Bonnie McKee quote: "I saw Tina Turner do 'Proud Mary' on TV, and it was so electrifying and such a unique experience. I remember crying out of excitement, and I knew that I wanted to be a performer and make people feel excited and moved, and that's why I gravitated towards it."

I like big, soaring melodies and fun, splashy lyrics. Maybe like what Blondie would do in 2013.
BONNIE MCKEE

I was born in Northern California and lived there until I was about eight years old. Then my parents...
BONNIE MCKEE

I started writing my own songs from the time I was a little kid. I would write my own lyrics to othe...
BONNIE MCKEE

I like to think of myself as the people's pop star a little bit. I respect Lady Gaga so much, an...
BONNIE MCKEE

I thought back to my middle-school experience of having slumber parties and watching Romeo + Juliet ...
BONNIE MCKEE

People like hearing songs that sound like something they've heard before, that's reminiscent...
BONNIE MCKEE

I was discovered out of nowhere. I didn't have family that was in the industry. I didn't kno...
BONNIE MCKEE

I've always had a teenage thread running through my music. On my first album, I had a song calle...
BONNIE MCKEE

A line has to have a certain number of syllables, and the next line has to be its mirror image.
BONNIE MCKEE

When I moved to Seattle in fourth grade, I joined the Seattle Girls' Choir. It's a world-cla...
BONNIE MCKEE

I'm visually stimulated, so I watch TV, movies, even Pinterest. A song could come from something...
BONNIE MCKEE

I love that, even after jumping through hoops forever, I can still get that buzz, that hook. That...
GINA MCKEE

Stories are the creative conversion of life itself into a more powerful, clearer, more meaningful ex...
ROBERT MCKEE

Secure writers don't sell first drafts. They patiently rewrite until the script is as director-ready...
ROBERT MCKEE

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

Classical design is a mirror of the human mind. It's how we see the world.
ROBERT MCKEE

In a world of lies and liars, an honest work of art is always an act of social responsibility.
ROBERT MCKEE

A fine work of art - music, dance, painting, story - has the power to silence the chatter in the min...
ROBERT MCKEE

Aristotle said time is a measure of change, and this movie is about changing in time, through time, ...
ROBERT MCKEE

I would love to do anything involving a good strong character, whether it's in film, TV or theat...
ROXANNE MCKEE

Most of life's actions are within our reach, but decisions take willpower.
ROBERT MCKEE

I criticise myself an awful lot. I do worry to the point that I don't think it's very health...
ROXANNE MCKEE

I think the Fed should be booking rates up, ... It's about time.
BOB MCKEE

I offer my time and energy to assist in crafting a strategy, provide data, or assist in any way you ...
BOB MCKEE

Interest rates have to go up in Hong Kong to defend its currency. That's going to keep the equity ma...
BOB MCKEE

push the Fed to raise rates, that's what I'm worried about.
BOB MCKEE

Those who get left behind now are going to find themselves in much more difficulty to make the sort ...
BOB MCKEE

There's general nervousness that this is a crisis that could start to spread globally and, generally...
BOB MCKEE

keeping Asian currencies pretty volatile.
BOB MCKEE

There were very long days and very short nights. It was mentally and physically challenging and emot...
BOB MCKEE

We had challenges, and we met those challenges. We did so for the citizens of Louisiana and Mississi...
BOB MCKEE

Texas is very concerned and takes (hurricane preparedness) very seriously.
BOB MCKEE

Peter, Peter Pumpkin Eater,
Had a wife and couldn't keep her.
Of course you cannot keep a ...
KRISTEN MCKEE

Old Mother Hubbard
Went to the cupboard
To get her dear dog a bone.
Though the cupb...
KRISTEN MCKEE

There was an old woman
Who lived in a shoe.
She had so many children
And she still k...
KRISTEN MCKEE

Rock-a-bye Baby
In the tree top
When the wind blows
The cradle will rock.
When...
KRISTEN MCKEE

I didn't want to do all of the mags, and we didn't get paid for those shoots - 'Hollyoak...
ROXANNE MCKEE

A distant cousin sent me some genealogy report on my father's side, and it's sort of what I ...
GINA MCKEE

