Mignon McLaughlin Quotes

Basically my personality, and my talent, and my lyrics are so outstanding that what listeners can tell is that I put so much hard work into what I'm doing because it comes through my music. So I feel that my music for one will get my point across. I write from my heart and my spirit... You know what I'm sayin'? Some people don't know their place, they're just like "Oh I rap because I'm tryin' to get this or that, and I'm doin' this because I want to get money.

[Doing music] is time consuming, will drain you, and stress you out at times. But in the end if you love doing it, and you're putting out music you're proud of, it will never feel like work. It'll just feel like love.

Painters get up and paint. Writers get up and write. I like to get up and act. It's not a big deal. It makes me happy.

The only question that nobody ever asks is: What breaks your heart? I think that should be asked of all "artists."... So, what breaks your heart?

Our passions shape our books, repose writes them in the intervals.

I learned that from my dad: you put your heart into something, you have to protect it, what you're making.

The films an audience really enjoys are the ones that were enjoyable in the making. Yet pleasure in the work can’t be achieved unless you know you have put all of your strength into it and have done your best to make it come alive. A film made in this spirit reveals the hearts of the crew.

The real payoff is the writing itself, that a day when you have gotten your work done is a good day, that total dedication is the point.

I'm definitely feeling whatever's going on pretty hard. It's like playing Barbies. You're holding the Barbies, but all of the action is happening inside of your head. You might be holding them or even speaking out loud, but really, all of the animation is internal. That's sort of how I feel about my writing. And then the really awful thing is that at the end of the day after crying and experiencing things, then you look at what you've written and you're like, "Hmm, there's half a page that's good here." Then you throw out everything else.

Keep me up till five because all your stars are out, and for no other reason…Oh dare to do it Buddy! Trust your heart. You’re a deserving craftsman. It would never betray you. Good night. I’m feeling very much over-excited now, and a little dramatic, but I think I’d give almost anything on earth to see you writing a something, an anything, a poem, a tree, that was really and truly after your own heart.

You put your heart and soul into something, and you really hope that people love it as much as you do.

I love the creative process. That's always been the closest thing to my heart, creating something.

When I make a picture, I make love.

Anything that I write comes from the soul.

I love making movies. But it's a lot of investing your heart and soul. It can be exhausting.

Writing is never, ever easy but I wake up every morning grateful for the gift of being able to do this.

My secret? A desire to work, years of dedication and loving what you do; I can't live without music.

I want to keep publishing books, and writing and spreading my heartsong through the world.

It's hard work making movies. It's like being a doctor: you work long hours, very hard hours, and it's emotional, tense work. If you don't really love it, then it ain't worth it.

Most every book I bring into the world is like birthing a baby; it's a lot of effort!

All throughout filming '12 Years a Slave,' there was a focus like no other. Everyone took ownership of this film and gave their all.

The mark of all good art is not that the thing done is done exactly or finely, for machinery may do as much, but that it is worked out with the head and the workman's heart.

I like to see things that take a lot of time and effort and passion. Which I feel like 'Skins' has.

If business has my mind, music has my heart and soul.

Acting is probably what I'm best at, but there are certain stories kind of rattling around in my head that I like the idea of developing over time.