Kevin Macdonald Quotes

As a filmmaker, I'm interminably curious and nosy, but certain times you meet people and think, 'I don't want to push you too hard because I can see this is painful for you.'

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• I had no expectations of white people at all.

  

  Ta-Nehisi Coates
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• The most inspiring objects are books. I have about 5,000 volumes in my home library. It's an unending source of visuals and ideas.

  

  Maira Kalman
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  • Ideas
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• Most people are interested in seeing 27-year-old women who are in movies somehow connected to sex. It's interesting to everyone. Especially little movies that are having trouble getting made, there's always sex.

  

  Maggie Gyllenhaal
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• We're overpaying him, but he's worth it.

  

  Samuel Goldwyn
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• I'm a nationalist. I'm a patriot. Nothing is wrong. I'm a born Hindu. Nothing is wrong. So, I'm a Hindu nationalist, so yes, you can say I'm a Hindu nationalist because I am a born Hindu, I'm patriotic, so nothing is wrong in it.

  

  Narendra Modi
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• When you are a successful business person, you are only as good as your team. No one can do every deal alone.

  

  Magic Johnson
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• I am such a do-goody, people-pleasing kid - or I was - I don't think I've ever been fired, not even from an ice cream shop, magician for kids' parties, not even in my early jobs in radio.

  

  Ira Glass
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• I've pretty much behaved like a knucklehead my entire life.

  

  Cameron Diaz
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• I think 'Tap Dogs' has lasted so long because people have a natural interest in tap dancing. This form of dancing can't be dated, it's such an intriguing form of dance because the feet are also an an instrument.

  

  Adam Garcia
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• Though I am a Catholic, a professing one, I have serious doubts about the survival of the human personality after death.

  

  Taylor Caldwell
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• My dad was in the military, yeah. He was in the Air Force, and he was a doctor, so he would go places for six months here, and two years there. And I was home-schooled because I played the violin, and I did a lot of competitions.

  

  Felicia Day
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• I never thought of having cancer as something that was unfair. I just braced myself and tried to get through it.

  

  Sam Taylor-Wood
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• My parents' long and happy marriage was a great ideal to live up to, but a tough one.

  

  Olivia Williams
  • Up
  • Great
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• It only looks like I get to eat a lot of food on TV. I really just get the one bite and the crew and guests eat everything else.

  

  Rachael Ray
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• The great thing about writing compared to life is getting to tie things up.

  

  Kate Atkinson
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• I am not from a film family or a Mumbai girl. The probability of getting a second chance is low, and so one has to be more careful.

  

  Yami Gautam
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• I don't talk about political matters. That's not my department.

  

  Nancy Reagan
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  • Talk
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• I dreamed about this as a kid, that I would write - and people would read - a whole series of books. I feel accomplished, giddy, and tired. Mostly, though, I feel thankful. A trilogy is a huge investment on the part of author, publisher, and reader, and I'm grateful that so many people were willing to invest along with me.

  

  Rae Carson
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• Every president becomes a caricature. The press, partisans, late-night shows, and other arbiters of our culture these days boil down complicated and multi-faceted personalities into one-dimensional punchlines.

  

  Mark McKinnon
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• If you want to be respected by others the great thing is to respect yourself. Only by that, only by self-respect will you compel others to respect you.

  

  Fyodor Dostoevsky
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  • Respect

• I'm preparing to be a mother one day and I really wanted to get inside the mind of a mom.

  

  LeToya Luckett Destiny's Child
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  • Mom

• If it be not true to me, What care I how true it be.. Though it be not true to thee, It's gay and gospel truth to me.

  

  D. H. Lawrence
  • Truth
  • True
  • Care

• As a filmmaker, I'm interminably curious and nosy, but certain times you meet people and think, 'I don't want to push you too hard because I can see this is painful for you.'

  

  Kevin Macdonald
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