Alasdair MacLean Quotes

I have the longing that all writers have for new ears to pour my words into.

Alasdair MacLean

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• Parents were invented to make children happy by giving them something to ignore.

  

  Ogden Nash
  • Children
  • Happy
  • Parents

• I love singing. It's who I am. When I act, I take a small part of myself and just magnify it, but when I'm singing, that's who I am. I don't write music, so I choose songs that I would have written.

  

  Lainie Kazan
  • Music
  • Singing
  • Write

• I'd say I am more of a comfort person. I have Adidas sneakers that are my favorite thing on the planet. Adidas high tops with black jeans and a fur hat that I love wearing. I love vintage shopping.

  

  Tatiana Maslany
  • Person
  • Comfort
  • Favorite

• We want Quora to last forever, and in order to last forever, it's going to need to have revenue. One of the best things about ads is that you don't need to exclude anyone.

  

  Adam D'Angelo
  • Want
  • Best
  • Forever

• A film of my life would never happen!

  

  Malorie Blackman
  • Life
  • Film
  • My Life

• Directing is the ultimate way to bring together all the art forms I've been involved with over the years.

  

  Xander Berkeley
  • Art
  • Together
  • Years

• Diego is Diego and for me he is the greatest player of all time. Even after a million years I am not even going to be close to Maradona. I have no intention of comparing myself with Maradona - I want to make my own history for something I have achieved.

  

  Lionel Messi
  • Time
  • History
  • Player

• If you're allowed to make your mistakes, I think you should. But people don't really like hearing you admit them. Although I'd never wanted to dump on the musicians that were involved in that.... Because it was not their fault.

  

  Joe Strummer The Clash
  • People

• I've always been conscious of the fact that there aren't enough Irish voices on British television compared to the amount of Irish people who live there.

  

  Chris O'Dowd
  • People
  • Live
  • Irish

• I don't love the off-court stuff. But I know it's necessary.

  

  Kristaps Porzingis

• Cooperation on the international level could help to solve the problem of sources of sharp capital flow volatility and its consequences.

  

  Elvira Nabiullina
  • Help

• I do feel pressure from the outside world a little bit just because everybody wants new music, which is really nice. It just proves that everybody likes what I'm doing. But at the same time, I feel like it's important to just chill and experience things and really make the songs true to me.

  

  Alessia Cara
  • Time
  • World
  • Music

• A lot of people call me a 'machine,' and I don't think a lot of men or women operate the way I do.

  

  Linda Perry 4 Non Blondes
  • People
  • Men
  • Women

• If you decide you need a secured card, use it to charge small items every month, then pay the balance off in full. If your credit score improves, and the bank doesn't offer to upgrade your card within 12 to 18 months, give them a call. If they refuse, try another lender.

  

  Jean Chatzky
  • Small
  • Balance

• Do I have a small movie in me? Yeah, probably, when I'm 60. But I'm not Hal Ashby, I'm not Roman Polanski. I'm true to myself. Whether you like it or not.

  

  Brett Ratner
  • True
  • Movie
  • Small

• At some point, all black movies became biopics. All the good, serious ones became biopics. 'Ray,' 'Ali'... those types of movies, those are the opportunities available for mostly men. Those are the opportunities for a black actor to transcend 'black' movies. They have to play a black icon.

  

  Martine Syms
  • Good
  • Men
  • Black

• New Zealand was one of the most beautiful countries to drive through for the scenery and the vast scale of the place.

  

  Louise Nurding
  • Beautiful

• The problem with fine art is that in most cases people have to make a special excursion to go and look at it: they can't afford to own it. So it isn't really part of their life in the way that music can be.

  

  Brian Eno Roxy Music
  • People
  • Life
  • Music

• The superiority of the dreamer is that dreaming is much more practical than living, and that the dreamer extracts from life a much vaster and varied pleasure than the action man. In better and more direct words, the dreamer is the real action man.

  

  Fernando Pessoa
  • Life
  • Real
  • Words

• A meeting moves at the speed of the slowest mind in the room. (In other words, all but one participant will be bored, all but one mind underused.)

  

  Dale Dauten
  • Mind
  • Words
  • Bored

• Usually on films, you get used to kind of being told, 'This is what you're going to wear, this is what you're going to hold, and remember, you're lucky to be here, and shut up.'

  

  Katherine Waterston
  • Up
  • Remember

• What higher approval could a person enjoy than to know that what he or she has done is pleasing to God?

  

  R. C. Sproul
  • God
  • Done
  • She

• when we had a king, and a chancellor, and parliament-men o' our ain, we could aye peeble them wi' stanes when they werena gude bairns - But naebody's nails can reach the length o' Lunnon.

  

  Walter Scott
  • Men
  • King

• I have the longing that all writers have for new ears to pour my words into.

  

  Alasdair MacLean
  • Words
  • Ears
  • Longing