Brian McGinn Quotes

With the rise of the reality show, everyone thinks they can be a celebrity, or that it would be a positive to be a celebrity, or that everyone who's in the news is a celebrity, and I think that there are a lot of people who don't choose to be on the front page, and yet they're still there.

Brian McGinn

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• I've bought some Lanvin snake-print wedges, so maybe you'll see me pushing the pram in those and my hotpants!

  

  Abbey Clancy
  • Snake
  • Bought
  • Wedges

• We shook up the industry with our landscape-changing deal to acquire Time Warner, the logical next step in our strategy to bring together world-class content with best-in-class distribution which will drive innovation and more choice for consumers.

  

  Randall L. Stephenson
  • Up
  • Time
  • World

• Nothing is as frustrating as arguing with someone who knows what he's talking about.

  

  Sam Ewing
  • Nothing
  • Talking
  • Someone

• I don't want to become known as just a body.

  

  Taylor Lautner
  • Want
  • Body
  • Just

• I think if they put a laugh track on 'Intervention,' it would be funny.

  

  Zach Galifianakis
  • Think
  • Funny
  • Laugh

• I don't really believe in the auteur theory.

  

  Park Chan-wook
  • Believe
  • Really
  • Theory

• When we were on the farm, we were isolated, not just by geography but by the primitive living conditions: no electricity, no running water and, of course, no computer, no phone.

  

  Sally Mann
  • Running
  • Water
  • Electricity

• I am an advocate of education. It is the panacea for all that ails us in our society.

  

  Octavia Spencer
  • Society
  • Education
  • Advocate

• It is well known that Turkey has more imprisoned journalists than any other country, but as a result of the chilling effect of these prosecutions on the press, many stories never make the news.

  

  Safak Pavey
  • Country
  • Never
  • News

• I really knew I wanted to be Adam, because Adam was the first man. Ant I chose because, if there's a nuclear explosion, the ants will survive.

  

  Adam Ant Adam and the Ants
  • Man
  • First
  • Survive

• One of the great things about music is that it has the capability of time travel - you smell a certain smell in the room and it takes you back to your childhood. I feel like music is able to do that, and it happens to me all the time.

  

  M. Ward
  • Time
  • Great
  • Music

• I work out and go to the gym, but I still enjoy my soul food and snacks. But I'm a pretty petite young woman, and I just do everything in moderation and make sure that I just keep everything together.

  

  Naturi Naughton 3LW
  • Work
  • Together
  • Soul

• Writing changed my life. It has an existential dimension, and that's the same for every writer. Every artist has a moment of awakening, of happening upon an idea that grabs hold of you, regardless of whether you are a painter or a writer.

  

  Imre Kertesz
  • Life
  • Writing
  • Moment

• I always keep a supply of stimulant handy in case I see a snake, which I also keep handy.

  

  W. C. Fields
  • Always
  • See
  • Snake

• I can express all my views on the slavery question by quotations from Henry Clay.

  

  Abraham Lincoln
  • Question
  • Slavery
  • Clay

• I'm good at keeping secrets.

  

  Sam Taylor-Wood
  • Good
  • Secrets
  • Keeping

• If life only has the meaning you bring to it, we have the opportunity to bring rich meaning to our lives by the service we do for others.

  

  Harold Ramis
  • Life
  • Opportunity
  • Service

• I like David Lynch; I like Stanley Kubrick. I'm a big fan of Kubrick.

  

  Olivier Megaton
  • Like
  • Fan
  • Big

• The pursuit of holiness must be anchored in the grace of God; otherwise it is doomed to failure.

  

  Jerry Bridges
  • Failure
  • Holiness
  • Grace Of God

• I don't really see myself as a celebrity, but more as a sort of mitre.

  

  Kate Bush
  • Myself
  • See
  • Celebrity

• I have no interest in being known as a celebrity; 'celebrity' is a pretty disgusting word. It's part of the brainwashing of the culture, part of the false idolatry of those that are only human, and I don't want to participate in that.

  

  Andrew Garfield
  • Pretty
  • Culture
  • Celebrity

• In life, in true life, there can be nothing better than what is. Wanting something different than what is, is blasphemy.

  

  Leo Tolstoy
  • Life
  • Different
  • True

• With the rise of the reality show, everyone thinks they can be a celebrity, or that it would be a positive to be a celebrity, or that everyone who's in the news is a celebrity, and I think that there are a lot of people who don't choose to be on the front page, and yet they're still there.

  

  Brian McGinn
  • Celebrity
  • News
  • Reality Show