Craig McDean Quotes

My inspiration can come from anything - films, the street, paparazzi pictures.

Craig McDean

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• Republicans rarely criticize Obama for lack of empathy - in part because liberals have traditionally been seen as standing up for the weak and the vulnerable. Conservatives can be just as empathetic. But they believe that, in most cases, it's not government's role to be the primary dispenser of empathy.

  

  Gary Bauer
  • Up
  • Believe
  • Government

• I chose New Orleans because New Orleans chose me. This city gave me my dad and my love of life.

  

  Irvin Mayfield
  • Life
  • Love
  • Dad

• Deeply consider that it is your duty and interest to read the Holy Scriptures.

  

  Adam Clarke
  • Interest
  • Duty
  • Holy

• I know one of the reasons God gave me kids was to test my patience.

  

  Faith Hill
  • God
  • Kids
  • Me

• I like strong female characters. I try to write them as role models for young girls.

  

  L. J. Smith
  • Strong
  • Young
  • Try

• Again, in Wag the Dog, war has to be declared by an act of congress. But if you go to war, you don't have to declare war. You're just at war and we did that, which is not legal.

  

  Val Kilmer
  • War
  • Dog
  • Legal

• Mucinex were like, 'Would you like to be the Mucinex man? You sound like you're sick right now'. In each spot, they give me a little bit of room to do something strange. And in a world of fractured mediums, where there is no zeitgeist, and you get your comedy from your phone, it's all content.

  

  T. J. Miller
  • World
  • Man
  • Comedy

• I hate camping, but I love summer camp.

  

  Zooey Deschanel
  • Hate
  • Summer
  • Camping

• I guess I'd love to be surprised by something I had never thought of.

  

  Ralph Fiennes
  • Thought
  • Surprised
  • Guess

• Personal shoppers in big department stores are seriously under-used.

  

  Kate Reardon
  • Personal
  • Big
  • Seriously

• My first published work was when I was 19, in 'Playgirl.' It was an odd experience but exciting.

  

  Karen Bender
  • Work
  • Experience
  • First

• We've reached a very low-level equilibrium where it's not clear whose interest it is in to develop Africa... It's not in the interest of those in the aid industry to develop Africa because then there'd be no more industry and 500,000 people would lose their jobs. The only people whose interest it is in is Africans, but they have no voice.

  

  Dambisa Moyo
  • People
  • Voice
  • Africa

• I read 'The Shining' before I ever saw the movie, when I was maybe 12.

  

  Rachel Sklar
  • Movie
  • Read
  • Maybe

• I'm triggering acoustic instruments. I'm literally beating, smacking, hitting, blowing, doing physical things. It's an incredibly exciting way to make music.

  

  Pat Metheny
  • Music
  • Way
  • Doing

• It's been said that the men in my books have been absent, or weak, or creepy.

  

  Kate Atkinson
  • Men
  • Said
  • Creepy

• Fortune always favors the brave, and never helps a man who does not help himself.

  

  P. T. Barnum
  • Help
  • Man
  • Brave

• I think we all attract troublemakers; I don't think it's particularly about anyone. I had it actually as an album title, and I thought it would be really cool to write a song about a girl that's a bit of troublemaker.

  

  Olly Murs
  • Song
  • Girl
  • Cool

• While taking sign language in high school, one of our assignments was to go out and participate in the deaf community, so I really got to know a lot of the group from that. I felt like they needed a little bit more of a voice because people treat them different just because they're hearing impaired.

  

  Zach LaVine
  • People
  • Different
  • School

• Sometimes my arm wants to throw a hard fastball, but my brain doesn't want to throw it that hard.

  

  Zack Greinke
  • Want
  • Brain
  • Sometimes

• Wit invents; inspiration reveals. The inventions of wit are conceits - metaphors and paradoxes - that discover the secret correspondences that unite beings and things among and with themselves; inspiration is condemned to dissipate its revelations - unless a form can be found to contain them.

  

  Octavio Paz
  • Inspiration
  • Found
  • Wit

• In Roslyn, Pennsylvania, we started our real-life family circus. They provided the inspiration for my cartoons. I provided the perspiration.

  

  Bil Keane
  • Family
  • Inspiration
  • Circus

• As I say, we Norwegians love our woolens, and you can buy some beautiful knitwear in Oslo. They might cost you a bit - but they will last.

  

  Jo Nesbo
  • Beautiful

• For it is said, you know, that a letter will always seek a reader; that sooner or later, like it or not, words have a way of finding the light, of making their secrets known.

  

  Kate Morton
  • Reader
  • Seek
  • Letter

• My inspiration can come from anything - films, the street, paparazzi pictures.

  

  Craig McDean
  • Inspiration