Audra McDonald Quotes

When I was doing 'A Raisin in the Sun' with Sean Combs, we began in bed, and he would give me 10 kisses and an 11th for luck before the play began.

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• I've always felt a bit hard done by in England – you know, I've won the Bisto three times in Ireland, but it has felt like nobody has even heard of me in my home country.

  

  Kate Thompson
  • Country
  • Done
  • Home

• The different Ministries have to work more on the promotion of the country, to build Kosovo's public image. Concrete projects must be assembled, in order to activate our businessmen to have more contacts. We have to create a positive image about ourselves.

  

  Ibrahim Rugova
  • Work
  • Different
  • Country

• I find the whole situation of confronting an audience terrifying.

  

  Sam Shepard
  • Audience
  • Find
  • Situation

• I educated myself. To me, school was boring.

  

  Van Morrison
  • School
  • Me
  • Myself

• Be sure you put your feet in the right place, then stand firm.

  

  Abraham Lincoln
  • Strength
  • Feet
  • Stand

• I travel regularly and have learnt to be very methodical as far as packing is concerned. For example, I always check the weather in advance of where I'm going to ensure that I've packed the right clothes.

  

  Paloma Faith
  • Travel
  • Clothes
  • Weather

• Unless you're a big movie star, regular television work is going to bring you more exposure than anything. Everybody has a television; not everybody goes to the movies.

  

  G. W. Bailey
  • Work
  • Movie
  • Star

• I got a psychology degree from USC, but music is just my whole life.

  

  Banks
  • Life
  • Music
  • Just

• It's an odd mix, the life of a playwright.

  

  Laura Wade
  • Life
  • Odd
  • Playwright

• I believe we should work to end all racism in American society and staunchly defend the inherent rights of every person.

  

  Rand Paul
  • Work
  • Believe
  • American

• I used to just sit in the living room and make up songs on the keyboard.

  

  Fleur East
  • Up
  • Living
  • Just

• One never knows whether people have principles on principle or whether for their own personal satisfaction.

  

  Karel Capek
  • People
  • Principles
  • Personal

• Write out the story - rapidly, fluently, and not too critically - following the second or narrative-order synopsis. Change incidents and plot whenever the developing process seems to suggest such change, never being bound by any previous design.

  

  H. P. Lovecraft
  • Change
  • Design
  • Process

• For years Don Imus was just – boy, he was merciless in his criticism of me. Maybe it was justified, but that didn't mean it didn't hurt.

  

  Dan Rather
  • Me
  • Hurt
  • Boy

• I believe that everybody has the right to view his or her own body as a palette. However, I think intellectuals should at least try to be role models.

  

  Camille Paglia
  • Believe
  • Body
  • View

• That is a big danger, losing your inspiration. When I work in film and television I try to do each take a little differently. I never want to do the same thing twice, because then you're not being spontaneous, you're just recreating something.

  

  Karl Urban
  • Film
  • Inspiration
  • Television

• I am frequently attacked.

  

  Indira Gandhi
  • Attacked

• As humans, we all want our own island. Of course, the truth is, we're never going to get it.

  

  T. C. Boyle
  • Truth
  • Want
  • Truth Is

• I go on giving interviews because I've been brought up to support the projects I'm involved in. When you've enjoyed working on a production, you want to do them a favour.

  

  Francesca Annis
  • Up
  • Want
  • Giving

• I don't think even when you find a person, you can be completely honest, ever. There's still pieces of you that you don't give away. I do believe you always need that place where it's just you, your thoughts, no one else's judgment or anything.

  

  Alicia Keys
  • Believe
  • Person
  • Thoughts

• The most dangerous part of the race is early evening and especially early morning. It's the twilight zone. Either you're going into darkness and the sun is dropping down, or you're coming out of the darkness and the sun is coming up. At the same time, you've got new drivers coming in and feeling their way around the circuit.

  

  Allan McNish
  • Up
  • Time
  • Feeling

• As freely as the firmament embraces the world, or the sun pours forth impartially his beams, so mercy must encircle both friend and foe.

  

  Friedrich Schiller
  • World
  • Friend
  • Sun

• I take my work enormously seriously. When I do something, it has to feel right. Everything has to be right.

  

  Mads Mikkelsen
  • Work
  • Feel
  • Seriously

• When I was doing 'A Raisin in the Sun' with Sean Combs, we began in bed, and he would give me 10 kisses and an 11th for luck before the play began.

  

  Audra McDonald
  • Sun
  • Luck