Macnelly Quotes

#1. My guess is that the editor [Cincinnati Post] wanted his own Jeff MacNelly (a Pulitzer winner at 24), and I didn't live up to his expectations. My Cincinnati days were pretty Kafkaesque.

Bill Watterson

#2. The only way to deal with yourself as an actor is to follow the emotional truth of what you have to do under the imaginary circumstances. And as you develop you become confident. You come to believe in what you're doing and trust it because it's out of you.

Sanford Meisner

#3. To tempt and be tempted are closely allied; and in spite of all the finest moral maxims buried in the mind, when emotion interferes, when feeling makes its appearance, one is already much further involved that one realizes, and I have still not learnt how to prevent its appearance.

Catherine The Great

#4. My sadness brings me tears of joy.

P.B. Gookenschleim

#5. I grew up in the church. I was raised in the church.

Quinton Aaron

#6. I didn't break up with you because of your sperm.

Cynthia Hand

#7. I was not a disaster.
I had been taken apart and put back together again, and this version of me was unbreakable.

Maggie Stiefvater

#8. All institutions are prone to corruption and to the vices of their members.

Morris West

#9. The Opera reminds me of my tax audit. It was in a language I didn't understand. And it ended in tragedy.

Jeff MacNelly

#10. I'm very conscious of people having pretty short attention spans: I know, I'm guilty of it. I'm 17 now: what happens by the time I'm 21, am I a burn-out or something? Will they still listen to my record?

Lorde

#11. A dry soul is wisest and best.

Heraclitus

#12. A career is a job that has gone on too long.

Jeff MacNelly

#13. We Indians really should be better liars, considering how often we've been lied to.

Sherman Alexie

#14. There's nothing you can learn in three years studying media at university that you can't learn in just one month on a local paper.

Kelvin MacKenzie

#15. Writing is simple. First you have to make sure you have plenty of paper ... sharp pencils ... typewriter ribbon. Then put your belly up to the desk ... roll a sheet of paper into the typewriter ... and stare at it until beads of blood appear on your forehead.

Jeff MacNelly

#16. When I work out, I have energy and feel good about myself.

Jessica Alba

#17. Above average intelligence has always run in my family. Ambition, however, has always walked with a limp.

Jeff MacNelly

#18. You don't always have to teach the the corrective lesson. Sometimes you can teach the lesson of patience and non-engagement.

Bryant McGill