Campbell McGrath Quotes

There is nothing romantic in the poverty of artists except to those who ogle the starving

Campbell McGrath

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• I feel blessed and humbled that people have loved my music. Nothing would be possible without their acceptance.

  

  A. R. Rahman
  • People
  • Music
  • Blessed

• There's such a preoccupation with liquidity and such an unwillingness to invest beyond the horizon of the next quarter and making sure that the CEOs hit their quarterly earnings.

  

  Edmund Phelps
  • Invest
  • Horizon
  • Beyond

• I never liked apples. In fact, when I was a little girl, my mom wanted to give me apples in my lunch box and I would ask for green peppers. So bizarre... It's funny - I don't have an apple a day, but I can say that I have a few a week.

  

  Lana Parrilla
  • Girl
  • Funny
  • Day

• Things derive their being and nature by mutual dependence and are nothing in themselves.

  

  Nagarjuna
  • Nature
  • Things
  • Nothing

• It's a trend to insult Wale, like that makes you cool on the Internet, and a part of it is because I respond.

  

  Wale
  • Cool
  • Internet
  • Insult

• My childhood was colorfully anarchic and punctuated by a lot of change.

  

  Sadie Frost
  • Change
  • Childhood
  • Lot

• Peter Wagner, my son, just won the Bel-Air Junior Club Championship. Parred the last three holes. One-putts, up and down. Us Wagners don't hit greens. We chip and putt.

  

  Jack Wagner
  • Up
  • Air
  • Son

• I am very lucky that I get to tell stories for a living. I love being able to grab people's attention, to keep them turning the pages, to make them stay awake all night.

  

  Harlan Coben
  • People
  • Attention
  • Stories

• It is important to understand how leaders have adapted and thought about war and warfare across their careers. 'The Autobiography of General Ulysses S. Grant: Memoirs of the Civil War' is perhaps the best war memoir ever written.

  

  H. R. McMaster
  • Important
  • War
  • Best

• Throughout my childhood, I did a form of Irish dancing that was kind of the precursor to 'Riverdance.' It was a mixture of ballet and Irish dancing that my teacher, Patricia Mulholland, had invented, essentially. It was Irish ballet, and she would create performances based around the myths and legends of Ireland.

  

  Laura Donnelly
  • She
  • Kind
  • Teacher

• I'm an aggressive fighter, but I'm smart. I'm not going to play stupid.

  

  Rafael dos Anjos
  • Play
  • Stupid
  • Smart

• One of my school friends' parents owned a minigolf course, and a bunch of us kids would play there all day in the summer. Two-under deuces was a good score.

  

  Jack Nicholson
  • Good
  • School
  • Kids

• At night when I used to sleep, I was thinking all the time that shall I put a knife under my pillow.

  

  Malala Yousafzai
  • Time
  • Thinking
  • Night

• I grew up in a strongly socialist family. While I was at school, I worked in party politics and with organizations like the Anti-Nazi League. Everywhere I saw it, I fought prejudice.

  

  Saffron Burrows
  • Up
  • School
  • Family

• I think it's a common misconception in the civilian community that the military community is filled with just drills and discipline and pain. They forget that these are humans who are in an abnormal situation.

  

  Adam Driver
  • Community
  • Pain
  • Military

• I have great people, smart people that are around me and we love the challenge. I guess it's like climbing a mountain or building a building. It's a challenge but you love every challenge that it brings or presents itself.

  

  Ice Cube
  • People
  • Great
  • Challenge

• Be a good animal, true to your animal instincts.

  

  D. H. Lawrence
  • Good
  • True
  • Animal

• It's celebrated in British culture to be eccentric.

  

  Paloma Faith
  • Culture
  • British
  • Celebrated

• What came out of 'Ocean's Twelve' is actually great because you do one 'Ocean's Twelve,' and you're more known around the world than if you did 20 years in the French cinema industry.

  

  Vincent Cassel
  • World
  • Great
  • Ocean

• Make yourselves nests of pleasant thoughts. None of us knows what fairy palaces we may build of beautiful thought-proof against all adversity. Bright fancies, satisfied memories, noble histories, faithful sayings, treasure houses of precious and restful thoughts, which care cannot disturb, nor pain make gloomy, nor poverty take away from us.

  

  John Ruskin
  • Pain
  • Poverty
  • Build

• No matter what is happening in life or in the world - war, natural disaster, poor health, pain, the death of loved ones - if existence is filled with art, music and literature, life will be fulfilling, a joy.

  

  Karen DeCrow
  • Life
  • World
  • Music

• Provision as much pure and organic food as you can, and let the rest go by.

  

  Laurie Colwin
  • Food
  • Rest

• There is nothing romantic in the poverty of artists except to those who ogle the starving

  

  Campbell McGrath
  • Poverty
  • Romantic
  • Nothing