Kevin Macdonald Quotes
It feels like we're all so familiar now with the traditional three-act structure that, actually, stories that are more complex, more naughty, that allow for disagreement and discussion, are more interesting to us.
Quotes to Explore
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Beethoven's importance in music has been principally defined by the revolutionary nature of his compositions. He freed music from hitherto prevailing conventions of harmony and structure.
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If it's a good song, it's a good song. I'll take it.
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If someone is alone reading my poems, I hope it would be like reading someone's notebook. A record. Of a place, beauty, difficulty. A familiar daily struggle.
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I was always very grateful I was never hot. In the entire length of my career, I haven't been the most adored.
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The idea of the sacred is quite simply one of the most conservative notions in any culture, because it seeks to turn other ideas - uncertainty, progress, change - into crimes.
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Midi is my hobby.
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When I was growing up in Iraq, there was an unbroken belief in progress and a great sense of optimism. It was a moment of nation building.
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There's no such thing as old age, there is only sorrow.
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Years ago, I carved out an identity, and it has always been about having a voice to tell people about stuff I love.
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I'm in favour of religion as a tamer of arrogance. For a Greek Orthodox, the idea of God as creator outside the human is not God in God's terms. My God isn't the God of George Bush.
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It has been a great working experience with Sreenu Vaitla.
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You learn a lot about love before you ever get there. You learn at least as much about love from books as you do from watching your parents.
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My bedroom is my sanctuary. It's like a refuge, and it's where I do a fair amount of designing - at least conceptually, if not literally.
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If I fell into one relationship after another with men who were either emotionally tuned out and unavailable or hotheaded and controlling, or both, it was because I was lacking in good sense about men.
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Men aren't the way they are because they want to drive women crazy; they've been trained to be that way for thousands of years. And that training makes it very difficult for men to be intimate.
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It's interesting for me because in my work, a lot of times, I like to scrutinize the clothes and think what's going to make them look dated, and I do the same with vintage. In vintage, you want something unique and different, but at the same time, something that doesn't make you look like you dress like a grandpa.
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It is better to be young in your failures than old in your successes.
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I wanted passionately to be a priest.
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It is the quality of our work which will please God and not the quantity.
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Madame Chairman, I presume this is to sweep Britain clean of socialism
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I am saying that all predictions concerning climate are highly uncertain.
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As Beckett said, it's not enough to die, one has to be forgotten as well.
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Writing a great script - not just a good one, but a great one - is almost an impossible task.
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It feels like we're all so familiar now with the traditional three-act structure that, actually, stories that are more complex, more naughty, that allow for disagreement and discussion, are more interesting to us.
