Kevin Macdonald Quotes
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Getting pummelled is better than not playing anything at all.
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I like the idea of being so passionate about everything I do and the fact that I might wake up tomorrow and say 'I want to be a chef,' and just pour myself into that.
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I was raised doing martial arts.
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I liked to be around my friends, but my dad was out there, day in and day out.
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I wish I could play the World Cup; that's one of my dreams.
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We all have different things that make us strong and weak, but if we communicate and we really open ourselves and open our hearts, you're going to be amazed by the things that you can learn.
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Political ideology can corrupt the mind, and science.
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It wasn't easy getting 'GoodFellas' started.
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It's a very enticing, very seductive place, but once you get to know what L.A.'s really like, you don't want to live there.
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One thing I love about Christmas music is that it has a tradition of warmth.
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Verbosity leads to unclear, inarticulate things.
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I'm terrible remembering lyrics. Before a tour, I have to remind myself. I have to go through the songs.
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Frankly, most of my friends hold very different political beliefs. It's just a funny thing in this country that supposedly you can't sit down and have dinner and enjoy another person's company if you don't have the same beliefs. It's ridiculous.
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A gang is the same as a wolf pack; gang members do not use their energies in friendship with one another, for they do not know what friendship is. If they are united, it is by the common bond of a desire to attack their world.
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I was always a big fan of Charlie Chaplin movies. I love 'The Great Dictator' and 'City Lights.'
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I'll come to you with gifts of knowledge, wisdom and truth.
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I don't believe we're the party of big business.
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Emotions are triggered by what we like to call emotionally competent stimuli, that is, objects or situations that can be real, like in front of you, or be in your mind when you think and you recall, and they act on brain devices that were designed by evolution.
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Humanitarian missions are little different from any other public enterprise, diplomacy included, which is susceptible of misinterpretation by the public, hence ultimately of failure.
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Art is one of the prime ways we have of opening ourselves and going beyond ourselves. That's what art is: it's the product of the human being in the world and imagination, all coming together.
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You're not going to be able to look like anyone else, no matter how hard you try, unless you're a mimic, then you're not acting, you're just mimicking. You can't go on being John Wayne, that's John Wayne. So you're not going to steal from John Wayne. I'm not going to steal from John Wayne and you're not going to come back and say 'Didn't you get that from the circus?' You know. But he is one of those people who instructs me, whom I look up to - whom I think is one of the masters of his craft that I am so enamoured of.
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Any actor will tell you there's more of a schedule to doing a television show. That's why you'll notice a lot of big movie actors are doing television, and they'll tell you, it's because of the schedule.
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I started as a documentary maker, and they're my first love.