I'd live in Glasgow if I could. I can't praise it enough; it's the nicest place I have e...
ROXANNE MCKEE

We have just lost our chemistry and we better find it in a hurry. We got to get out of it immediatel...
JAY MCKEE

True character is revealed in the choices a human being makes under pressure - the greater the press...
ROBERT MCKEE

It's unbelievable, ... It's a tremendous benefit. It's a faster game, more like an indoor game witho...
BILL MCKEE

There is debate during chambers and you do want to keep some type of order in chambers because it ca...
ANDREW MCKEE

By learning the legislative process, and how things work, when we become adults we're prepared in so...
ANDREW MCKEE

They just threw it to the front and the guy took a good shot. He didn't give me time to react. It wa...
DAVID MCKEE

Not generally. It has shifted from one point to another at times, but they were all in the same gene...
MIKE MCKEE

The bow fisherman would have to be trusted to determine whether the fish he is shooting is legal or ...
TIM MCKEE

Tom certainly stands out as somewhat of a savior in keeping this team in the city. Without his stepp...
JAY MCKEE

I think the Fed should be booking rates up. It's about time.
BOB MCKEE

Do research. Feed your talent. Research not only wins the war on cliche, it's the key to victory ove...
ROBERT MCKEE

We didn't open any doors for them. I just think they got some bounces. I'm not going to say they won...
JAY MCKEE

Mexico is about a $400 million a year business for us, but total revenue for the company is $19.2 bi...
BILL MCKEE

We will certainly cooperate in any way. Because this is a formal, legal investigation, we are really...
BILL MCKEE

Xerox Corporation is the world's leading expert on the copying process -- after all, we invented it.
BILL MCKEE

We have a counseling team already on site working with families, and they will continue as long as n...
BILL MCKEE

Currently there were no issues with his work status.
BILL MCKEE

We've played three tough games against teams that are a little bit better than we are right now, ......
BILL MCKEE

Hornell plays a tough, aggressive style. They've got nice speed. We're trying to get together especi...
BILL MCKEE

I thought we had some great opportunities later in the game. After the second goal we decided we can...
BILL MCKEE

One of the things we try to tell our kids is to not give up the ball over the first five minutes of ...
BILL MCKEE

No matter our talent, we all know in the midnight of our souls that 90 percent of what we do is less...
ROBERT MCKEE

I barked and yelled (at the refs) just to feel a little better. But what can you say when you're 80 ...
MIKE MCKEE

Angry contradiction of the patriarch is not creativity; it's delinquency calling for attention. Diff...
ROBERT MCKEE

Ninety-nine percent of the fish we see are non-game fish.
TIM MCKEE

Boredom is the inner conflict we suffer when we lose desire, when we lack a lacking.
ROBERT MCKEE

Nothing moves forward in a story except through conflict. Writers who cannot grasp this truth, the t...
ROBERT MCKEE

What happens is fact, not truth. Truth is what we think about what happens.
ROBERT MCKEE

When we want mood experiences, we go to concerts or museums. When we want meaningful emotional exper...
ROBERT MCKEE

There was a little girl
Who had a little curl
Right in the middle of her forehead.
Wh...
KRISTEN MCKEE

It's been very exciting. I'm trying to soak up all the knowledge I can and use that information to h...
DAVID MCKEE

My mum certainly isn't a prude, nor is my brother, so I think I'm lucky to have a family lik...
ROXANNE MCKEE

As difficult as it is to find good coaches, we had Dave in the building. We had the personnel we wan...
MIKE MCKEE

Bob told me to get off the rail, which I did, when we came out of the first turn. He settled in real...
JOHN MCKEE

Laredo is going to be a very, very tough team to face, especially opening the series in their buildi...
DON MCKEE

It was most likely the best night we've given (Gorman) in three or four weeks. He only faced less th...
DON MCKEE

Scotty and his wife were going to give him a middle name after the person who scored the winning goa...
DON MCKEE

I think there's a confidence level with coming home to your own building. I thought the spirit was r...
DON MCKEE

Gorman was fantastic, coming in cold and making some saves. Our penalty kill was good. and I thought...
DON MCKEE

