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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If I have to draw attention away from some hormone-induced acne on my chin, I put on a lot of mascara.
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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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Blemishes are hid by night and every fault forgiven; darkness makes any woman fair.
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You never really get a chance to sit down with the people you love, unless you really make an effort to do it. It doesn't just happen naturally anymore.
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One of the things that's so striking about shamanism in the native context is the absence of mental illness.
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I start listening to something, or I'm seeing somebody a lot or seeing their art. And then I just really want to make a picture of them.
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The joy of art is particularly sweet, though, because it carries with it the threat of rejection, of failure, and of missed connections. It's precisely the high-wire act of "this might not work" that makes original art worth doing.
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The state of mind which enables a man to do work of this kind is akin to that of the religious worshiper or the lover; the daily effort comes from no deliberate intention or program, but straight from the heart.
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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.
