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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It's frightfully important for a writer to be his age, not to be younger or older than he is. One might ask, 'What should I write at the age of sixty-four,' but never, 'What should I write in 1940.'
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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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Our particular team right now is not a team that does well resting on any kind of sense of accomplishment. We still have to drive ourselves and drive the team forward.
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Any story you've heard of my behavior is probably true.
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Lots of opera singers are just boring.
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To put someone in jail for using drugs in the privacy of his hotel room is just barbaric.
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I suppose making documentaries is like doing journalism on film.
