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

  

  Quincy Jones
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  • 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
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  • Never
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• I have music in my brain all the time, all sorts.

  

  Daniel Barenboim
  • Time
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  • 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
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• 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
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• 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
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• 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
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• 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
  • Question

• 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
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• 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
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• 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

• Whether conservative or liberal, fundamentalist or agnostic, the more students learn of biology, the more they accept evolution.

  

  Kenneth R. Miller

• I watched myself put my paw in the bear trap on that one because there was this clause about leaving members.

  

  Elliott Smith
  • Leaving

• Never be too proud to get down on your knees and pray.

  

  Paul Bryant
  • Proud

• Writing plays supplied for me everything that painting didn't, which is the ability to tell stories in real time, in a real space, in three dimensions, in flesh and blood. I realized I had been trying to cram all this narrative into my paintings, but ultimately painting was a static medium. So it just opened up this whole new door.

  

  Beau Willimon
  • Up
  • Time
  • Writing

• I was a really lousy artist as a kid. Too abstract expressionist; or I'd draw a big ram's head, really messy. I'd never win painting contests. I remember losing to a guy who did a perfect Spiderman.

  

  Jean-Michel Basquiat
  • Remember
  • Guy
  • Perfect

• 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