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Jim McKay Quotes

Right now the thing that I have learned the most is to be grateful that I have finally gotten to a point where I am being paid to make films, after eight years.

Jim McKay

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: journalist
Nationality: american
Birth: September 24, 1921 - June 7, 2008

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Grateful I Am I Have Learned Now

I can't tell you what an honor it is, to even be mentioned in the same breath with Arthur Ashe. This is something I certainly will treasure forever.

Jim Valvano

Honor You Treasure Will Same Tell

If you don't love acting more than anything else, don't do it. It's not a normal life. It will take you away from your family, friends and life in general.

Johanna Braddy

Life Family Love Friends You Acting

Perfectionism and procrastination have such a fine line. You say, 'Well, I want it to be good. I want it to be perfect.' But what you're really doing is not doing your work. You're putting off showing up and being visible because then you're going to be judged, and it might suck.

Jen Sincero

Work Good Doing Showing Up You Want

I think a lot about our globalized world, our global interconnectedness, and it really saddens me when I see people 'othering,' when I see people who are willing to live narrowly.

Maya Soetoro-Ng

Live People Me World Think See

In my first 15 or 20 years of authorship, I was almost never asked to give a speech or an interview. The written work was supposed to speak for itself, and to sell itself, sometimes even without the author's photograph on the back flap.

John Updike

Work Speak Speech Back Sometimes

I'm from the US of A. Born in Des Moines, raised in the New York suburbs.

Stephen Collins

New York Born New Us Suburbs Raised

We'll support the government on issues if it's essential to the country but our primary responsibility is not to prop up the government, our responsibility is to provide an opposition and an alternative government for Parliament and for Canadians.

Stephen Harper

Responsibility Government Support Up

We're all given some sort of skill in life. Mine just happens to be beating up on people.

Sugar Ray Leonard

Life People Skill Up Mine Just

Waco was supposed to be a way for the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, and Firearms and the Clinton administration to prove the need for a ban on so-called assault weapons.

Steve Stockman

Alcohol Prove Way Need Weapons

A lot of the time, I don't actually relate to what I'm writing about in pop songs.

Sia

Time Writing Pop Songs Relate About

I am as miserable as anyone - sometimes.

Tom Stoppard

I Am Sometimes Miserable Am Anyone

I kind of dwindled into acting.

Ron Silver

Acting Kind