Audra McDonald Quotes

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

Audra McDonald

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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

• People do not connect with what happened last week, let alone what happened 20 years ago.

  

  Avery Brooks
  • People
  • Alone

• Sidney Poitier, who is class personified, said: 'Lou, you're a leading man because you're a good actor.' Brought tears to my eyes.

  

  Lou Diamond Phillips
  • Good
  • Eyes
  • Tears

• Here in Silicon Valley, I have taken part in hundreds of conversations trying to convince people to dive in and become entrepreneurs. All too often, innovators with good, safe, jobs are unwilling to put their family's access to health care at risk by walking away from company-backed medical insurance.

  

  Eric Ries
  • Conversations
  • Entrepreneurs
  • Silicon Valley

• Good Lord, I went in for a check up the other day and the doctor said 'You need to lay off eggs.' I go 'Is my cholesterol bad?' He said 'No, your farts are killing everybody in this room.'

  

  Larry the Cable Guy
  • Up
  • Good
  • Bad

• We had moved cross-country from upstate New York to Kansas in the heat wave of 1980, with two cars, no air-conditioning, and a black dog. I can still see the infernal temperature of a hundred and nineteen degrees on a bank sign somewhere near Ohio.

  

  Kevin Young
  • Country
  • Black
  • Air

• This country cannot afford the deceptive luxury of waging defensive warfare.

  

  James Forrestal
  • Country

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

  

  Audra McDonald