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

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  Irving Babbitt

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

  

  C. S. Lewis

• 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 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 did commercial fishing in Alaska in college. I was the only girl on a fishing boat. It definitely tested so many aspects of my personality.

  

  Lela Loren
  • Girl
  • College
  • Personality

• I was at a bar nursing a beer. My nipple was getting quite soggy.

  

  Emo Philips
  • Beer

• I started doing home brew stuff with my dad when I was younger.

  

  Dylan Sprouse
  • Home
  • Dad

• Money and success don't change people; they merely amplify what is already there.

  

  Will Smith
  • People
  • Money
  • Success

• Those people who shun us just because of the label we're on, or the fact that we've got a video out there that's getting us somewhere, are only limiting themselves, because they aren't keeping an open mind.

  

  Joel Madden Good Charlotte
  • People
  • Mind

• We are what we eat, so I eat as many veggies as I can!

  

  Kristin Chenoweth

• The most stable elements, Clarice, appear in the middle of the periodic table, roughly between iron and silver. Between iron and silver. I think that is appropriate for you.

  

  Thomas Harris
  • Elements
  • Middle
  • Silver

• The big difference between the radio show and the TV work is that I don't have to work by committee on the radio show. I'm the DJ; I can play what I want and suffer or get praised by that. With a TV show, it's much more of a collaboration, and the song that I might think is perfect may get shot down and vice versa.

  

  Gary Calamar
  • Work
  • May
  • Song

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

  

  Audra McDonald