Audra McDonald Quotes

I never in a million years thought that my life would unfold the way it has.

Audra McDonald

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• The common idea that success spoils people by making them vain, egotistic and self-complacent is erroneous; on the contrary it makes them, for the most part, humble, tolerant and kind.

  

  W. Somerset Maugham
  • People
  • Success
  • Humble

• Ninety percent of the comic books I've written in the past had little or nothing to do with Islam.

  

  G. Willow Wilson
  • Past
  • Islam
  • Percent

• I firmly believe that one of the best kept secrets to soft and glowing skin is moisturisation.

  

  Nargis Fakhri
  • Believe
  • Best
  • Secrets

• Culturally, the First World War is the war that stands in for other wars.

  

  Pat Barker
  • World
  • War
  • First

• I've been just eating very healthy, all organic, no sugar, white flour, nothing artificial. I'm being so incredibly strict... not a lot of meat!

  

  Danica McKellar
  • Healthy
  • Eating
  • Meat

• In this world without quiet corners, there can be no easy escapes from history, from hullabaloo, from terrible, unquiet fuss.

  

  Salman Rushdie
  • World
  • History
  • Easy

• Luckily, I was raised by people who'd already seen all the yuck stuff, which is why they originally didn't want me to act. I understood the difference between getting a part at a Hollywood party and getting a job.

  

  Laura Dern
  • People
  • Why
  • Job

• When Paris has to pee, Paris has to pee!

  

  Paris Hilton
  • Paris

• I don't pick and choose subjects or settings; they pick and choose me.

  

  Vikram Seth
  • Me
  • Choose
  • Settings

• Of course great politicians are always liable to be wrong about something, and the more people tell them they are wrong, the more stubbornly they defend their error.

  

  Ferdinand Mount
  • People
  • Great
  • Always

• I was the youngest and on my own a lot. I think this probably taught me independence and how to be okay with my own company. Also, it meant I read a lot.

  

  Zoe Foster Blake
  • Think
  • Me
  • Company

• Animals are companions on this planet, not necessarily our feedbags.

  

  D. A. Pennebaker
  • Animals
  • Planet
  • Companions

• Everything is tennis for me, it's my career and it's entertainment, but it's also a business.

  

  Venus Williams
  • Business
  • Career
  • Tennis

• People do not seem to realize that their opinion of the world is also a confession of character.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • People
  • World
  • Character

• I've come to learn that the determined and gifted and genuine sociopath has far more power to deceive than we realize.

  

  Walter Kirn
  • Power
  • Learn
  • Realize

• I feel a physical happiness when spring is coming.

  

  Halldor Laxness
  • Happiness
  • Feel
  • Spring

• I love having wine with my meals. And if I splurge, I'm going to splurge big, because if I deny my cravings, it just ends up backfiring on me, you know?

  

  Rachel Nichols
  • Know
  • Ends
  • Deny

• Our plans for 'Superman?' I can't say. This is the most super secret thing ever. It's like working for the government, like I'm on a covert mission.

  

  Zack Snyder
  • Government
  • Mission
  • Plans

• I immediately felt the need, back when I was a managing tech engineer, to attach myself to Nat Turner. And to research him and learn about him and try to find ways into his life that I could apply to my life.

  

  Nate Parker
  • Life
  • Myself
  • Research

• The mentality with African and European people is different. In Africa, when you come from a difficult life, when it's not so easy to eat, not so easy to survive, you respect money when you start to earn it, and you respect people more. When you respect people, they will respect you, and your life is better for that.

  

  Yaya Toure
  • People
  • Life
  • Different

• In the life of nations, what in the last resort decides questions is a kind of Judgment Court of God... Always before god and the world the stronger has the right to carry through what he wills.

  

  Adolf Hitler
  • Life
  • God
  • Nations

• You should have died when I killed you.

  

  John le Carre

• I never in a million years thought that my life would unfold the way it has.

  

  Audra McDonald
  • Life