Andrew McMahon Quotes

You don't have to push or pull or fight or win, the struggle is illusory. Sometimes or rather, all times, you just have to be.

Andrew McMahon

• Struggle
• To Be
• Illusory

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• The most amazing thing about Karl Lagerfeld is that no matter what you ask him, you will always get an interesting answer. We even exchanged notes about ponytails.

  

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  • You
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• I started writing movie scripts. They excited me a lot, but I didn't like them when they were finished because they were simple copies of the films I saw in childhood.

  

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• One of the biggest development issues in the world is the education of girls. In the United States and Europe, it has been accepted, but not in Africa and the developing countries.

  

  Harri Holkeri
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• Well, enough clowning around. Perl is, in intent, a cleaned up and summarized version of that wonderful semi-natural language known as'Unix'.

  

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• Your brother is still young enough to believe that the past still exists, he said. That the injustices within it await his remedy.

  

  Cormac McCarthy
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• The passions of a revolution are apt to hurry even good men into excesses.

  

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• I definitely stood out when I was in high school.

  

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• It is one thing to see your friend dance around a table when she's 25, quite another thing to see her doing it when she's 62.

  

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• Value will always be on top of everyone's lists now, right along with safety.

  

  David Neeleman
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• I have no definite talent or trade, and how I stay alive is largely a matter of magic.

  

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  • Magic

• I learned that if you want something, you've got to really go for it, try to put the nerves aside.

  

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• America has always fascinated me; it's a country where you can make it from one side to the other with no money, by hook or by crook.

  

  Joe Dempsie
  • Country
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• I'm told I was born in Canada, but I was adopted, and I grew up in Maine and Massachusetts.

  

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  • Up

• Life presents you with so many decisions. A lot of times, they're right in front of your face and they're really difficult, but we must make them.

  

  Brittany Murphy
  • Life

• Big ideas developed in a vacuum are doomed from the start. Feedback is the essential tool for building and growing a successful company.

  

  Jay Samit
  • Growing

• I'm a huge Emile Zola fan, and when Bill Gallagher said he was writing a new character for 'The Paradise' and had me in mind for the role, I knew I wanted to play Tom Weston before I'd even read a word of the script.

  

  Ben Daniels
  • Writing
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• So mightiest powers buy deepest calms are fed, And sleep, how oft, in things that gentlest be!

  

  Barry Cornwall
  • Sleep

• Writing is like walking in a deserted street. Out of the dust in the street you make a mud pie.

  

  John le Carre
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• Everyone saw me on TV or read articles, and it was all about my great marriage, the white picket fence, all this success and my perfect life. But behind the scenes, it was a struggle.

  

  Lindsey Vonn
  • Life
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• The father-son thing, that's a separate thing. This film [Forsaken] was not about that. This was a film about two actors wanting to try and tell a story... and taking advantage of the fact that we looked like a father and son.

  

  Kiefer Sutherland
  • Father
  • Film
  • Son

• I know so many women in their fifties, sixties and seventies who delight in being on their own. It's amazing. They don't see any stigma attached to it. We don't need a man to prove our identity anymore.

  

  Erica Jong
  • Men
  • Identity
  • Prove

• When I started in professional baseball, I had what you might call a rude awakening. See this scar right next to my left ear? That's where the pitcher hit me the very first time I came to bat as a pro. I was out cold for about 10 minutes.

  

  Billy Herman
  • Time
  • Baseball
  • Cold

• You don't have to push or pull or fight or win, the struggle is illusory. Sometimes or rather, all times, you just have to be.

  

  Andrew McMahon
  • Struggle
  • To Be
  • Illusory