Kevin Macdonald Quotes
A publisher friend of mine suggested that I write a book about my grandfather, who had just died. I had nothing else to fill my empty days with, so I started work on this book. While researching it - watching lots of movies, talking to moviemakers - I became interested in movies and started making documentaries.
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I'm optimistic about people and about the planet and about nature. I think it's resilient, like people are.
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Every writer I know got their start in a library somewhere. We read a book, and we thought, 'I want to do that.'
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I've listened to female vocalists my whole life. That's what I love. I still listen to guys' vocals and don't get taken aback a lot.
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And I am a conservative. Sometimes conservatives forget we are supposed to conserve, to save, to be efficient. Plus our dependence on other sources of energy is causing our country to not be independent and to really be vulnerable. So this is a security issue.
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We got a chance to go and play in some places that the usual European tour by an American band didn't go to.
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I have always believed that one should not be scared of losing, I think that really is the key.
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I don't think the lifestyle that I have, the things going on in my life right now, you could put that on any 23-year-old kid. But, you know, I was raised right, and I'm prepared for whatever.
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Throughout my life I have always been amazed that people couldn't listen to other people, that they couldn't hear their best intent, that there seemed to be an enormous need to demonize.
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But for my faith in God, I should have been a raving maniac.
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I have had an amazing career for a man who hits things for a living.
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Learning to read the Bible in the light of the times in which it was written is critical.
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When the curtain falls, the best thing an actor can do is to go away.
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I do find walking is fundamental to my creative process.
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I love Adele; she's a timeless, classic beauty. I think she's beautiful. She's just a real woman.
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I'd love to play a Bond villain. Yeah, I'd love to play a Bond villain. Everyone always says this to me; they always say, 'You've got to be a Bond villain', 'We're going to make you a Bond villain...' But they've never, ever approached me, I've never had a whiff of it. I think I'd love to play a Bond villain; I'd have great fun.
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I was 19, and I thought I should settle down and get a real job, and what was I doing living this dream world?
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The general belief is that communists in the United Nations come only from the Iron Curtain countries, but this isn't so. We must remember that many of the representatives of free countries are members of the local Communist parties. If you add them all up, you will see they have an amazing degree of control.
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Growing up, I thought I was going to be Madonna. I wanted to be a pop star. I wanted to dance and sing.
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In the sequence where I am burned at the stake, everything was so casual and hazardous that the bottom of my dress caught fire, and the grips became hysterical as they tried to pull me off the stake.
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The only thing that will be remembered about my enemies after they're dead is the nasty things I've said about them.
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When there's pressure, I believe people will break under it or a diamond will be created.
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Work takes me away from my wife, Sue, and my life in Santa Barbara.
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I think that curiosity happened on these reviews where I was just a guest of the reviewer, because it introduced me to new cuisines and to the idea of cooking as a mechanism for studying other cultures and understanding other parts of the world.
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A publisher friend of mine suggested that I write a book about my grandfather, who had just died. I had nothing else to fill my empty days with, so I started work on this book. While researching it - watching lots of movies, talking to moviemakers - I became interested in movies and started making documentaries.
