And I think the impossible happens when you leave your kids. I've seen so many nannies in the park on their phones, and the kids are running off.
Abbey Clancy -
My mobile phone battery runs out all the time because all the messages come straight to me.
Ed Balls -
My father is my idol, so I always did everything like him. He used to work two jobs and still come home happy every night.
Magic Johnson -
France is the only place where you can make love in the afternoon without people hammering on your door.
Barbara Cartland -
I approach my character with the question: What would an animal think? How would an animal respond? A lot of times, it's quick action and no fear, and sometimes it's irrational fear. You don't always know.
Victoria Pratt
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There is properly no history; only biography.
Ralph Waldo Emerson -
The thing about happiness is that it doesnt help you to grow; only unhappiness does that. So I'm grateful that my bed of roses was made up equally of blossoms and thorns. I've had a privileged, creative, exciting life, and I think that the parts that were less joyous were preparing me, testing me, strengthening me.
Lana Turner -
People need to spread love towards strangers. We all bleed the same blood and we are all part of a global community now.
Aloe Blacc -
Traveling around sure gets me down and lonely, nothing else to do but close my mind. I sure hope the road don't come to own me, there's so many dreams I've yet to find. But you're so far away.
Carole King -
I do like Eddie Van Halen as a player. He gets it right quite often.
Paul McCartney The Beatles -
True philosophers are like elephants, who when walking never placetheir second footontheground untilthefirst is steady.
Bernard Le Bovier de Fontenelle
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Being is seeing in the human dimension.
Stephen Covey -
In the world of reality the more beautiful a work of art, the longer, we may be sure, was the time required to make it, and the greater the number of different minds which assisted in its development.
Lafcadio Hearn -
As I read I experienced what was becoming a familiar sensation: the world was rearranging itself around me while I processed words from a liquid-crystal display.
Ben Lerner -
I like to surprise myself. I've always been attracted to projects where I don't know how they're going to turn out.
Terrence McNally