Nancy McKeon Quotes
Quotes to Explore
-
I've been writing music since 4th grade, and I love putting words together and expressing things in a way that you can move your head to and you can really relate to, because I have a lot to say.
-
There's something that happens with the collection of a large amount of data when it's dumped into an Excel spreadsheet or put into a pie chart. You run the risk of completely missing what it's about.
-
My purpose as a writer is to communicate in such a way as to challenge the thinking of readers and touch their hearts.
-
We are two brothers: I am a doctor; my brother is an engineer.
-
I have a personal ambition to live my life honestly and honor the true love that I've had and also the people I've had around me.
-
When I do retire, I will miss the trips with the team, the jokes with my teammates, the habits: having breakfast with them, playing with them, all the little things.
-
With a project like 'The 5th Wave,' you do something you would never do in your normal life; I would never have had S.W.A.T. training or boot camp, and there's something really cool about learning stuff like that that's really fun about our job.
-
Almost all the early Christian Fathers were opposed to the death penalty, even though it was of course standard practice across the ancient world.
-
I have to make little movies. I have to sit and film.
-
Excellence is a process that should occupy all our days.
-
Pregnancy is a very creative phase for me.
-
A lot of labels are hiring a lot more accountants than people that know music.
-
Guinea pigs are quite difficult to draw, I think, because they're so furry.
-
Without vanity, without coquetry, without curiosity, in a word, without the fall, woman would not be woman. Much of her grace is in her frailty.
-
People will say, 'Just one picture please.' That is how it starts. There is just one picture and then somebody else wants another. And when I say 'No' I feel guilty.
-
A pitcher will never be a big winner until he hates hitters.
-
If you create great opportunities, people around the world will come support your dream.
-
I always feel I had a very lucky life. For example, I sure didn't want to go in the army: when I was drafted in the Korean War, I wanted to go as a photographer. But luckily, they put me in the infantry - luckily because the official photographer was photographing the medal awarding and all the official situations.
-
The objective of producing useful devices has strongly influenced the choice of the research projects with which I have been associated.
-
It was really weird dealing with the media. I had no idea how to handle it.
-
Being taken seriously, for a young writer, is a wonderful form of encouragement, but at the same time, I don't think one should ever feel like attempting a kind of artistic endeavor is beyond your scope just because of age or inexperience.
-
Isn't it the moment of most profound doubt that gives birth to new certainties? Perhaps hopelessness is the very soil that nourishes human hope; perhaps one could never find sense in life without first experiencing its absurdity.
-
It's a terrible poison, writing.
-
Normally I don't watch myself, because I'm not very objective.
