Mercedes McCambridge Quotes

When I am rehearsing for a play, I try to read nothing that might distract my concentration from the work in progress.

Mercedes McCambridge

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: actress
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: March 16, 1916 - March 2, 2004

Topics

WorkProgressI AmPlayNothingTry

The rest of my work, besides sketching and keeping a diary, which was the most troublesome of all, consisted in making geological and zoological collections.

John Hanning Speke

WorkRestDiarySketchingMost

I started as a model in Mexico - I was traveling, but my base was in Mexico City. And then I studied acting for three years.

Stephanie Sigman

CityActingThreeYearsMexicoThen

I'm very fast, I'm very strong, and I work a lot.

Romelu Lukaku

WorkStrongFastVeryLot

When '12 Years a Slave' got that much attention, everyone started to copy that. That story has to be told, but there are a lot more stories to be told than slavery.

Louis Gossett, Jr.

SlaveryStoryAttentionCopyMore

For this reason poets and artists developed the doctrine of Art for Art's Sake. The community did not appear to need them, so, tit for tat, they did not need the community. This being granted, it was no longer necessary or even desirable to make one's poetry either intelligible or sympathetic to the community.

Louis MacNeice

CommunityArtPoetryNeedReason

To work our way towards a shared language once again, we must first learn how to discover patterns which are deep, and capable of generating life.

Christopher Alexander

LifeWorkDeepLanguageLearnWay

I really believe this team has a lot of potential - whether it's this year or in years to come, I don't know.

Brett Favre

TeamBelievePotentialYearKnow

To hold a man down, you have to stay down with him.

Booker T. Washington

ManYouDownHimHoldStay

I love draping; it's less about proportion than fit and the fabric. It's very specialized and I think when women see the construction, they respond to it immediately.

Prabal Gurung

LoveWomenConstructionThinkSee

I'd rather be known as a songwriter than a guitarist, although I love to play the guitar.

Rick Nielsen

LoveGuitarPlayGuitaristRather

I've done the most awful rubbish in order to have somewhere to go in the morning.

Richard Burton

MorningGoDoneOrderSomewhere

Western civilization, Christianity, decency are struggling for their very lives. In this worldwide civil war, race prejudice is our most dangerous enemy, for it is a disease at the very root of our democratic life.

Mordecai Wyatt Johnson

LifeWarDangerousEnemyPrejudice

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