Brooke McEldowney Quotes

I suppose no matter what I'm drawing, there will always be some sort of question in my mind about it. A work of art even cartoon art is never really finished; it is abandoned.

Brooke McEldowney

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• I don't think I think when I play. I have a photographic memory for chords, and when I'm playing, the right chords appear in my mind like photographs long before I get to them.

  

  Earl Hines
  • Long
  • Mind
  • Memory

• When I went to drama school, I knew I was at least as talented as other students, but because I was a black man and I wasn't pretty, I knew I would have to work my butt off to be the best that I would be, and to be noticed.

  

  Lance Reddick
  • Work
  • School
  • Pretty

• I enjoy going out by myself... always have, always will. I don't have security guards, and, for the most part, I enjoy meeting new people. I see myself as a regular guy who likes playing video games with his nieces and nephews and poker with his family. I don't have an art collection or take exotic vacations. I enjoy being at home.

  

  Vince Vaughn
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• Sofia Coppola is wonderful, and I'd love to work with her.

  

  Orlando Bloom
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• I have never denied my background or my culture. I have taught my child to embrace her Mexican heritage, to love my first language, Spanish, to learn about Mexican history, music, folk art, food, and even the Mexican candy I grew up with.

  

  Salma Hayek
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• Hard work is not why I have been successful as a model.

  

  Cameron Russell
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  • Model

• I design all my sets. With my tour and my album artwork, I co-design that with people who are better at drawing than me. But I've got a good imagination. I went to art school so I understand how to communicate my ideas.

  

  Paloma Faith
  • People
  • Good
  • School

• My grandfather was an autoworker, and I have a weapon he manufactured to protect himself from the company that he would carry to work. It's a big iron pipe with a hunk of lead on the head. I think about how far we've come as companies from those days, where workers had to protect themselves from the company.

  

  Larry Page
  • Work
  • Think
  • Grandfather

• If there's a party and they won't let my friends in, I'd leave. No question.

  

  Zac Efron
  • Friends
  • Question
  • Party

• Art is like breathing for me. If I don't do it, I start to choke.

  

  Yoko Ono
  • Art
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  • Start

• Making $30,000 on my first business deal was exciting, but not as exciting as the sudden knowledge that I did not have to work for anyone again.

  

  E. Joseph Cossman
  • Work
  • Business
  • Knowledge

• I've never been someone that was sort of blessed with an innate talent of just being able to do things. I had to work at it and learn from mistakes.

  

  Eddie Redmayne
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• I want to work with the best coaches in the world.

  

  Eden Hazard
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• Somebody who was born in this country who visited China would later face difficulty getting back in to the USA. We have to keep in mind that the struggles of the Chinese against these exclusion laws really laid down the foundations of civil rights law.

  

  Iris Chang
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• I always say, one way to connect with a working mother is to ask her what she has done before work that day!

  

  Raney Aronson-Rath
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  • Connect

• We need to incorporate that age-old concept of redemption into the work that we do in the criminal justice system in California.

  

  Kamala Harris
  • Work
  • Age
  • Justice

• I just like when I work with people that are professional and good.

  

  Taraji P. Henson
  • People
  • Good
  • Work

• To me, the idea of success is to be able to work with people you admire.

  

  Xavier Dolan
  • People
  • Work
  • Success

• Enjoy your sweat because hard work doesn't guarantee success, but without it, you don't have a chance.

  

  Alex Rodriguez
  • Work
  • Success

• Prosecutors committed to reform need talented staff members who share that commitment, and our best legal talent should flock to their offices.

  

  James Forman, Jr.
  • Commitment

• Growing up, my dad was a pastor, and much like The First Family or people in front of the public eye, we were highly scrutinized as a family within the church and looked at as - well, I guess you would call an example of what that family image should be.

  

  Nick Jonas Jonas Brothers
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• A lot of professional dancers become professional when they turn 15 or 16 years old, when they're still children. So you've trained every single waking moment up until that point for a career that could maybe only last 10 years, maybe longer if your body holds up, if your injuries are kept at bay.

  

  Amanda Schull
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  • Children
  • Career

• If you want a thing--truly want it, want it so badly that you need it as you need air to breathe, then unless you die, you will have it. Why not? It has you. There is no escape. What a cruel and terrible thing escape would be if escape were possible

  

  Octavia E. Butler
  • Why
  • Die
  • Air

• I suppose no matter what I'm drawing, there will always be some sort of question in my mind about it. A work of art even cartoon art is never really finished; it is abandoned.

  

  Brooke McEldowney
  • Work
  • Mind
  • Art