M.H. McKee Quotes

Story is about eternal, universal forms, not formulas.

We rarely know where we are going; writing is a discovery.

I just want to give people something to dance to, and something to cry to, and laugh to and fall in love to.

Oh, by the way, I tend to use a lot of profanities. I do that for a reason: I like it.

Ninety percent of what we create is not our best work.

I cannot be a character in a bad movie. I can't be.

The students realize that it's their life I'm talking about: it's out of balance, they're struggling to put it into balance. How are they going to do it?

It seems to me that the civilized human being is a skeptic someone who believes nothing at face value.

I think you should aim for the stars - and hopefully avoid ending up in the clouds!

I'd live in Glasgow if I could. I can't praise it enough; it's the nicest place I have ever worked and I've worked in a lot of nice places.

If I could have any power, I think flying would definitely be up there! Along with speaking every language.

Where I grew up in the North-east, the community there, and the way people relate to one another, goes very deep. But I don't define myself as a Northerner in that I don't live in the North.

I think one day I'd like to win an Oscar.

I'd like to go the Cher route and act and sing and write and have a TV show and do it all.

I'm a really visual artist, and I love writing treatments for music videos, photo shoots, fashion, and all the visual parts that go along with making an album.

In real life I'm pretty easy going and pretty chill, I'm not the party girl who will go wild and crazy necessarily.

I tend to get a little quirkier and crazier with my lyrics and come from a different angle when I'm writing for myself.

When I write for myself, I just get to be myself.

I have a reoccurring dream that I'm in the ocean in New Zealand and everything is completely upside down, because it's on the other side of the planet.

It's nice to really have the freedom to write what I want.

If you can take it to the next level and really tell an interesting story in a unique and fresh way, then I feel like that's a great song.

Ke$ha is super talented and super fun and always down to party - I love that girl.

I think I've learnt a lot about bullying and how to deal with bullying and how to get over that and to just be yourself and forget the haters.

As long as I can reach somebody, then I feel like I'm doing my job.

I think its nice to be able to make a product, put it out there and let other people decide what they think.

I think I'm very open and friendly and warm.

I am a little crazy but when I'm on-stage, then I really get to play it up and perform and be over the top and it's like an outlet. It's fun to 'wild' out.

I was writing songs as a kid about leprechauns and Catwoman and teapots - whatever it is that little girls wanna sing about.

It's just funny that anybody would care at all to take apart the words that I write. It's kind of cool!

I love really kitschy bad movies. Showgirls is one of my favorites. I saw House of Versace and died. I'm a big fan of made-for-TV movies because those are instant classics, naturally.

I love writing with Adam Lambert. He's really funny and very fun, he's a great friend.

Maybe I'd like to be a little more than friends with Ryan Gosling, but I'd just like to hang out occasionally.

If the story you're telling, is the story you're telling, you're in deep shit.

True character is revealed in the choices a human being makes under pressure - the greater the pressure, the deeper the revelation, the truer the choice to the character's essential nature.

Today our children are our reflection. Tomorrow they will be our shadows.

Creativity is choice-making.

Scholarly acumen sharpens taste and judgment, but we must never mistake criticism for art. Intellectual analysis, however heady, will not nourish the soul.

There was a little girlWho had a little curlRight in the middle of her forehead.When she was good, she was very, very good.And when she was “bad”, Her Papa loved her anyway.

Rock-a-bye Baby In the tree topWhen the wind blows The cradle will rock.When the bough breaksThe cradle will fallAnd Mama will catch you Cradle and all!

I will hold my self to a standard of grace which is Christ's gift, not perfection which is Satan's trap.

A chief cause of worry and unhappiness in life is trading what we want most for what we want at the moment.

You do not keep the audience's interest by giving it information, but by withholding information ....

Curiosity is the intellectual need to answer questions and close open patterns. Story plays to this universal desire by doing the opposite, posing questions and opening situations.

Quality storytelling inspires quality dialogue.

Y’know, it’s not that we need equality. Because everyone’s already equal, it’s just that a ton of idiots lost the memo. Indeed, everyone just needs to be TREATED like the equal they already are.

Old Mother Hubbard Went to the cupboard To get her dear dog a bone.Though the cupboard was bare, When she focused elsewhereHer heart overflowed with fun!

Wisdom is knowing the right path to take. Integrity is taking it.

I know 'Hallelujah' isn't actually a Christmas song, but it has that cozy, haunting vibe that sounds like a winter's night and belongs by a fire.