Aline Brosh McKenna Quotes

I think one of the things about parents and children is there are the accidents of temperament. There's no guarantee that just because you are related you'll have anything in common.

Aline Brosh McKenna

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• But I used to have a bit of a gambling problem. And that would have been the answer to my prayers. It got worse when I started playing this character, too.

  

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• You can almost taste the pressure now.

  

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• The person who takes the oath of office in the next four months will shape not just the next four years, but the next forty years of our nation. In these next four years, we need proven leadership, proven judgment and proven values. America needs four more years of President Barack Obama.

  

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• All art is exorcism. I paint dreams and visions too; the dreams and visions of my time. Painting is the effort to produce order; order in yourself. There is much chaos in me, much chaos in our time.

  

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• We hear of the wealth of nations, of the powers of production, of the demand and supply of markets, and we forget that these words mean no more, if they mean any thing, then the happiness, and the labor, and the necessities of men.

  

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• TV has grown so much. It is like a powerhouse medium.

  

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• There is no winning or losing, but rather the value is in the experience of imagining yourself as a character in whatever genre you're involved in, whether it's a fantasy game, the Wild West, secret agents or whatever else. You get to sort of vicariously experience those things.

  

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• Gossip is what you say about the objects of flattery when they aren't present.

  

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• I pretty much preach, teach and nag.

  

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• Don't lower your expectations to meet your performance. Raise your level of performance to meet your expectations.

  

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• Maybe I'm being philosophical and spiritual, but I believe that if you put negative energy out there that that is what will come back.

  

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• We play because we love the game, we love each other, and we love to win.

  

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• I think one of the things about parents and children is there are the accidents of temperament. There's no guarantee that just because you are related you'll have anything in common.

  

  Aline Brosh McKenna
  • Children
  • Parents
  • Temperament