Kevin Macdonald Quotes
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I think people can tell when you're pandering to them, and they feel insulted. I think that one thing that is really nice about the work that I do is that I can just sort of make mistakes or try out different ideas or be inconsistent and be vulnerable.
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I think watching Channing Tatum caress his Lego Oscar statue will be something I won't forget. Even if I try.
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Live theater to me is much more free than the movies or television.
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There is no bore like a clever bore.
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Leaders cannot work in a vacuum. They may take on larger, seemingly more important roles in an organization, but this does not exclude them from asking for and using feedback. In fact, a leader arguably needs feedback more so than anyone else. It's what helps a leader respond appropriately to events in pursuit of successful outcomes.
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I think I became a Catholic to annoy my father.
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The public will believe anything, so long as it is not founded on truth.
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I don't believe in an outside agent that creates the world, then walks away. But I feel very strongly there is an intelligence at work in every flower, in every blade of grass, in every cell of my body. And it is that intelligence that, I wouldn't say created the universe. It is creating the universe. It's an ongoing process.
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Lipgloss is my calling!
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Sometimes people say that coach is a winner, but everyone wants to win. You must know how to behave in victory and in defeat, to look after what is our sport, football.
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We read Robert Browning's poetry. Here we needed no guidance from the professor: the poems themselves were enough.
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I didn't know what a stockbroker was when I was eight, but I would just tell everybody that's what I was going to be.
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I have no superstitions. I don't have to have a Sunday outfit. I don't have socks or underwear I have to wear.
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I work with gold that holds our past and diamonds that see the future and rubies that long for love. It's just a way of telling a story.
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The philosopher proves that the philosopher exists. The poet merely enjoys existence.
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When they tried me out as a host on TV, I found that I just couldn't be that gregarious person. I was stranger than that.
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Most people die of a sort of creeping common sense, and discover when it is too late that the only things one never regrets are one's mistakes.
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The various forms of intellectual activity which together make up the culture of an age, move for the most part from different starting-points, and by unconnected roads.
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I love my life and my mistakes and my triumphs - all of it.
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It's really hard to be a story writer - no matter how much acclaim you get - and not write a novel.
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Look, boys, it ever strike you that the world not real at all? It ever strike you that we have the only mind in the world and you just thinking up everything else? Like me here, having the only mind in the world, and thinking up you people here, thinking up the war and all the houses and the ships and them in the harbour. That ever cross your mind?
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I like the fact that when you're put into a really extreme situation, you put everything else aside. You put your ego aside and get on with it, and I quite like that.
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For all laws are general judgements, or sentences of the legislator; as also every particular judgement is a law to him whose case is judged.
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Every film that is made about the past is always a reflection of the present.
