Denis McDonough Quotes

I'm indebted to the teachers who shaped me - from the Sisters of St. Joseph at St. Croix Catholic elementary to the monks of St. John's in Minnesota to my professors at Georgetown.

Denis McDonough

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: public
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: December 2, 1969

Topics

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Know what the old masters did. Know how they composed their pictures, but do not fall into the conventions they established. These conventions were right for them, and they are wonderful. They made their language. You make yours. All the past can help you.

Robert Henri

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Big stories have lots of angles, and you have to decide what part of that story you want to address.

Steve Breen

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My best move is probably my pull up jump shot.

Steve Nash

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I love anything by Joan Didion. Incidentally, she was one of the local moms when I was growing up in Point Dume. She always reminded me a little bit of my mother, so I feel a great affinity. I love the precision of Didion's writing. There's a construction and a craftsmanship to her sentences that's imbued with so much emotion.

Rob Lowe

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My uncle's dying wish - he wanted me on his lap. He was in the electric chair.

Rodney Dangerfield

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I'm grateful to songwriting and recovery to bringing me to a place of peace.

Mary Gauthier

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I'll take photographs with kids. People who want to take photographs with me. People who like the movies. People who supported me. I'll do that all day, all night, that's fine. But the bombardment of the paparazzi is just... I truly don't understand. It just feels like this kind of gluttonous, horrific sport. It's like sport.

Johnny Depp

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When we exercise, it feels like we're really out there doing something, whereas spending a few minutes with your eyes closed in meditation may feel a little, well, wimpy.

Dean Ornish

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It is extremely rewarding for me to be recognised by the University of Aberdeen. This is where I grew up and nurtured my dreams.

Brian Binnie

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I wish you a tolerable Thursday. That's all any of us can hope for.

April Winchell

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People can be a bit flagrant when they're having an affair. Most of the time, there's an element of it where they want to be discovered because they're in crisis. They need the boil to be burst, in some way, for a resolution.

Anne-Marie Duff

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As a customer, I would see pieces that I loved and then find out they weren't being made because no store had ordered them.

Aslaug Magnusdottir

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