Dave McKean Quotes

I like being able to do anything. I think that's healthy, doing anything and everything, rather than just getting completely obsessed with one particular genre or particular kind of work.

Dave McKean

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• The difference between an actor and a star is the budget and the overall presentation of a film.

  

  Nawazuddin Siddiqui
  • Star
  • Budget
  • Presentation

• After conducting Wagner, Beethoven's triple concerto is like taking an Alka Seltzer.

  

  Zubin Mehta
  • Like
  • Beethoven
  • Wagner

• One of the things that fascinated me about modeling was that you had the freedom to look any way you wanted.

  

  Veronica Webb
  • Freedom
  • Me
  • Modeling

• I want to develop Katihar as an ideal district. That is my dream for my constituency.

  

  Tariq Anwar
  • Want
  • Dream
  • Ideal

• What people see is just your career graph and the films you do. But that's a very small aspect of my life.

  

  Kangana Ranaut
  • People
  • Life
  • Career

• Opera in English is, in the main, just about as sensible as baseball in Italian.

  

  H. L. Mencken
  • English
  • Baseball
  • Italian

• One of my biggest inspirations growing up was Whitney Houston, so I was devastated to hear about her passing. I'm from East Orange, New Jersey, and started singing at New Hope Baptist Church, so she was like my fellow Jersey girl.

  

  Naturi Naughton 3LW
  • Hope
  • Church
  • Singing

• Being sick is the reason I went into comedy.

  

  Vanessa Bayer
  • Comedy
  • Reason
  • Sick

• I'm really happy that I was raised Catholic because it's given me years of material.

  

  Kate Clinton
  • Happy
  • Me
  • Years

• I believe in Christianity as I believe that the sun has risen: not only because I see it, but because by it I see everything else.

  

  C. S. Lewis
  • Believe
  • Sun
  • I Believe

• I'm completely ecstatic when a woman has own back story and brings something to the table and has a real strong kind of independence.

  

  Dane Cook
  • Real
  • Strong
  • Woman

• I didn't have a childhood.

  

  Pat Morita
  • Childhood

• If Casey Stengel were alive today, he'd be spinning in his grave.

  

  Ralph Kiner
  • Today
  • Alive
  • Spinning

• I think there are a lot of great ideas out in America, and I want you to have a say in your government. And that means we have to get unaccountable money out of our politics, overturn Citizens United, and expand voting rights, not restrict them.

  

  Hillary Clinton
  • Great
  • Money
  • America

• We'll be raising our hands  Shining up to the sky  Cause we've got the fire fire fire  And we gonna let it burn

  

  Ellie Goulding
  • Up
  • Fire
  • Sky

• I was able to sit at Lincoln's side and see how he thought and how he acted, and how he felt about what was going on around him. I felt the pressures that were on him. You can see what people were writing to him, how they were nudging him.

  

  David Herbert Donald
  • People
  • Writing

• As the coding movement continues to grow, the common narrative of the white male geek as the predominant influencer on geek culture will erode.

  

  Kimberly Bryant
  • Culture

• I'm just being myself. To me, that people are interested in Jenni, not necessarily the artist, but the woman... it amazes me still.

  

  Jenni Rivera
  • People

• I think one of the things about writing in the studio is that the song hasn't matured, if you like, so quite often the vocals are early attempts. Whereas once you've taken it out on the road a bit, you learn more about a song.

  

  Peter Gabriel Genesis
  • Thinking
  • Writing
  • Song

• I think the goal is to win everything. Whatever we can reach is nice to take.

  

  Kevin De Bruyne
  • Goal
  • Everything
  • Reach

• That's what it is all about, coming in and playing a game like it is your last. That's what we did. We fought on the defensive end, we fought trying to get rebounds, and we let the offense take care of itself.

  

  Allen Iverson
  • Trying
  • Game
  • Offense

• I don't always have to be the best. Things don't always have to be perfect.

  

  Floor Jansen Nightwish
  • Perfect
  • Best

• Scotty Moore plays one of the first really amazing riffs in rock history on Heartbreak Hotel with Elvis Presley ... it was dangerous, it scared everybodys parents, which was part of the attraction then - as it still is now... it totally blindsided me and made me want to get a guitar and do that.

  

  Roger McGuinn The Byrds
  • Rock
  • Elvis Presley
  • Riffs

• I like being able to do anything. I think that's healthy, doing anything and everything, rather than just getting completely obsessed with one particular genre or particular kind of work.

  

  Dave McKean
  • Thinking
  • Everything
  • Healthy