Mcnally Famous Quotes & Sayings
72 Mcnally Famous Sayings, Quotes and Quotation.
I've been working on this feature script for Master Class, a play by Terrence McNally that won a lot of Tonys.— Faye Dunaway
According to the Rand McNally Places-Rated Almanac, the best place to— David Letterman
live in America is the city of Pittsburgh. The city of New York came
in twenty-fifth. Here in New York we really don't care too much.
Because we know that we could beat up their city anytime.
As a young actor, I worked with Kevin McNally and have always thought him brilliant.— Richard McCabe
A certain shoemaker one of the chief towns of Silesia, in the year 1591, September 20, on a Friday betimes in the morning, in the further part of his house, where there was adjoining a little garden, cut his own throat with his shoemaker's knife.— Raymond T. McNally
Accepting the facts is always tough, so we search for forgiveness to this universe everyday to break the shackles, hurt is a prison and I from a very young young age refused to be held prisoner or even conform.— Aidan McNally
Doubt is a storm. We either ride it out, or we change our course. Neither is right or wrong— T.M. McNally
to stay or go. Twenty years ago, should you have really married X, or Y? This college, or that? A life-changing decision one makes becomes the right decision by the fact of simply having been made.
MARIA. So. How is everyone? Can you hear me? I don't believe in microphones. Singing is first of all about projection. So is speech. People are forgetting how to listen. They want everything blasted at them. Listening takes concentration. If you can't hear me, it's your fault. You're not concentrating.— Terrence McNally
For capitalism to develop, customary ties between people and the land must be severed, and communal obligations among people disrupted.— David McNally
Seems Google management figured out it is cheaper, happier and more productive to take care of their employees and create a positive work environment than to burn them to a crisp, make them afraid of the future, and send them off into the highways and byways of California in search of a Taco Bell for lunch.— Joe McNally
Don't pack up your camera until you've left the location.— Joe McNally
I won the vote but shunned the soft parade— Shannon McNally
[ ... ]
I won every battle and lost the war
(Geronimo)
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Work with good directors. Without them your play is doomed. At the time of my first play, I thought a good director was someone who liked my play. I was rudely awakened from that fantasy when he directed it as if he loathed it ... Work with good actors. A good actor hears the way you (and no one else) write. A good actor makes rewrites easy. A good actor tells you things about your play you didn't know.— Terrence McNally
John Loengard, the picture editor at Life, always used to tell me, If you want something to look interesting, don't light all of it.— Joe McNally
Every once in a while, it pays to listen to those annoying characters who are just waiting to tell you how to do your job.— Joe McNally
When shooting a story about someone, their hands should always be on your list to shoot.— Joe McNally
The basic building block of Evernote is a "note." It can be text, a photo, a snapshot from the web, an e-mail, a chart or graph, anything.— Troy Mcnally
Do not be afraid of mistakes. They will be with you always,every time you put a camera to your eye. [If you] shoot safe, and don't at least occasionally court disaster, you are not trying. Time to hang up the camera.— Joe McNally
'American Playhouse' is very supportive of writers. That's really why writers like to write for 'American Playhouse' for very little money. They care about making your play, your script, not some network production. We're treated like playwrights, not like fodder for some machine.— Terrence McNally
Young people have got to start their own theaters, really. All good theater is a kind of mom-and-pop operation. Start your own theater.— Terrence McNally
Well, I know a guy, he's from far far away— Shannon McNally
He's a songwriter, he got something to say
He says, "People in this city are too busy to hang out
This town's so spread out, no one would hear you if you shout"
Everyone's got a script to sell and someplace else they want to be
There's always a lock that would open if you could just find the key"
(It Ain't Easy Being Green)
A professor I had in college used to tell me that if someone won't listen to what you have to say because you're not wearing a tie, then put on a tie, 'cause what you have to say is more important than not wearing a tie. He was right.— Joe McNally