Our biggest thing is, as a team, we have to regroup in regards to our attitude and how we're going t...
DON MCKEE

It's been a big factor that kept us in the lead in our division. If that line hadn't stepped forward...
DON MCKEE

What you start looking at that that's a good sign that your goaltending has been outstanding. It can...
DON MCKEE

He's an extremely complete player, but the one thing he brings is an offensive flavor to our attack....
DON MCKEE

Having three all-stars is a great credit to our hockey club. To achieve what we have, as we near the...
DON MCKEE

We realize we can't go around saying and doing what we're actually thinking and feeling. If we all d...
ROBERT MCKEE

I definitely want to. It's part of my long-term plan.
DAVID MCKEE

It was actually a really easy decision to come here. The opportunity was there. The offer was there ...
DAVID MCKEE

I didn't really see a quality scoring chance after that.
DAVID MCKEE

I have huge respect for her. She's one of the few people who is a total artist right across the spec...
FRANCIS MCKEE

Our mean is the highest we've ever had at Boca High.
GEOFF MCKEE

We're working to save money to buy nicer prizes.
GEOFF MCKEE

It's very rare in education that you find research as compelling and consistent. The data says that ...
GEOFF MCKEE

No civilization, including Plato's, has ever been destroyed because its citizens learned too much.
ROBERT MCKEE

I've got a bruise right now the size of a large orange on my knee from a Jaromir Jagr shot.
JAY MCKEE

Come the trade deadline and I haven't renegotiated with Buffalo, absolutely I'll be thinking about i...
JAY MCKEE

I'm just going to concentrate on playing hockey,
JAY MCKEE

At the same time, while I was hoping to get a term deal and didn't, there's are some positives with ...
JAY MCKEE

I came into this contract negotiation with a no-lose situation,
JAY MCKEE

My frame of mind is I'm a Buffalo Sabre, ... I'm here, and I'm more than happy and excited for camp ...
JAY MCKEE

I think if you talk to the majority of the players in the league, he's our guy. . . . We didn't do i...
JAY MCKEE

If I sign the QO, I will be unrestricted after this season and more than likely will be picked up by...
JAY MCKEE

This is not saying that the QO will not at one point still be accepted. We'll just wait and see wher...
JAY MCKEE

In comedy laughter settles all arguments.
ROBERT MCKEE

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

OUr past doesn't define us. It prepares us.
MARALEE MCKEE

Only critical support people will be able to send e-mail with attachments during that period.
JOE MCKEE

What we teach is classical guitar and we have tons of kids doing it. That's kind of what we're aimin...
JEFF MCKEE

We teach year-round, so you can sign up and start tomorrow if you want to. You don't have to wait ti...
JEFF MCKEE

I would say that most people on average stay for probably about at least a couple of years.
JEFF MCKEE

This was kind of a character test for us to see if we'd battle back, and we did.
MIKE MCKEE

I don't feel comfortable talking about my private life, and some people in my private life don&#...
GINA MCKEE

The ornaments of your home are the people who smile upon entering time and time again.
MARALEE MCKEE

I made a list of things I wanted to do with my life, but it ended up mostly being a list of books I ...
ELLIE ROSE MCKEE

This is another small financial milestone toward implementing our new strategic plan. We continue to...
GREGORY M. MCKEE

Distribution has really changed. You can make a record with a laptop in the morning and have it up o...
BONNIE RAITT

When you start so young working, you build a hunger for acting, working, and a busy life.
BONNIE WRIGHT

It's hard to think it's important to try out as cheerleader when you're starring on Broa...
BONNIE BEDELIA

A lot of political music to me can be rather pedantic and corny, and when it's done right - like...
BONNIE RAITT

Exterior shots showing blue skies add a levity and brightness to each show.
BONNIE HAMMER

Sometimes I don't go into the studio for quite a while because I haven't found enough good s...
BONNIE RAITT

Unless you burst into movies as a sex goddess, you're likely to play wives and mothers. I came i...
BONNIE BEDELIA

I think my fans will follow me into our combined old age. Real musicians and real fans stay together...
BONNIE RAITT

I'm just glad that I'm the musical equivalent of a character actress, because blues singers ...
BONNIE RAITT

