Alan Loy McGinnis Quotes

If people know we expect good things from them, they will in most cases go to great lengths to live up to our expectations.

Alan Loy McGinnis

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When you built television sets, you have all this test equipment. And you'd have all these lines and squares on the screen to test it. So it occurred to me that it might be fun for people to control the lines and squares on the screen.

Ralph Baer
- People
- Fun
- Control
I was in my mid 20s when email finally took off. Until then, the phone was my primary way of connecting with the people in my life.

Rainbow Rowell
- People
- Life
- My Life
I never seek controversy or foresee it for my pictures. I take a personal stand, and perhaps because my films are on contemporary subjects, people do not share my point of view.

Otto Preminger
- People
- Stand
- View
The things that drive me are poverty, and pain, and knowing that I don't want to end up being alone and I want to do something with my life and I want the name Dobson to remain in everyone's heads. Basically, just to rock and be the best performer I can be, and be true, and be real, and give people the real Fefe, nothing fake, all real.

Fefe Dobson
- People
- Life
- Up
We know that the elements in play in a show like 'Confederate' are much more raw, much more real, and people come into them much more sensitive and more invested, than they do with a story about a place called 'Westeros,' which none of them had ever heard of before they read the books or watched the show.

D. B. Weiss
- People
- Real
- Know
I guess if you have an original take on life, or something about you is original, you don't have to study people who came before you. You don't have to mimic anybody. You just have a gut feeling inside, an instinct that tells you what's right for you, and you can't do it in any other way.

Barbra Streisand
- People
- Life
- Feeling