Kevin Macdonald Quotes
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If you actually want to change your world, there is a better way of doing it than blowing yourself up.
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I've been grateful that 'Time's' reach and mandate is so broad; anything you're interested in, you can usually write about.
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I'm definitely a Tory. My dad was a Conservative councillor, and I spent years as a child knocking on doors with him. I'm a Tory because I'm passionate about business and enterprise. But I am also a compassionate Conservative. There should always be a net through which no one should fall.
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He was what I often think is a dangerous thing for a statesman to be - a student of history; and like most of those who study history, he learned from the mistakes of the past how to make new ones.
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But you are absolutely right that when the international community decides to help in a meaningful manner a country like Afghanistan, then coordination between the various actors that are involved in these processes is very, very difficult indeed.
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There are lots of things I am not good at. I'm not that good a singer. And I'm a good dad but a lousy husband because I work far too much and am not at home as much as I would like.
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My husband is a brilliant cook - enthusiastic and good - but he has not mastered the clearing up as you go along.
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I know I should keep this a secret, but Celine Dion is something of an icon to me.
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The 'war on terror' has created a culture of fear in America.
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Nothing wrong with making money.
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The characters in my stories all have quite loud lives in my head. It's a relief to get them on the page. Often they come from people I've noticed or overheard - but that is only a part of them. It's only by writing that I discover who these people really are.
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Some actors are supposed to be very difficult, but I've not found that to be the situation.
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A teacher's major contribution may pop out anonymously in the life of some ex-student's grandchild. A teacher, finally, has nothing to go on but faith, a student nothing to offer in return but testimony.
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I will declare when I am in the gravel, From the maintenance of gifts, From being numbered, from going to be a martyr In the reckoning of Saint Segerno. From a word when sin may be to me, Let there be no sigh from those that hear me.
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...The pursuit of mathematics is a divine madness of the human spirit...
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He never gave us a script and we never asked - we were safe in his hands.
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Being single is like liking a Phil Spector record.
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If man doesn't learn to treat the oceans and the rain forest with respect, man will become extinct.
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By the time I got to Northwestern University in 1930, I was a football bum more interested in being an All-Star player and signing on with a pro team than going after a newspaper job.
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In a family of all girls, I was always the 'boy' in my mind - the protector, the masculine one. No one would ever have to worry about me.
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If people really stopped and realized how much art and creative people move the world versus politics and religion, I mean it’s not even up for debate. An artist at least creates things, puts things into the world. Where as these other people are destroying things, taking things out of the world.'
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Asking someone to describe what something sounds like is like telling a blind person to guess what I look like.
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I suppose making documentaries is like doing journalism on film.