I want to make a drug. I want the science to be more than imaginary, where I think, 'We're l...
BONNIE BASSLER

My parents put skates on me at age 2, the way it should be if you're serious, and I've always liked ...
BONNIE BLAIR

An unhurried sense of time is in itself a form of wealth.
BONNIE FRIEDMAN

So, okay, I'm not a genius. Vincent Van Gogh and Albert Einstein were geniuses.
BONNIE BASSLER

I have a great affinity for senior citizens.
BONNIE HUNT

I've been lucky enough that I can gather all sorts of experiences and find inspiration by travel...
BONNIE RAITT

Every year there's five cop shows, five medical shows and five 'Law & Orders,' but w...
BONNIE SOMERVILLE

I have never gone out of fashion. And do you know why? Because I never sought it. When you don't...
BONNIE TYLER

I've been singing since I was 16 because I love it - I wanted to be a singer, not a star. There&...
BONNIE TYLER

I'm always buying nice watches for my husband - Bentley Breitlings.
BONNIE TYLER

Thank God for Botox.
BONNIE TYLER

I've been around for such a long time. My first hit record was over 20 years ago and the people ...
BONNIE TYLER

I've been successful, but I haven't had any unwanted attention. To be honest, I've never...
BONNIE TYLER

I don't do every song that comes my way; I'm very choosy.
BONNIE TYLER

When I was in the recording studio, I needed to concentrate on what my voice was doing, which is rat...
BONNIE TYLER

I'm always late to bed - usually after midnight - but then I sleep for around ten hours.
BONNIE TYLER

I've been able to help my family financially since making my first hit record. I bought my paren...
BONNIE TYLER

We were brought up Protestant, and I went to church three times a day on a Sunday. My parents weren&...
BONNIE TYLER

I never enjoyed making videos, even though the 'Total Eclipse' video was nominated for a Gra...
BONNIE TYLER

When I did the video for 'Holding Out For A Hero,' we filmed that on top of the Grand Canyon...
BONNIE TYLER

In 1983 I'd had a number one. I'd sold 6 million copies of Total Eclipse Of The Heart all ov...
BONNIE TYLER

You think the Welsh are friendly, but the Irish are fabulous.
BONNIE TYLER

Fabulous place, Dublin is. The trouble is, you work hard and in Dublin you play hard as well.
BONNIE TYLER

I still love to do the old songs. I know some people don't.
BONNIE TYLER

I'd be happy to live till 80 as long as I was comfortable and in good health. Mind you, ask me a...
BONNIE TYLER

Whenever I sing 'Total Eclipse of the Heart,' the way people sing along with me still excite...
BONNIE TYLER

I love eyeshadow, blushers, and eyelashes with lots of black liquid eyeliner.
BONNIE TYLER

I suppose I don't have to work, but I do love working. I class myself as a working-class girl, a...
BONNIE TYLER

I am very fortunate to be doing something I completely love, so it is certainly not hard to get moti...
BONNIE TYLER

It's sad to know I'm done. But looking back, I've got a lot of great memories.
BONNIE BLAIR

I advise wannabe singers to form a band, practise in your garage if you have to, but do as many char...
BONNIE TYLER

Solar power is the last energy resource that isn't owned yet - nobody taxes the sun yet.
BONNIE RAITT

I was very down as a teenager, very upset because I had gotten hurt in a car accident. But my dad wa...
BONNIE HUNT

My mum was a wonderful mother. She died, aged 80, of Alzheimer's disease, which was dreadful to ...
BONNIE TYLER

I do believe that God blessed me in life with a wonderful family, a successful career, and a loving ...
BONNIE TYLER

My legs tightened up pretty much, and it was a hard last corner for me.
BONNIE BLAIR

Apolo is going to have to keep skating so he can add more gold to his entourage.
BONNIE BLAIR

This Olympics is almost a little sad. It is my final Olympics. There are a lot of good memories.
BONNIE BLAIR

I will remember all the days at the Olympics.
BONNIE BLAIR

I was really happy with my race, though. I beat my personal best by 1.2 seconds.
BONNIE BLAIR

