Andrew McDermott Quotes

If you start a painting and you don't like where it's going, don't give up on it. Just keep going and follow through. You might be surprised how it ends up.

Andrew McDermott

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• Give Up
• Surprised

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• I was married for 36 years but now I'm free.

  

  Quincy Jones
  • Free
  • Married
  • Now

• Writers tell stories better, because they've had more practice, but everyone has a book in them. Yes, that old cliche.

  

  Tanith Lee
  • Book
  • Practice
  • Better

• I've never been one for crushing on famous people.

  

  Daisy Ridley
  • People
  • Never
  • Famous

• I have music in my brain all the time, all sorts.

  

  Daniel Barenboim
  • Time
  • Music
  • Brain

• I feel that for the story of 'Romeo and Juliet' to be impactful, it has to be believable, and there has to be a certain level of chemistry between the two characters.

  

  Hailee Steinfeld
  • Feel
  • Story
  • Chemistry

• All bad qualities centre round the ego. When the ego is gone, Realisation results by itself. There are neither good nor bad qualities in the Self. The Self is free from all qualities. Qualities pertain to the mind only.

  

  Ramana Maharshi
  • Good
  • Mind
  • Bad

• I knew that if I wanted to be all I could be, I would have to go to the U.S. It took three years to get the accent right.

  

  Idris Elba
  • Years
  • Right
  • Three

• For commercial books in a genre, readers' and editors' expectations may be fairly rigid. Some romance lines, for instance, issue fairly detailed writers' guidelines explaining exactly what must happen in a book they publish (and what must not).

  

  Nancy Kress
  • May
  • Book
  • Expectations

• The agitator must stand outside of organizations, with no bread to earn, no candidate to elect, no party to save, no object but truth - to tear a question open and riddle it with light.

  

  Wendell Phillips
  • Truth
  • Light
  • Party

• Having three brothers in the league has been real fun for the whole family, and we're just trying to keep it going.

  

  Chris Gronkowski
  • Real
  • Trying
  • Family

• When I started acting, I made a conscious decision that I wanted to be a character read and not a leading man. I didn't want to do the same thing again and again. I wanted to push and challenge myself. I find and embrace new and unique challenges in all mediums.

  

  Brian J. White
  • Character
  • Decision
  • Challenge

• When parents ask why there are still so few girls in advanced science and math classes in high school, I tell them, because girls still need way more encouragement than boys to take those courses.

  

  Eileen Pollack
  • School
  • Why
  • High

• I played ice hockey obsessively for 14 years of my life.

  

  Paul Wesley
  • Life
  • Hockey

• I think the biggest advice I would give to any actor who's directing and also acting at the same time is don't even watch your coverage. You do a scene, and then, you know what you did; it doesn't matter what you look like.

  

  Paul Wesley
  • Time
  • Advice

• I've always been like that; I give 100 percent. I can't do it any other way.

  

  Emma Watson

• Exchanging bitcoin on behalf of ransomware victims should not be construed as criminal activity by the exchanger, not as a matter of law nor as sound policy. Such an interpretation would set a precedent that would surely cause real harm to the public, to the blockchain ecosystem, and to the financial services industry as a whole.

  

  Perianne Boring
  • Real
  • Law
  • Financial

• I was right not to be afraid of any thief but myself, who will end by leaving me nothing.

  

  Katherine Anne Porter
  • Leaving

• I feel that if you are not comfortable, you can't be stylish, and that is the rule I follow.

  

  Arjun Kapoor

• I wish I could get all the discourteous drivers on a ship and sail them away and make sure it's a really horrible, wavy journey and when they get to where they're going, keep them there.

  

  Alvin Martin
  • Wish
  • Journey

• What I do know is that with a celebrity's death comes an avalanche of media, and in that media is most often another death - it takes a life that is filled with complicated talent, hope, success and drive and reduces it to the 'story.'

  

  James Belushi
  • Life
  • Hope
  • Death

• Think it is just a matter of... well look how long it took Shawn Colvin to reach the level that she has. Believe me, that girl has done everything except stand behind the cash register at Tower and take the money.

  

  Christine Lavin
  • Believe
  • Long
  • Money

• You never know what the future holds, so I am just enjoying being happy, healthy, and having my wonderful husband by my side.

  

  Olivia Newton-John
  • Happy
  • Future
  • Husband

• I'd be really surprised if it turns out to be anything other than that.

  

  Frank Rizzo
  • Surprised

• If you start a painting and you don't like where it's going, don't give up on it. Just keep going and follow through. You might be surprised how it ends up.

  

  Andrew McDermott
  • Painting
  • Give Up
  • Surprised