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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It's my nature to run from relationships, because I have never seen a good one.
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In sports, as in love, one can never pretend.
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I don't know if I miss it per se, but I do miss the fact that there just doesn't seem to be any rock 'n' roll out there anyplace. Everything does seem kind of tame. It's even hard in Manhattan to go out and find a good band to go see.
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My father always told me that story was first and foremost. We would watch not just his films but a lot of classic American films. My father was a great David Lean fan, and David Lean's one of my favorite directors. We would discuss films endlessly.
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I think you can do a lot with fiction, and in some cases you can say even more in fiction than you can in straight-up documentary journalism.
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I started as a documentary maker, and they're my first love.
