Kevin Macdonald Quotes
The Internet has meant that advertising has migrated; there are hardly any classifieds in newspapers any more because they're all online. If people have a car to sell, for example, they sell it online; they don't go to the newspaper.
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Any woman who wishes to smash into the world of men isn't very feminine.
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The earth laughs in flowers.
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We got orders to strike the Marshall and Gilbert Islands. We had a task force with the Enterprise. We had two or three cruisers and probably eight or 10 destroyers.
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I think as long as I have a creative outlet, I'm happy.
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Whatever they did for democracy, the U.S. interventions in the Middle East and the vaunted Arab Spring have proved to be pure hell for Arab Christians.
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My mother was against me being an artist. She just wanted me to marry a rich man.
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I have this first album that sells more than 100,000 copies in its first week, debuts at number two, goes gold, the single goes platinum, we're doing Madison Square Garden.
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Yes, politics IS war without bloodshed; and war is an extension of those politics.
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You get so weak from eating pears that you fall down, and then they come and take you away on a stretcher.
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People should have literary and cultural taste and should not bomb hotels.
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I am always worried that over-planning and outlining will kill the magic of writing; most of the world I created in 'California' occurred via good old sexy sentence-making.
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It's aggravating that Hollywood has never gotten credit for the role it played in promoting modern design.
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I am so clever that sometimes I don't understand a single word of what I am saying.
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I used to sit on the Circle Line and go 'round and 'round and write.
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If we mean to have heroes, statesmen and philosophers, we should have learned women.
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Things that appear on the front page of the newspaper as 'fact' are far more dangerous than the games played by a novelist, and can lead to wars.
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I do secret stand-up shows around New York. I announce and tweet this to nobody - I get onstage and I do a quick five minutes.
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A lot of followers would tell me, 'You've helped me through my depression or helped me stop cutting.' Something as easy as posting a video keeps them happy, or talking to them on Twitter helps them realize that what they're going through is temporary.
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As a creative person, you want to start with a blank canvas.
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Stay humble, be fearless, and work, work, work, work, work, work.
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I think comedy does have that powerful thing that doesn't seem too preachy because you're also making people laugh, so it's really kind of a good tool for messaging.
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The Internet has meant that advertising has migrated; there are hardly any classifieds in newspapers any more because they're all online. If people have a car to sell, for example, they sell it online; they don't go to the newspaper.
