Alison McGhee Quotes
Quotes to Explore
-
Golf was never a religion to me.
-
I love the game and I am so lucky to be able to do what I love.
-
I now believe that major labels can only work with people who care more about fame and money than the quality of the art they produce.
-
The reason a poet is a poet is to write poems, not to advertise himself as a poet.
-
When we read fiction, we want to get outside of ourselves and are able to see from a perspective we haven't seen through before. That can be very powerful.
-
Always farm fresh eggs, never store bought.
-
When the Islamic revolution began in 1979 under the leadership of Ayatollah Khomeini, it aroused considerable admiration in the Arab street. It presented a model of organised popular action that deposed one of the region's most tyrannical regimes. The people of the region discerned in this revolution new hope for freedom and change.
-
I like to be underdressed rather than overdressed. For an event or a premiere, it's fun to dress up more - then I like to experiment.
-
I don't know how to make Harper and Alloy want me, not just my name.
-
You can condemn and criticize religion... all those things are fine, but you can't mock and disrespect people.
-
I happen to be the kind of reader who, if I like something, I don't want it to end.
-
As long as there have been elections, there have been attempts to keep eligible people from voting.
-
It is sadder to find the past again and find it inadequate to the present than it is to have it elude you and remain forever a harmonious conception of memory.
-
I fell in love with Rwanda the moment I saw those verdant, rolling hills rise up beneath the wings of the plane as we descended toward Kigali airport.
-
I think, certainly in the more civilized societies, women's roles are growing in power all of the time.
-
I think every age has a medium that talks to it more eloquently than the others. In the 19th century it was symphonic music and the novel. For various technical and artistic reasons, film became that eloquent medium for the 20th century.
-
China's own recent history proves that when it opens itself, there is nothing its people cannot accomplish. A more open China will lead to a more prosperous and stable China. That's good for China, the United States and, indeed, the entire world.
-
Private education can give you confidence, which is marvellous; a sense of entitlement isn't.
-
We are not what we seem. We are more than what we seem. The actor knows that. And because the actor knows that hidden inside himself there's a wizard and a king, he also knows that when he's playing himself in his daily life, he's playing a part, he's performing, just as he's performing when he plays a part on stage.
-
Modeling is not a passion of mine. I have been having fun with it, but it's just to pay the bills.
-
Everyone deals with loss. I'm no different, but we all find our ways of coming through things. Is it tough? Of course, but you find the strength to push on through.
-
The panic of the Depression loosened my inhibitions against being different. I could be myself.
-
I'm really passionate about representation in film. I feel like the world is dominated by such a small group of human beings. There are so many different kinds of people that aren't represented, that don't have characters who look like them.
-
I like to write in all different genres. I just like a new challenge.
