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.
Kevin Macdonald
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I'm optimistic about people and about the planet and about nature. I think it's resilient, like people are.
Viggo Mortensen
Every writer I know got their start in a library somewhere. We read a book, and we thought, 'I want to do that.'
Karin Slaughter
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.
Sam Smith
We got a chance to go and play in some places that the usual European tour by an American band didn't go to.
Jack Irons
Pearl Jam
I have always believed that one should not be scared of losing, I think that really is the key.
Imran Khan
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.
Odell Beckham, Jr.
I love Adele; she's a timeless, classic beauty. I think she's beautiful. She's just a real woman.
Zendaya
I was 19, and I thought I should settle down and get a real job, and what was I doing living this dream world?
Becky Lynch
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.
G. Edward Griffin
Growing up, I thought I was going to be Madonna. I wanted to be a pop star. I wanted to dance and sing.
Natalie Maines
If I'm on holiday, I'm active on the beach, I play tennis, I run, I swim a lot. It's just about making the workouts fun, I think, and then it doesn't really feel that bad.
Candice Swanepoel
You do a show to be a hit and hopefully run a couple of years.
Harold Prince
The key question to keep asking is, Are you spending your time on the right things? Because time is all you have.'
Randy Pausch
The media's image of us is as animals, and we were never that to me. I knew love from black folks.
James McBride
In late 1999, I was walking down Ventura Boulevard in Sherman Oaks with my late producing partner Sharyn Lane after a day of editing 'Sordid Lives.' We passed the Psychic Book Store and decided to go in and get a reading. We weren't believers, but what the hell? We needed a sign.
Del Shores
You take a book, and what can you do with a book? Can you cook an egg on a book? No. Can you dig a hole? No. Is it a good weapon? No. The fact that it's good for nothing kind of makes it almost all-important.
Etgar Keret
For years, we have had many coaches in football, but there are no teachers anymore. And you see that in the play itself.
Johan Cruyff
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.
Kevin Macdonald