Kevin Macdonald Quotes
For me, the aim of making any film like this, any film about an artist, would be to send you back to the art.
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I know I should be Wonder Woman. They need an international actress - a fresh face. They need a woman who's tall, athletic and dark-haired - and an actress who can play the part. That's me. So, I'm coming to L.A. to work hard and meet the industry. And if 'Wonder Woman' comes together, I want it.
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My husband had a very strong identity and was successful in his life. Thank God for that. There's no way I can control him. I wouldn't stay married to him if I felt I could. I can readily take my business personality into the home. But he forces me to be a partner rather than the boss.
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A church is a place in which gentlemen who have never been to heaven brag about it to persons who will never get there.
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I don't have a telephone. If I had a lot of money, I wouldn't have one.
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With all the great products that are apparently out there that are undetectable, for me to take something like that... when people take things that now aren't even being tested for, does it make any sense?
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I did as much research as I could and I took ownership of this illness, because if you don't take care of your body, where are you going to live?
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I've had situations where producers would be like, 'Could you meet me? Take the train; don't tell your parents.'
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My mum and I do cardio kickboxing classes together.
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Upon the death of my father, our family and myself were emotionally and financially exhausted.
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If you like standup and decide that it's overtaking your life and want to hate it, watch 1,000 standup comedians who are trying to get on a TV show.
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I didn't want to write a biographie romancee especially since I already write novels, nor did I want to challenge the rules of the biography game, arbitrary as those rules might be.
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In business, every phase of things counts. Companies that just yell out a low price today to win business aren't going to make money in the long term.
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I went into the sciences very early on, but to me, economics pervades so much more of our lives and our existence.
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Gossip is easy, politics is hard.
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For most of my life, I have eaten to deal with stress.
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For the strikers, we have more freedom, and even when we lose the ball, if we press together, we can get it back, and it is good system for Chelsea.
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I try to play my game and that's being emotional because I'm that kind of guy.
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The Hit Stick is a tremendous invention. It really gave you control as a defensive player because most of the time, 'Madden' is such an offensive game. But the Hit Stick really gave you the opportunity to shine on defense for the first time.
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I am struck by how quickly I am prone to judgmentalism.
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If believers feel that their faith is trivialized and their true selves compromised by a society that will not give religious imperatives special weight, their problem is not that secularists are antidemocratic but that democracy is antiabsolutist.
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A great work of art is one that truly moves and inspires you. You yourself must be moved. Don't look at art with others' eyes. Don't listen to music with others' ears. You must react to art with your own feelings, your own heart and mind.
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There were the usual exhortations to purity – think of the novel not as your opportunity to get rich or famous but to wrestle, in your own way, with the titans of the form – exhortations poets don’t have to make, given the economic marginality of the art, an economic marginality that soon all literature will share.
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If we are to ensure that health care remains affordable and widely available for future generations, we need to rethink radically how we provide and manage it.
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For me, the aim of making any film like this, any film about an artist, would be to send you back to the art.
