Kevin Macdonald Quotes
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Everybody wants to laugh - you know that. They need to laugh... people need to laugh.
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Privacy is not explicitly spelled out in the Constitution as freedom of speech is in the First Amendment.
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I really like having a life outside work. I sometimes wish I did more career stuff and was in that Hollywood scene a bit more. But Toronto's my home.
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I like being my age. I kind of have a political thing about it.
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There will be the 5% on the fringe of any hardcore fanbase that get angry about any change you make to the source material. The truth is that novels, games, comics, and what-have-you are not usually ready to be slapped up on screen as-is.
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I went to an all-girls Catholic high school. The three things that they focused on were reading, writing, and arithmetic. My goodness, this is a novel idea in this modern society. I was really good at all three of these things. I was particularly good at math.
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Sexuality is one of the biggest parts of who we are.
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As cliched as it sounds, I'm taking every day as it comes.
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Searches of al Qaeda sites in Afghanistan, undertaken since American-backed forces took control there, are not known to have turned up a significant cache of nuclear materials.
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It is vital that Iraq and the United States together send the clearest possible signal that those who commit acts of violence against American military forces and American civilians will not be rewarded with amnesty.
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I use more makeup now then I did before. I didn't use to wear really that much, and I didn't know how to do makeup, but now I know how to do it a bit more. I can do eyes and makeup in general more. I do like my own lipstick as well.
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In the Senate, you can become one of the nation's leading voices on the issues.
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As we grow old, the beauty steals inward.
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Before 9/11, I was playing a wide range of characters. I would play a lover, a cop, a father. As long as I could create the illusion of the character, the part was given to me. But after 9/11, something changed. We became the villains, the bad guys. I don't mind to play the bad guy as long as the bad guy has a base.
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Any time you got nothing to do - and lots of time to do it - come on up.
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Men don't avoid successful women because they're jealous; they often do it to avoid being in competition with her next job promotion.
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I am always hearing from Israelis, 'Oh, CNN is anti-Israel,' or 'BBC is against us.' But no, they are reporting facts.
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Not a lot of people know this, but I'm very good at mathematics. When I was an angry teenager, I used to sit in my room and do quadratic equations to calm myself down.
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When you're playing the same dirty dozen night after night, the moments that keep it fresh are those when you just let go and trust everyone.
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The only times an Afro-American who was assaulted got away has been when he had a gun and used it in self-defense.
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The grim fact is that we prepare for war like precocious giants, and for peace like retarded pygmies.
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Sometimes I'm more true when I'm up onstage than I'm able to be in my regular life. It's not as exciting to be at home, but I've got to learn how to make that work, and then I will be an ordinary woman.
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PMA is the right mental attitude for each specific occasion. It has the power to attract the good and the beautiful. NMA repels them. It is a negative mental attitude that robs you of all that makes life worth living.
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Everyone's got to make one submarine drama in their life.
