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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I love Cameron Diaz, and I love Drew Barrymore.
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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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I was a cop in the Las Vegas Police Department in 1957. I was very young when I joined. But then I became a federal narcotics agent after that, in Vegas, and that propelled me into my future to fight the drug traffickers.
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Knowledge builds on the past and has its place. Wisdom is beyond time. It's the direct perception of reality as it is. And in this direct seeing of what is lies the potential of transformation-a transformation that is not merely a redecoration of the past but a transformation of humanity that embodies the eternally new.
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Oh, Cathy! Oh, my life! how can I bear it?" was the first sentence he uttered, in a tone that did not seek to disguise his despair. And now he stared at her so earnestly that I thought the very intensity of his gaze would bring tears into his eyes; but they burned with anguish: they did not melt.
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I really hate sitcoms on television with canned laughter and stuff. What really makes me laugh is the real-life stuff. I've got a dry sense of humor.
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Some nights, alone, he thinks of her, and some nights, alone, she thinks of him. Some night these thoughts, separated by miles and time zones, occur at the same objective moment, and Ray and Mirabelle are connected without ever knowing 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.
