Barry McGee Quotes

Drawings, paintings, and sculptures. That's the three pillars of art academia.

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• Nobody is bothered about an institution more than its alumni.

  

  N. R. Narayana Murthy
  • More
  • Nobody
  • Alumni

• There was a special challenge in describing the awful childhood of a person who happens to be my own husband. It was very painful at times, for both of us.

  

  Pamela Stephenson
  • Challenge
  • Childhood
  • Husband

• Running back was always my favorite position.

  

  Barry Sanders
  • Running
  • Always
  • Back

• There's a lot of stress... but once you get in the car, all that goes out the window.

  

  Dan Brown
  • Car
  • Stress
  • Window

• It's totally mistaken to suppose that an armed escort is going to give a journalist any protection - on the contrary, journalists who turn up surrounded by armed personnel are just turning themselves into targets and in even worse danger.

  

  Kate Adie
  • Up
  • Danger
  • Protection

• Several of the energy companies want to do the right thing. It's a matter of leveling the playing field though for them and that's why corrective action here is necessary.

  

  Ed Royce
  • Why
  • Energy
  • Action

• Wal-mart... do they like make walls there?

  

  Paris Hilton
  • Like
  • Make
  • Walls

• For my parents' generation, the idea was not that marriage was about some kind of idealized, romantic love; it was a partnership. It's about creating family; it's about creating offspring. Indian culture is essentially much more of a 'we' culture. It's a communal culture where you do what's best for the community - you procreate.

  

  Aasif Mandvi
  • Family
  • Parents
  • Culture

• The problem with independent films is that they can be hit or miss. I've seen scripts that have blown me away. But there have to be all the right ingredients in place to make them work: the director, cast, publicity, distribution.

  

  Aaron Taylor-Johnson
  • Work
  • Problem
  • Independent

• You can't cry when things get a little bit hard. You've just got to push through and know that there's a reason and end to the means.

  

  Abby Wambach
  • Know
  • Reason
  • End

• There are films you see that only reach your eyes. Then there are films that you can watch... that reach down to your throat, or reach your heart. 'In the Mood for Love,' though, reached all the way to my belly.

  

  Zhang Ziyi
  • Heart
  • Love
  • Eyes

• The Fiction Writer's Co-op has 51 members, from celebrated NYT bestsellers to promising newcomers, and a waiting list.

  

  M. J. Rose
  • Waiting
  • Writer
  • Newcomers

• I have a Rhodesian Ridgeback dog named Lola.

  

  Hannah Kearney
  • Dog
  • Named

• Self-confidence has always been one of my good qualities. I am always very confident. It is in my nature to be confident, to be aggressive. And it applies in my batting as well as wicketkeeping.

  

  Mahendra Singh Dhoni
  • Confidence
  • Confident
  • Qualities

• We do take pride in how we look, but it's really just like, take a couple minutes, and you're ready to go.

  

  Jacob deGrom
  • You
  • Couple
  • Pride

• I've been in situations where I was the only black guy. We're in a time now where nobody wants to see that. But it still happens.

  

  Dak Prescott
  • Time
  • Guy
  • Black

• I offer originality: you don't know what my films are like until you go to them. I think that's the reason I've been getting all this attention.

  

  M. Night Shyamalan
  • Think
  • Know
  • Attention

• While taking sign language in high school, one of our assignments was to go out and participate in the deaf community, so I really got to know a lot of the group from that. I felt like they needed a little bit more of a voice because people treat them different just because they're hearing impaired.

  

  Zach LaVine
  • People
  • Different
  • School

• Real understanding does not come from what we learn in books; it comes from what we learn from love of nature, of music, of man. For only what is learned in that way is truly understood.

  

  Pablo Casals
  • Music
  • Men
  • Real

• I am a writer, I deal in words. There is no word that should stay in word jail, every word is completely free. There is no word that is worse than another word. It's all language, it's all communication.

  

  Quentin Tarantino
  • Free
  • Words
  • Language

• The Hebrew language... is the only glue which holds together our scattered bones. It also holds together the rings in the chain of time.... It binds us to those who built pyramids, to those who shed their blood on the ramparts of Jerusalem, and to those who, at the burning stakes, cried Shema Yisrael!

  

  I. L. Peretz
  • Time
  • Together
  • Blood

• There's actually 14 in our family, but we disowned the others.

  

  Caroline Corr
  • Family

• I had a fifth grade teacher who, as a very small way of trying to contain my class clown energy, gave me 10 minutes at the end of class every Friday to present whatever I wanted. A lot of the time, I did an Andy Rooney impression. I would sit at her desk, empty it, and just comment on what was in there.

  

  Andy Daly
  • Time
  • Trying
  • Small

• Drawings, paintings, and sculptures. That's the three pillars of art academia.

  

  Barry McGee
  • Art
  • Three
  • Pillars