Audra McDonald Quotes

I've been so lucky, with incredible mentors along the way, that now I need to be that for someone else.

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• Life is a game. Money is how we keep score.

  

  Ted Turner
  • Life
  • Money
  • Game

• To be a designer today is to be an entrepreneur. Whether you're a two-man operation in Shoreditch or a 3,000-person, vertically integrated brand, you need to have the wherewithal to run your business through investment, considering everything from start-up funds to your exit plan or what it takes to go public.

  

  Natalie Massenet
  • Up
  • Business
  • Today

• I went swimming the other day and my wife was watching and she said, 'You know, it's funny, it's when you've got no clothes on, no one recognizes you.' I said, 'What are you saying? That I should do more love scenes?'

  

  Eddie Marsan
  • Funny
  • Know
  • Day

• I felt like I had two fathers. I had my real father and the father in my head.

  

  Macaulay Culkin
  • Real
  • Father
  • Like

• America is rather like life. You can usually find in it what you look for. It will probably be interesting, and it is sure to be large.

  

  E. M. Forster
  • Life
  • America
  • Interesting

• I did not enter the industry to create a certain image. People happened to see me as the friend/sister/daughter next door. I like that association very much. It's close to what I am in real life. As for films, I just focus on the job.

  

  Kajal Aggarwal
  • People
  • Life
  • Real

• I write all the time, even if it means recording in the hotel room. I write on the plane, anywhere, anytime I'm inspired or have ideas.

  

  Flo Rida
  • Time
  • Ideas
  • Inspired

• Too often, I've seen instances where we have an idea of what we want to be, where we want to go, and with whom - before life steps in the way, throws something at us that is beyond our control, and changes everything.

  

  Barbara Delinsky
  • Life
  • Control
  • Changes

• I think America is on the right track.

  

  Wayne Allard
  • America
  • Think
  • Right

• You wish me to tell you why and how God should be loved. My answer is that God himself is the reason he is to be loved.

  

  Saint Bernard
  • God
  • Me
  • Reason

• p. 63

  

  Irving Babbitt

• All mortals tend to turn into the thing they are pretending to be.

  

  C. S. Lewis

• What is a portrait good for, unless it shows just how the subject was seen by the painter? In the old days before photography came in a sitter had a perfect right to say to the artist: 'Paint me just as I am.' Now if he wishes absolute fidelity he can go to the photographer and get it.

  

  Aubrey Beardsley
  • Good
  • Perfect
  • Photography

• I did not know that mankind were suffering for want of gold. I have seen a little of it. I know that it is very malleable, but not so malleable as wit. A grain of gold will gild a great surface, but not so much as a grain of wisdom.

  

  Henry David Thoreau
  • Great
  • Wisdom
  • Suffering

• There are three successive states of morality answering to the three principal stages of human life; the personal, the domestic, and the social stage.

  

  Auguste Comte
  • Life

• I … thought about societies where exceptional fortunes are built up in industries with very little connection to out sincere and significant needs, industries where it is difficult to escape from the disparity between a seriousness of means and a triviality of ends.

  

  Alain de Botton
  • Up
  • Connection

• I fought fires in the summer, and then I went back and did it again when I went to graduate school.

  

  Matthew Desmond
  • School
  • Summer

• Fear of error which everything recalls to me at every moment of the flight of my ideas, this mania for control, makes men prefer reason's imagination to the imagination of the senses. And yet it is always the imagination alone which is at work.

  

  Louis Aragon
  • Work
  • Men
  • Fear

• I think that good things will happen in the Middle East, in Israel, and to American progressive Jewry only if we work together to save a progressive Israel that progressive Americans can have affinity with again.

  

  Ari Shavit
  • Together
  • Progressive
  • Affinity

• I'm very happy where 3-D is going, which is that it's becoming a choice - and thankfully, most people are still choosing 2-D.

  

  Christopher Nolan
  • People
  • Happy

• What the philosopher is seeking is not truth, but rather the metamorphosis of the world into man.

  

  Friedrich Nietzsche
  • Truth
  • Philosopher
  • Metamorphosis

• The ability to send applications by post allows fraudsters to apply in false or stolen identities without fear of arrest and to make multiple applications in the hope of getting one through. It allows the possibility of passports being applied for with the photographs of people who are outside the U.K. and seeking to enter illegally.

  

  Des Browne
  • People
  • Hope
  • Fear

• I should love to satisfy all, if I possibly can; but in trying to satisfy all, I may be able to satisfy none. I have, therefore, arrived at the conclusion that the best course is to satisfy one’s own conscience and leave the world to form its own judgment, favorable or otherwise.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • World
  • Judgment
  • Conscience

• I've been so lucky, with incredible mentors along the way, that now I need to be that for someone else.

  

  Audra McDonald