Kevin Macdonald Quotes
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I wanted my children to have the same exposure to the water I had. My strongest memories of Northeast Harbor are going in a small Whaler with my dad, looking for osprey.
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I kind of lost interest in school. I was never really that interested anyway. I was never academic. I didn't really go to school as much as I should have.
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This little hobbit saves the world. The wizard kills the dragon and saves the town. So many people connect to that character; it doesn't matter if it's an elf or a hobbit or a dwarf. It doesn't matter. They're human in their heart and soul.
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I bite my nails. I've been chewing on them for years. As long as you don't chew through flesh it's all right.
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We are not going to turn our backs on people who have been persecuted, turn our backs on people who have been threatened by terror.
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Nearly everything you do is of no importance, but it is important that you do it.
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Few men desire liberty; most men wish only for a just master.
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I believe that of all the things I have done, exciting though many of them have been, there's no doubt in my mind that the most worthwhile have been the establishing of schools and hospitals, and the rebuilding of monasteries in the mountains.
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'Hellraiser' is an amazing world that Clive Barker created, and it is such a beautifully vibrant and surreal world within which to work. It is also not an undaunting canvas. It is a canvas created by an artist.
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Renouncement: the heroism of mediocrity.
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People do not lack strength; they lack will.
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I was sick and tired of being an English actor who did a lot of American movies because I was cheap and good.
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I am not going to say much about the film 'Maidentrip,' but I won't be representing it, as I am not fully standing behind it.
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I love rock n' rollers.
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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.
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The poet speaks to all men of that other life of theirs that they have smothered and forgotten.
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I don't stop at my past; I like new work. I like what I'm doing tomorrow.
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There's something really fun about being scared, and I guess that was at least part of why I wanted to film certain scenes from my new book, 'Skeleton Creek.'
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The memories that I have are mostly at our old ranch, out in Agoura. We used to go out there every Saturday. I can smell the oak trees. I can see it so clearly.
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An idea is so impersonal; it is yours today and the whole world's tomorrow.
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Young people who are just starting out somehow need to let you know they know how to sing.
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It's okay to take yourself too seriously if you're a serious actor and you've got the scrubs on. And then with me, it's kind of like, well, I'm a comedian, I'm making fun of everybody and everything. And I'm making fun of myself. I'm having fun making fun of and for other people.
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Young people read their news online; they expect to get their news for free.
