Mindy McCready Quotes

My fame came from my success as a country music singer.

Mindy McCready

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• Sometimes when I visit my sister and her two children, I wonder if she missed a lot by getting married. Right now, nothing could be further from my mind than getting married.

  

  Natalie Wood
  • Children
  • Mind
  • Wonder

• People who want the most approval get the least and people who need approval the least get the most.

  

  Wayne Dyer
  • People
  • Want
  • Need

• I have more of a desire to write songs about being an independent woman than being in love, songs about getting up and moving on even if I have a broken heart.

  

  Kat Graham
  • Heart
  • Desire
  • Independent

• When I am cast in a movie where I feel that the woman's part is more interesting, I usually start thinking about Spencer Tracy and Fred Astaire. They seem to be the most clear actors when working with women.

  

  Jack Nicholson
  • Thinking
  • Women
  • Movie

• 'Die Antwoord' just has a nice ring to it.

  

  Watkin Tudor Jones
  • Die
  • Nice
  • Ring

• All the reasons that have made software so successful are beginning to happen with hardware. So much can be done so quickly, prototyped so rapidly, and the costs are so low.

  

  Sam Altman
  • Done
  • Beginning
  • Successful

• The best advice my dad ever gave me is that acting is believing. Acting is not acting. It isn't putting on a face and dancing around in a mask. It's believing that you are that character and playing him as if it were a normal day in the life of that character.

  

  Haley Joel Osment
  • Life
  • Character
  • Dad

• Even the worst Bond movies, there's something to love about them.

  

  Daniel Craig
  • Love
  • Movies
  • Bond

• I guess I'd be put in the ID politics camp. But there is really nothing in the world-view of, say, Bernie Sanders I actually disagree with. I'd like a guaranteed income, single-payer health care, a stronger safety net, etc. The problem is the temptation to paper over historically fraught issues to achieve that is tempting.

  

  Ta-Nehisi Coates
  • World
  • Single
  • Health

• I may even show up behind the camera. I love to put things together; I love to give direction. I have a great eye for pace.

  

  J. B. Smoove
  • Great
  • Give
  • Direction

• The plastic bottle we're throwing away every day still stays there. And if we show that to people, then we can also promote some behavioral change.

  

  Carlo Ratti
  • People
  • Change
  • Day

• Therefore, a person should first be changed by a teacher's instructions, and guided by principles of ritual. Only then can he observe the rules of courtesy and humility, obey the conventions and rules of society, and achieve order.

  

  Xun Kuang
  • Society
  • Teacher
  • Humility

• Different directors offer you different things, and it's not necessarily the most obvious things.

  

  Malcolm McDowell
  • Different
  • You
  • Things

• At the height of the British Empire very few English novels were written that dealt with British power. It's extraordinary that at the moment in which England was the global superpower the subject of British power appeared not to interest most writers.

  

  Salman Rushdie
  • Power
  • English
  • Moment

• Research shows that the climate of an organization influences an individual's contribution far more than the individual himself.

  

  W. Edwards Deming
  • Organization
  • Research

• Making comic adaptations means making a lot of choices - you need to adjust the pacing, the dialogue, and in this case, a lot of the cultural references.

  

  Raina Telgemeier
  • You
  • Choices
  • Need

• Live well. Sing out, sing loud, and sing often. And God bless the child that's got a song.

  

  Nanci Griffith
  • God
  • Live
  • Song

• I like movies that are specific. Movies that home in on a very specific subculture, a specific discipline, a specific world.

  

  Damien Chazelle
  • World
  • Home
  • Discipline

• When I was younger, I was diagnosed with dyslexia, which meant, for me, sitting in front of a book was really hard - until I discovered Harry Potter, and this character, this 11-year-old boy, who suddenly gets off to school for the first time, captured my imagination, and suddenly reading was fun. Reading was inspiring, and I was motivated.

  

  Princess Beatrice of York
  • Time
  • School
  • Character

• I was bored at college, so I put $10 in a jukebox in this place where people played ping-pong and pool. I put in $10 of 'Jingle Bell Rock,' and this was back in the '90s, so it played 'Jingle Bell Rock,' like, 40 times in a row. It was just really fun to watch because after the fourth time, people were just losing-their-minds angry.

  

  Kyle Dunnigan
  • People
  • Time
  • Fun

• You want to be doing your best work whatever field of the arts you're in because your life's going to be over all too soon, and you have to make the most of it.

  

  Kurt Elling
  • Life
  • Work

• I need to hold onto my soul and my integrity, and I can't compromise that.

  

  Megan Fox
  • Soul
  • Integrity

• Lynyrd Skynyrd is not a political band, but you know what? We believe in this country. We have a soft spot for our military. We love the red, white and blue, and every night we dedicate a portion of our show to our fighting men.

  

  Rickey Medlocke Lynyrd Skynyrd
  • Believe
  • Country
  • Band

• My fame came from my success as a country music singer.

  

  Mindy McCready
  • Country
  • Singers