Jacqueline McKenzie Quotes

You don't choose. I just go where the work is.

Jacqueline McKenzie

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WorkYouChooseGoWhereJust

It has been pointed out to me, more than once, that for someone who chose a profession steeped in procedure and protocol, I had little use for either.

Joe Jamail

MeSomeoneMoreOutLittleBeen

I'm the classic absent-minded professor: I'm very focused on something, and meanwhile, I've left the refrigerator door open for hours.

Jewel

DoorFocusedClassicOpenSomething

'Six Feet Under,' for me, was college. Alan Ball and Alan Poul ran that show and really taught me what it meant to really run a show in a classic way.

Jill Soloway

CollegeMeFeetRunWayClassic

To be in the wonderful world of entertainment, you have to be optimistic.

Robert Stigwood

WorldYouEntertainmentWonderful

What happens often - although I'm not particularly a victim of this sort of thing - is that somebody will make a quote, or invent a remark and it gets printed, ends up on the 'net and it becomes currency. And some of them are so bizarre!

Robert Palmer

WillVictimUpQuoteCurrencySome

I think when you're very dedicated to something and you're engaged fully, you become a giver.

Russell Simmons

ThinkYouBecomeSomethingGiver

We were not as rich as the Rockefellers or Mellons, but we were rich enough to know how rich they were.

Louis Auchincloss

RichEnoughKnowHowWere

I don't remember a lot of the good times from my days with the Truckers.

Jason Isbell

GoodGood TimesRememberDaysTimes

I'm a pack rat, like most people.

Donald Baechler

PeopleRatLikeMostPack

If someone's going to talk about me, I'd want it to be positively. The way many write, you'd think only bad things were interesting. If we don't think positive, what's the use? It's a lot more fun, you know.

Dorothy Stratten

PositiveFunMeThinkInteresting

There has always been a strange dissonance between the public and the private in Nigeria.

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

StrangeAlwaysBeenBetweenNigeria

Certain things can't be approximated, so I'm always interested in getting in another way, one which makes the reader bend in closer to the scene even if that scene, especially if that scene, is painful... Brutal language isn't necessarily the most truthful way of describing a brutal moment.

Anne Michaels

MomentLanguageWayBendAlways

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