You have to have the right mind-set.
BONNIE BLAIR

I just hope I can get another personal best. If I can do that, I'll be satisfied.
BONNIE BLAIR

I don't fear anything.
BONNIE BLAIR

The sport I love has taken me around the world and shown me many things.
BONNIE BLAIR

No matter what the competition is, I try to find a goal that day and better that goal.
BONNIE BLAIR

I wasn't really expecting me to win the gold in this race. To get another medal for myself and f...
BONNIE BLAIR

Even though I enjoy that head-to-head competition part, one of the things that drove me to long trac...
BONNIE BLAIR

I love short track. I competed in short track, I was a world champion in 1986 but at that point in t...
BONNIE BLAIR

My parents put skates on me at age 2, the way it should be if you're serious, and I've alway...
BONNIE BLAIR

I'm definitely going to miss hearing the sound of that gun.
BONNIE BLAIR

What I've learned from my own journey, and from my family's experience with cancer, is how i...
BONNIE BLAIR

I never could have achieved the success that I have without setting physical activity and health goa...
BONNIE BLAIR

Winning doesn't always mean being first. Winning means you're doing better than you've e...
BONNIE BLAIR

Quakers are known for wanting to give back. Ban the bomb and the civil rights movement and the nativ...
BONNIE RAITT

I don't consider roles like in 'Die Hard' what I do. This is like a hobby. It's fun....
BONNIE BEDELIA

Chicago has definitely played a part in my character development. I love the essence of the city, th...
BONNIE HUNT

I like doing clay work. It's different from drawing on a page because you have something to mold...
BONNIE WRIGHT

I'm very lucky that my husband is a true partner in child-rearing. If I get home late, he gets h...
BONNIE HAMMER

As a dancer I've always checked my body constantly; 'Am I having a good day or am I having a...
BONNIE LANGFORD

'I Will Not Be Broken' has really become very healing for me. Any time you go through a cata...
BONNIE RAITT

I go to the gym regularly, not just for the way I look but because it makes me less cranky, too.
BONNIE LANGFORD

Think about multicellularity on this Earth. Every living thing originally came from bacteria. So, wh...
BONNIE BASSLER

I didn't even know how to judge 'Die Hard 1.' It's not anything I know how to judge....
BONNIE BEDELIA

Anytime you ride against the best in the world, it becomes a learning process.
BONNIE BLAIR

Especially girls, but any kids exposed to music programs and arts programs do much better on their t...
BONNIE RAITT

'Glory' pays tribute to honorable men who faced unimaginable discrimination even as they fou...
BONNIE HAMMER

We mostly don't get sick. Most often, bacteria are keeping us well.
BONNIE BASSLER

My bacteria glow in the dark - no human being doesn't like that.
BONNIE BASSLER

When antibiotics became industrially produced following World War II, our quality of life and our lo...
BONNIE BASSLER

Most bacteria aren't bad. We breathe and eat and ingest gobs of bacteria every single moment of ...
BONNIE BASSLER

Think about all kinds of infectious diseases, like mumps or measles or chicken pox. When a virgin po...
BONNIE BASSLER

What's great about bacteria is you have a surprise every day waiting for you because they're...
BONNIE BASSLER

You live in intimate association with bacteria, and you couldn't survive without them.
BONNIE BASSLER

When antibiotics first came out, nobody could have imagined we'd have the resistance problem we ...
BONNIE BASSLER

Pat Benatar might need a rock band, but I can just sit with a blues guitar for an hour and a half an...
BONNIE RAITT

My love was Bob Dylan, but as I got older I realized a good ballad was a good ballad.
BONNIE RAITT

The world I live in is benefiting from things like satellite radio. Jazz and blues fests are everywh...
BONNIE RAITT

I saw Tina Turner do 'Proud Mary' on TV, and it was so electrifying and such a unique experience. I remember crying out of excitement, and I knew that I wanted to be a performer and make people feel excited and moved, and that's why I gravitated towards it.

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Bonnie McKee

I saw Tina Turner do 'Proud Mary' on TV, and it was so electrifying and such a unique experience. I remember crying out of excitement, and I knew that I wanted to be a performer and make people feel excited and moved, and that's why I gravitated towards it.

Bonnie McKee

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