Audra McDonald Quotes

I used to think I needed to have drama at all times, or I wouldn't have the fuel for the performance. Now I know that's not true. That doesn't mean I don't feel it, but I recognize it when I do and put the brakes on. And if the performance isn't what it might have been once, I've learned not to judge myself as much.

Audra McDonald

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• Form can only be destroyed accidentally, i.e., on account of its connexion with substance, the true nature of which consists in the property of never being without a disposition to receive form.

  

  Maimonides
  • True
  • Nature
  • Never

• I'm afraid to fail again.

  

  Jackie Chan
  • Afraid
  • Fail
  • Again

• I feel at home in a lot of places, but I am truly an African-American.

  

  Yaya DaCosta
  • Home
  • Places
  • African-American

• Ending Iran's nuclear threat and bringing it into the international community of law-abiding nations is one of the most pressing U.S. foreign policy objectives.

  

  J. B. Pritzker
  • Law
  • Community
  • Policy

• If you can live in Vegas, or visit Vegas, and leave in one piece, still loving it and somehow laughing about it, you should spend at least part of your last night in town doing something that will serve you well no matter where you go next: thank your lucky stars.

  

  J. R. Moehringer
  • Live
  • Night
  • Stars

• I do Yoga. I'd like to say I do it every morning, but I don't, I just don't have the time.

  

  Radha Mitchell
  • Time
  • Morning
  • Yoga

• For everybody that does something bad there's gotta be someone that does something good.

  

  Patrick Wilson
  • Good
  • Bad
  • Someone

• Men must turn square corners when they deal with the Government.

  

  Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
  • Men
  • Government
  • Turn

• You look at science fiction and look how often it talks about being alien, being alienated about the other. Look at the number of blue people - 'Avatar,' I'm looking at you. And it is now easier to find people of color in science-fiction literature and media, but the issues of representation are still really, really troubling.

  

  Nalo Hopkinson
  • People
  • Science
  • Color

• One of the greatest pains to human nature is the pain of a new idea.

  

  Walter Bagehot
  • Nature
  • Pain
  • Human Nature

• I don't want to be a Major League coach.

  

  Barry Bonds
  • Want
  • Coach
  • Major

• I think I'm the kind of person who would be very difficult to employ - I'm pretty annoying, but driven.

  

  Aaron Levie
  • Think
  • Pretty
  • Kind

• The dove act? I'm still working on it. I don't think it's perfect yet. I got my first pair of doves when I was 14 years old. That was the beginning of the formation of that act. So it's been 24 years now that I've been working on it.

  

  Lance Burton
  • Think
  • Perfect
  • Beginning

• Also, now as a result of that show being on, the cruise industry is just growing all over the place. Princess Cruises, who I now represent, is the fastest growning cruise line in the world.

  

  Gavin MacLeod
  • World
  • Growing
  • Princess

• Acting, believe it or not, can get very self-involved! I feel fortunate to have been able to work on things with people who have a very specific point of view and perspective, and who feel like they're doing something very active.

  

  Adam Driver
  • People
  • Work
  • Believe

• China and Russia are regarded as the most formidable cyber threats.

  

  Barton Gellman
  • Most
  • China
  • Cyber

• And a third thing is the understanding of the Church as a community, a communion which is just a hierarchy but the people of God, whose servants are the priests and bishops.

  

  Hans Kung
  • People
  • God
  • Community

• We almost need a revolution in the culture of our thinking about football.

  

  Gary Lineker
  • Thinking
  • Culture
  • Football

• How alike are the groans of love, to those of the dying.

  

  Malcolm Lowry
  • Dying

• To be or not to be...Neither one nor the other.

  

  Emil Cioran

• I love the soul sound that the Bee Gees are into now, and that's the kind of feel that I want to have on all my records. Unfortunately, though, I don't write in that vein. I'm better at writing country-rock music because, while I was recording in Miami, the Eagles were working in the studio next door and I was heavily influenced by their soun.

  

  Andy Gibb
  • Music
  • Soul
  • Feel

• I think that I'm shy and I judge myself. But at the same time, I also have big contradictions. I can be sometimes sure of myself as well. I'm not always fragile and vulnerable. I can feel tough and strong.

  

  Lea Seydoux
  • Time
  • Strong
  • Judge

• There may be a perception that, with franchises, they're all the same, so that limits the ability to experiment. But that's not true. We've always kept two slots open on the menu of each Subway franchise - slots that franchisees can use to come up with their own sandwich ideas.

  

  Fred DeLuca
  • Up
  • May
  • True

• I used to think I needed to have drama at all times, or I wouldn't have the fuel for the performance. Now I know that's not true. That doesn't mean I don't feel it, but I recognize it when I do and put the brakes on. And if the performance isn't what it might have been once, I've learned not to judge myself as much.

  

  Audra McDonald
  • True
  • Drama
  • Judge