I don't think I've ever written anything even remotely naturalistic. The closest probably would be seen as 'Frankie and Johnny,' and that's only 'cause they eat a sandwich and make an omelet in act two. But it's a romantic fairy tale, and I'm very aware of that. I don't think it helps the actors in my plays to lose themselves in the reality of talking to another person. A good McNally actor always knows he's in a play with an audience.— Terrence McNally
I like to surprise myself. I've always been attracted to projects where I don't know how they're going to turn out.— Terrence McNally
I can't tell you how many pictures I've missed, ignored, trampled, or otherwise lost just 'cause I've been so hell bent on getting the shot I think I want.— Joe McNally
Unpredictability. Accidents. Not good when you're engaging in, say, brain surgery, but when lighting ... wonderful!— Joe McNally
To me, pictures are about memory.— Joe McNally
I've had wonderful collaborators. They're very different, just as actors are. Working on a show with Nathan Lane is different from working on a show with Chita Rivera. It keeps you on your toes because it's different every time.— Terrence McNally
Digital technology has thrown a closed shop wide open, and there are more people out there snapping away than ever before. Some of the pictures are bad, some of them are good, and many of them need some seasoning and direction.— Joe McNally
I can't write about rich people having relationship problems and breaking up in New York. I don't know that world of Terrence McNally. I knew I had to write people who talk the way I talk. And they talked very different than Terrence McNally.— Lucy Alibar
I slid down in the seat and began to weep. I wept for her, for me, but mostly because the siren call of my first big story with a yellow border around it was more powerful than the call of fatherhood.— Joe McNally
Just as Huckleberry Finn was published, the first generation of African Americans raised in the postslavery era began to come of age. Among them were people with musical talent, and at first they went to work in minstrelsy, in the well-worn patterns of show business they'd inherited.— Dennis McNally
No matter how much crap you gotta plow through to stay alive as a photographer, no matter how many bad assignments, bad days, bad clients, snotty subjects, obnoxious handlers, wigged-out art directors, technical disasters, failures of the mind, body, and will, all the shouldas, couldas, and wouldas that befuddle our brains and creep into our dreams, always remember to make room to shoot what you love. It's the only way to keep your heart beating as a photographer.— Joe McNally
We make pictures. At the end of the day, we create something potentially significant that did not exist at the beginning of the day. We go forward, despite the uncertainty. Because this is an act of love and passion, which defies reason and prudence.— Joe McNally
If you're trying to write something that you don't understand and embrace at the very core of you, it's not going to turn out with quite the authenticity and passion it should have.— Terrence McNally
I'm of the school 'Write what you know.' You can educate yourself, but the best writing usually comes from the heart.— Terrence McNally
We professional athletes are very lucky. Unlike most mortals, we are given the privilege of dying twice - once when we retire and again when death takes us.— John McNally
Our pictures are our footprints. It's the best way to tell people we were here.— Joe McNally
Write plays that matter. Raise the stakes. Shout, yell, holler, but make yourself heard. It's time for playwrights to reclaim the theatre. We do that by speaking from the heart about the things that matter most to us. If a play isn't worth dying for, maybe it isn't worth writing.— Terrence McNally
The other contested term is recovered memory therapy. As far as I can tell, no one practicsing psychotherapy today endorses this term as a descriptive of what they do... there are no self-described recovered memory therapists...— Richard J. McNally
There are so many rules about play writing. I'd have a nervous breakdown if I followed them.— Terrence McNally
[on the Irish] A race of poets and wordsmiths, my ass.— M. Edward McNally
![Mcnally Sayings By M. Edward McNally: [on the Irish] A race of poets and wordsmiths, my ass.](https://www.greatsayings.net/images/mcnally-sayings-by-m-edward-mcnally-724660.jpg "Mcnally Sayings By M. Edward McNally: [on the Irish] A race of poets and wordsmiths, my ass.")
He brightened. "Are you Irish then?"— Ashlyn Chase
"My last name is McNally. I'm as Irish as Paddy's pig.
