William McKeen Quotes

This writing wasn't painful. It was like being high.

William McKeen

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• This life and this job and this position that I'm put in, it forces you to grow up quick. I definitely got dropped in the deep end.

  

  Flume
  • Life
  • Up
  • Job

• The Japanese version comes with a translation, but that's different from the lyrics, so people could look things up and find a translation of their own if they're interested.

  

  Utada Hikaru
  • People
  • Up
  • Different

• It would have shown people that I was prepared to do that kind of work, although I find myself in a position now where I don't really need to and I could pick and choose the kind of characters I'd like to do.

  

  Garth Ennis
  • People
  • Work
  • Myself

• 'Vanity' means worthlessness.

  

  Vanity
  • Means
  • Vanity
  • Worthlessness

• The Gorillaz cartoons seem more real to me than the actual people on TV. Because at least you know that there's some intelligence behind the cartoons, and there's a lot of work that's gone into it, so it can't all be just a lie.

  

  Damon Albarn Blur
  • People
  • Work
  • Real

• You have a new role: family caregiver. It's a role nobody applies for. You don't expect it. You won't be prepared. You probably won't even identify yourself as a caregiver.

  

  Gail Sheehy
  • Family
  • You
  • Yourself

• I don't see why OPEC countries should continue to cut production just to keep the price of oil high. This will not affect the industrial countries alone, it will also hit poor countries in Africa, Asia and Latin America. Who will look after them?

  

  Hamad bin Khalifa Al Thani
  • Why
  • America
  • High

• I love gross kissing. I think it's the most fun thing to do.

  

  Kate McKinnon
  • Love
  • Fun
  • Think

• You're miserable, edgy and tired. You're in the perfect mood for journalism.

  

  Warren Ellis
  • Perfect
  • Tired
  • Mood

• It is psychologically very hard to go through life without the justification, and the hope, provided by religion.

  

  Umberto Eco
  • Life
  • Hope
  • Religion

• There isn't much of a music scene in Hermann, unless you like polka. But the landscape I grew up in is a part of me. I spent a lot of time in the woods doing a lot of nothing to break the boredom.

  

  Nathaniel Rateliff
  • Up
  • Time
  • Music

• It's not like learning how to hit a curve ball in baseball.

  

  Floyd Abrams
  • Learning
  • Like
  • Baseball

• Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man's character, give him power.

  

  Abraham Lincoln
  • Men
  • Character
  • Power

• We have to be careful because if one day the world is short of energy, it will be our responsibility. Everybody will ask Total, 'Why don't you have more oil?'

  

  Christophe de Margerie
  • World
  • Why
  • Energy

• When somebody is making a movie about your life, that's different. A show is a live performance. Things are going to go wrong. You are going to get away with things. A movie is indelible. A movie is through a microscope.

  

  Frankie Valli Frankie Valli & The Four Seasons
  • Life
  • Different
  • Live

• We have all learned that addiction and mental illnesses are illnesses, and I think a lot of people overlook that it is a chemical imbalance; it's like cancer, a sickness, and people need to see it as that.

  

  Poppy Delevingne
  • People
  • Cancer
  • Addiction

• It consists entirely of people who are not related by blood, many of whom can't stand each other.

  

  Delia Ephron
  • People

• Our system is dynamic, always shifting gears. What I do is I build models to beat the market.

  

  Louis Navellier

• Focused, hard work is the real key to success. Keep your eyes on the goal, and just keep taking the next step towards completing it. If you aren't sure which way to do something, do it both ways and see which works better.

  

  John Carmack
  • Work
  • Real
  • Success

• I believe that stories find writers, writers don't find stories. With the 'Pendragon' series, I actually had multiple story ideas and decided that instead of writing them individually, I would create a character whose journey would thread them all together.

  

  D. J. MacHale
  • Believe
  • Writing
  • Character

• I love writing songs. One of the toughest things is structure; it just works when you use verse, chorus, verse, chorus, bridge. And as soon as you become aware of that formula, you start to have a bad conscience when you write with that particular structure.

  

  Rivers Cuomo Weezer
  • Writing
  • Bad
  • Bridge

• I've done that quite often, but I've got to be quite honest... as much as you would want to only do one at a time, sometimes projects overlap and there's nothing you can do. Sometimes you to have begin writing a new project just as you're finishing off another.

  

  Trevor Rabin Cinema
  • Writing
  • Done
  • Sometimes

• This writing wasn't painful. It was like being high.

  

  William McKeen
  • Writing
  • Painful