Kevin Macdonald Quotes
The tradition has always been that in Roman films, the Romans are always British, and it's usually posh British: Laurence Olivier and his ilk. My take on all this was that it's a metaphor for empire and the end of empire.
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From when I was young, I wanted to be an action hero. I always dreamed about being an action star. So finally, I made it.
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Certainly, last year we did an episode about the census and sampling versus a direct statistic. You just said the word 'census,' and people fall asleep.
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You'd be surprised how self-conscious a lot of women are. That's something I've witnessed firsthand.
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Andy Warhol made fame more famous.
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As a kid, I played my share of football in the street or in a vacant lot. When we were playing in the street, it was more touch football, so we didn't hit each other into cars.
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When the belly is empty, the body becomes spirit; and when it is full, the spirit becomes body.
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You don't have to subject yourself to the sweep and rigor of Bourdieu's book 'Distinction' to feel how thoroughly a lower-calorie version of its ideas has been absorbed into the cultural bloodstream.
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Maybe I over-do the 'not-80s' thing. It should be a part of my life that I've got some sort of pride in, but I've got this huge chip on my shoulder about '80s nostalgia - and it annoys fans sometimes.
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On the day I was born, or possibly on one of the following days, my father went on a walk in the forested hills and thought of a name for me. His first son was called Daniel, and Samuel in memory of one of his forefathers.
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It hasn't been smooth or delightful every minute, there were lean years and rough years, but it's been exciting and good and I'm thrilled to be an actress and a singer and to have spent my life this way.
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My aunt was so attuned to commercials that she could always identify the voiceover actor.
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Heaven is a state of mind, not a location, since Spirit is everywhere and in everything.
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I've always been a geek, so I've always used the Internet, perhaps at first for autopromotion, as many authors do.
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And there are no stars and that you're never really sure who's doing what and what voice is what and, you know what I mean? It's supposed to be quite elusive.
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In different hours, a man represents each of several of his ancestors, as if there were seven or eight of us rolled up in each man's skin, - seven or eight ancestors at least, - and they constitute the variety of notes for that new piece of music which his life is.
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Trying to make a living from poetry is like putting chains on butterfly wings.
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The whole business is a gamble. There's no real stability, you're kind of just floating around like a feather your whole life.
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Slim Shady, Eminem was the old initials.
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I think that being in an environment is a much richer experience than just working on a soundstage.
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Two possibilities: making oneself infinitely small or being so. The second is perfection, that is to say, inactivity, the first is beginning, that is to say, action.
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They don't think we're in touch with modern Britain, or understand modern Britain or like modern Britain.
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I near felt bad he choose to be so evil. I am a forgiving woman, but my pen... oh my wicked wicked hormonal she-pen.
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The tradition has always been that in Roman films, the Romans are always British, and it's usually posh British: Laurence Olivier and his ilk. My take on all this was that it's a metaphor for empire and the end of empire.
