Martina McBride Quotes

I think that being thrown into instant fame must be, at times, difficult.

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• My last series was on A.B.C., a one-hour called 'My Generation'. Critics liked it. I was on for two weeks, and that was a tough one.

  

  Warren Littlefield
  • Generation
  • Tough
  • Last

• Young people do not watch television; they are on the Internet.

  

  Umberto Eco
  • People
  • Internet
  • Television

• I had a really dark time after the Olympic Games... But then I said to myself, 'This is a sport that's blessed me with a home, with an education, with some money. I can't hate this sport. This sport took me out of Louisiana. This sport gave me a chance when so many people don't get a chance. And I love this sport.'

  

  Daniel Cormier
  • Time
  • Love
  • Education

• There is probably no such thing as a good divorce, but clinging to an old idea of how relationships are unraveled can make a bad thing even worse.

  

  Laura Wasser
  • Good
  • Bad
  • Old

• I think the difficult thing is the transition between TV competition series and going into the actual music industry. There still seems to be a slight disconnect there.

  

  Adam Lambert
  • Music
  • Think
  • Competition

• Actually, I can write anywhere - airport lounges, in bed, on a rattling train going north.

  

  Kate Mosse
  • I Can
  • Train
  • Bed

• Make-up is an extension of your clothes.

  

  Naomie Harris
  • Up
  • Clothes
  • Your

• Before I started writing, I'd never read much fiction. I was more interested in non-fiction. I'm taking the same approach to theatre: I can operate from a position of ignorance and make up my own rules instead of being bound by customs and practice.

  

  Irvine Welsh
  • Up
  • Writing
  • Practice

• Memory, so complete and clear or so evasive, has to be ended, has to be put aside, as if one were leaving a chapel and bringing the prayer to an end in one's head.

  

  Harold Brodkey
  • Prayer
  • End
  • Leaving

• I had a friend, and we always used to pretend to be twins. We had this fantasy about going to Hollywood together. We were about four.

  

  Radha Mitchell
  • Together
  • Friend
  • Twins

• Let who will scoff and revile – I will not remain silent; neither will I conceal the signs and wonders which have been shown to me by the Lord, who knew all things even before the time of this world, many years before, just as they happened.

  

  Saint Patrick
  • Time
  • World
  • Lord

• Seek not for fresher founts afar, just drop you bucket where you are.

  

  Sam Walter Foss
  • You
  • Where
  • Drop

• I love drama - mum calls me a Drama Queen!

  

  Tahyna Tozzi
  • Drama
  • Queen
  • Mum

• Ralph Fiennes and Edward Norton are among my favorite actors.

  

  Vance Joy
  • Favorite
  • Ralph
  • Edward

• All the busy little creatureschasing out their destinies.Living in their poolsthey soon forget about the sea... - Natural Science (1980)

  

  Neil Peart Rush
  • Science
  • Sea

• Man, the living creature, the creating individual, is always more important than any established style or system.

  

  Bruce Lee
  • Important
  • Style

• Kids increase people's risk of eviction.

  

  Matthew Desmond
  • People
  • Kids
  • Risk

• Children didn't shield families from eviction: They exposed them to it.

  

  Matthew Desmond
  • Children

• In my life, there have been people that I was convinced would be around forever, and yet, somehow they managed to drift away after a couple of years. Likewise there have been people who have begun as casual acquaintances but become more important with each passing year.

  

  Alana Stewart
  • People
  • Life
  • Important

• A good producer brings out the best in the artist he's working with. You shouldn't be able to listen to something and say, 'So-and-so produced this album.'

  

  Eddie Van Halen Van Halen
  • Good
  • Best
  • Artist

• I was the all-American face. You name it, honey - American Dairy Milk, Metropolitan Life insurance, McDonald's, Burger King. The Face That Didn't Matter - that's what I called my face.

  

  Debra Winger
  • Life
  • American
  • King

• The most popular form of altruism is giving to others the advice you cannot use yourself.

  

  Evan Esar
  • Advice
  • Altruism

• I think that being thrown into instant fame must be, at times, difficult.

  

  Martina McBride