In those days, you had to like one or the other. You couldn't like Sutherland AND Callas.— Terrence McNally
I love live theater. I get my rocks off by doing stand-up, and I am the only actor. But to show up eight times a week and not have that time for myself; to do someone else's lines? When I work for Wendy Wasserstein or Terrence McNally, Neil Simon or even Shakespeare, I do not have the right to change the lines.— Robert Klein
Cheating is not the American way. It is small, while we are large. It is cheap, while we are richly endowed. It is destructive, while we are creative. It is doomed to fail, while our gifts and responsibilities call us to achieve. It sabotages trust and weakens the bonds of spirit and humanity, without which we perish.— Terrence McNally
Buddha left a road map, Jesus left a road map, Krishna left a road map, Rand McNally left a road map. But you still have to travel the road yourself— Stephen Levine
The whole point of life is to maximize your emotional income. Getting that ball and going is a tremendous physical thrill, an ego thrill, a personal power satisfaction.— John McNally
God bless McNally, it's got some fantastic stuff in it, but it's no easy task to make a movie out of.— Faye Dunaway
A lot of my ideas come from McNally Jackson bookstore. One of my favorite things to do is just go there and look through architecture books and interior design books. Something about the aesthetics of space and beautiful images works with my brain.— St. Lucia
Genetic factors may contribute to vulnerability to stressful situations and to personality characteristics that influence the person's risk for entering into potentially hazardous situations (Jang et al., 2003). However, a direct genetic link to traumatization is far from clear (Brewin et al., 2000; Emily et al., 2003; McNally, 2003).— Onno Van Der Hart
If you're not having fun, your pictures will reflect that.— Joe McNally
I may think I have inalienable rights to be alive and happy, but I don't - life is a blessing.— Terrence McNally
The camera's not a camera, really. It's an open door we need to walk through. It's up to us to keep moving our feet.— Joe McNally
hungry spirits so that cattle and crops would not be damaged. The nearness of the spirits meant that all sorts of secrets could be divined on Halloween Night. Young couples roasted nuts on a fire, for example,— Frank McNally
With me, writing is 60% imagination, 30% people you know and 10% you don't know where it comes from.— Terrence McNally
Tioga did you wipe it on my mustache?— Michael McNally
A coach can't be concerned with the poor ballplayer. If the player can't make it, he's got to be out right away. It's a very tough aspect of coaching, and in this aspect I was weak. Also, some guys get fat on coaching, they get healthy and strong, but other guys get ulcers.— John McNally
Too much - too tempting - to have my hands on it and not look at it. Quickly I slid it out, and almost immediately its glow enveloped me, something almost musical, an internal sweetness that was inexplicable beyond a deep, blood-rocking harmony of rightness, the way your heart beat slow and sure when you were with a person you felt safe with and loved. A power, a shine, came off it, a freshness like the morning light in my old bedroom in New York which was serene yet exhilarating, a light that rendered everything sharp-edged and yet more tender and lovely than it actually was, and lovelier still because it was part of the past, and irretrievable: wallpaper glowing, the old Rand McNally globe in half-shadow.— Donna Tartt
Secrets, my mother told me once, are just stories turned inside out.— Janet McNally
If you view your life as a piece of fabric or a tapestry, the photography is the stitching. It keeps everything together.— Joe McNally
At some point, you have to sit down and face the page alone. At some point, the final decisions need to be yours. At some point, you have to give yourself deadlines and stick to them.— John McNally
If you want to be a fiction writer, you need to start reading like a fiction writer. To do so, you need to learn about craft so that the next time you pick up a contemporary short story, you're reading it not as an abstraction floating in formaldehyde, existing simply for the theorist's dull scalpel to saw on, but as a concrete thing constructed out of words and shaped by syntax, brought to life by a writer who made several thousand choices, some large, some small, before letting that imperfect beauty, the story, walk on its own two feet.— John McNally
Photography used to be not for the faint of heart. Its rigors would weed out the not-so-committed pretty quickly. You had to crank the f-stop ring yourself!— Joe McNally
Whenever you think you're writing what other people want to hear from you, and that it'll be commercial, you're doomed to disaster. Writing has to be as truthful and specific as we can make it. The minute we think that we're reaching more people and pleasing them, we get general. And audiences sense that and turn away, shun us.— Terrence McNally
Technology has eliminated the basement darkroom and the whole notion of photography as an intense labor of love for obsessives and replaced them with a sense of immediacy and instant gratification.— Joe McNally
A career in photography is a journey without a destination.— Joe McNally
You've gotta taste the light, like my friend and fellow shooter Chip Maury says. And when you see light like this, trust me, it's like a strawberry sundae with sprinkles.— Joe McNally
Ansel Adams rattled around the Southwest with his battered truck and his view camera, which looked like a giant accordion with a lens attached to it.— Joe McNally
I've been a big fan always of getting my camera in different places and trying to seek the unusual vantage point.— Joe McNally
The first year holds trauma unlike any other. The second year is a time of learning hard lessons, facing harsh realities, understanding that you, alone, are responsible for the life change you must accept, the new life you must develop.— Shirley Reeser Mcnally
Remember to have a little faith. When you die, I believe, God isn't going to ask you what you published. God's going to ask you what you wrote.— T.M. McNally
I want to make something that's fleeting and impermanent but so real and deep and loud.— Janet McNally
