Kevin Macdonald Quotes
I remember going to the university film club to see 'The Life And Death Of Colonel Blimp' one night and being bowled over. It was one of the most beautiful films I'd ever seen. And it felt so personal.
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I'm known for having crazy shoes. I have a total Napoleon complex - I'm only 5'4", and every heel I have is four inches or more.
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If I go on a diet and work out, I'm always in a bad mood. I'd rather be a little heavier but nice.
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I don't care about image and all that nonsense. I'm in sweat pants every day. I don't play the game at all.
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Sometimes a chord on a guitar will somehow spur some thought in your head, and you will write a song about it.
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I only buy a computer when it's two years old, after the glitches have been worked out.
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Introspection, or 'sitting in the silence,' is an unscientific way of trying to force apart the mind and senses, tied together by the life force. The contemplative mind, attempting its return to divinity, is constantly dragged back toward the senses by the life currents.
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In America it's live by the sword of freedom of expression and be will to die by it as well.
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Racism is unacceptable in the real world, and it's unacceptable online.
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Those of us born into vitalist and expressionist cultures must hope that governments will draw back from shutting down the modernist project of exploring, experimenting, and imagining - of voyaging into the unknown - that has been essential for rewarding lives.
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I can't think of anything worse than trying to schmooze someone with the idea that you're an actor.
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My wife will tell you that if you feel my hands before I walk on for a performance, you could chill a bottle of wine.
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Man, in his animal capacity, is qualified to subsist in every climate.
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I myself prefer my New Zealand eggs for breakfast.
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I've done the Rolling Stones eating each other.
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All the old great companies were run by guys who knew what an animator meant, and guys who knew how to draw. All the companies today are run by executives.
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Many ethnic minorities chafed at the postcolonial nationalism of India and Pakistan, and some rebelled.
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I wish I could play the World Cup; that's one of my dreams.
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The collective judgment of the electorate must be respected.
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No man has all the wisdom in the world; everyone has some.
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My own thinking has evolved. You find Africanisms in American speech. You find an African influence on United States culture. There are all kinds of Africanisms in America, as you would expect, if you really thought about it... That whole thing is much broader; the influence is much broader than I first understood.
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There's no limit to what free men and free women in a free market with free enterprise can accomplish when people are free to follow their dream.
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As long as movies are depressing, life isn't.
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Life is a challenge, we must take it.
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I remember going to the university film club to see 'The Life And Death Of Colonel Blimp' one night and being bowled over. It was one of the most beautiful films I'd ever seen. And it felt so personal.
