Kathleen McGowan Quotes

I don't want it to appear that I'm standing up and saying I'm the expected one. That's a dangerous, ego-driven kind of thing.

Kathleen McGowan

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• The metaphor for Palestine is stronger than the Palestine of reality.

  

  Mahmoud Darwish
  • Reality
  • Stronger
  • Palestine

• I found I could speak louder and was more comfortable if I was doing it in someone else's crazy voice.

  

  Kate McKinnon
  • Crazy
  • Speak
  • Voice

• USC has really developed my love for the cinema.

  

  O'Shea Jackson, Jr.
  • Love
  • Really
  • Cinema

• If I'm elected president, we will repeal every word of Obamacare.

  

  Ted Cruz
  • President
  • Word
  • Will

• The real problem is not why some pious, humble, believing people suffer, but why some do not.

  

  C. S. Lewis
  • People
  • Real
  • Why

• When I come offstage, if I've done a bad show or had a bad night, the fact that everybody was standing at the end or three or four times during the show means nothing to me. I know I could have done a better show.

  

  Wayne Newton
  • Done
  • Bad
  • Night

• This solution may not appeal to our human pride, but the problem is that our human pride in itself is sinful.

  

  Walter Lang
  • May
  • Problem
  • Pride

• And as I reinvent myself and I'm constantly curious about everything, I can't wait to see what's around the corner in newfound art and entertainment and exploration.

  

  Pam Grier
  • Art
  • Myself
  • Curious

• There's been no real reason to move to LA. The stuff I've done for America has been done in Europe anyway. We made a decision early on that we'd find our base and not shake the children's world as much as mine.

  

  Mads Mikkelsen
  • World
  • Children
  • Real

• Some writers think that fiction is the space of great neutrality where all humans share the same concerns, and we are all alike. I don't think so. I'm interested in class warfare because I think it's real.

  

  Rachel Kushner
  • Great
  • Real
  • Space

• Forecasting is simply not a strength of the species; we are much better with tools and narrative storytelling.

  

  Barry Ritholtz
  • Better
  • Strength
  • Tools

• I have an obsession with hot sauce. I love Cholula. I put Cholula on everything.

  

  Becky G
  • Love
  • Have
  • Obsession

• When I left French 'Vogue,' New York welcomed me with a big, big hug.

  

  Carine Roitfeld
  • Me
  • New York
  • Hug

• I directed the men in our barque to approach near the savages, and hold their arms in readiness to do their duty in case they notice any movement of these people against us.

  

  Samuel de Champlain
  • People
  • Men
  • Movement

• I think extreme secrecy is a bad sign in all startups. Very few startups die because they tell you exactly how their technology works. On the long list of startup killers, that's pretty far down. Though on the list of entrepreneur fears, it's pretty high.

  

  Sam Altman
  • Long
  • Bad
  • High

• I believe in glamour. I am in favor of a little vanity. I don't rely on just my genes.

  

  Iman
  • Believe
  • Vanity
  • Genes

• Rightly or wrongly, the Victorian considered that there were certain subjects which were not meet for inter-sexual discussion, just as they held that certain processes of the feminine toilet, like the powdering of the nose and the application of lipstick to the mouth, were (if done at all) better done in private.

  

  E. F. Benson
  • Done
  • Better
  • Discussion

• I remember when an editor at the National Geographic promised to run about a dozen of my landscape pictures from a story on the John Muir trail as an essay, but when the group of editors got together, someone said that my pictures looked like postcards.

  

  Galen Rowell
  • Remember
  • Together
  • Story

• In talking and communicating, it's important that we really share information with one another - because I think that leads to better understanding - and also just kind of educate one another in a way that's really honest.

  

  Nia Long
  • Thinking
  • Important
  • Kind

• America is woven of many strands. I would recognise them and let it so remain. Our fate is to become one, and yet many. This is not prophecy, but description.

  

  Ralph Ellison
  • America
  • Fate
  • Become

• Children's lies are signs of great talent.

  

  Gabriel Garcia Marquez
  • Lies
  • Talent
  • Children's

• To me, Elijah Wood is one of the best actors of my generation. He's so incredibly present and in the moment, when you're working with him, and then we just chat away about anything off camera because he's a lovely guy.

  

  Samuel Barnett
  • Guy
  • Moments
  • Present

• What are the things that you can't see that are important? I would say justice, truth, humility, service, compassion, love...They're the guiding lights of a life.

  

  Jimmy Carter
  • Love
  • Truth
  • Justice

• I don't want it to appear that I'm standing up and saying I'm the expected one. That's a dangerous, ego-driven kind of thing.

  

  Kathleen McGowan
  • Kind
  • Dangerous
  • Expected