Kieran Culkin Quotes
I think people are going to keep asking me about Macaulay. Some things change and some things don't.
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I love the immediacy of an audience being there and reacting. I'm spoiled, having grown up in theater.
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If you date one woman a year, times 10 years, and that's 10 women.
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Once I discovered how important writing music was to me and just what a huge weight it lifted off of me, I knew that it was going to be the biggest part of my life, the biggest love of my life, the biggest thing in my life.
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I have a classic taste with a twist, because classic never goes away.
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I never really address myself to any image anybody has of me. That's like fighting with ghosts.
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I used to dream of some kind of way that you could carry a phone with you - but I never thought I would see it in my lifetime. It doesn't matter nowadays if you are caught in traffic or got lost on the way somewhere. You can just send a text and the recipient will know that you haven't fallen under a bus.
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There's no greater feeling in the world than when you can put a smile on somebody's face just by walking into a room. It's unbelievable. And if I have that power, who am I to waste it, you know?
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I sound like a chain-smoking drag queen after a hard night of singing 'Tie a Yellow Ribbon'.
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Continuous persecution of widows and orphans is a crime. Even the Bible says there is a specific place in hell for those who oppress widows.
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If you saw pictures of me as a kid, you'd laugh because I was always in football kit.
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I placed my new novel, 'The Book of Lost Fragrances', in Paris, knowing it would be a challenge. But the book belonged in the city that is one of the greatest perfume capitals of the world and has been since for more than three centuries.
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Opera was the cinema of its time, so to bring back that popular appeal, you just need to unleash its visceral immediacy and excitement. Most productions don't manage that - but when an opera does do it, you never forget it.
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A revolution is a struggle to the death between the future and the past.
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For me, with music, there is no half-stepping. This is my calling.
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Democratic accountability means that governments must be popularly accepted, with citizens empowered to replace corrupt or incompetent rulers.
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The war against terrorism is a war against those who engage in torture.
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Our evolution could have gone in different directions a lot of times. We could have gone extinct at some points. We might not have gotten our big brains, or Neanderthals might have made it while we did not.
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I don't want to rap forever. But I want to be rich forever.
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If you don't say anything, you won't be called on to repeat it.
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Of one thing I am certain: we are foolish if we think we will achieve change by sending the same crowd of people back to run our government again and again.
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It's the weird thing Eton does - you're at school next to lords and earls and, in my case, Prince William, so you end up being used to dealing with those sorts of people.
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I can bulk up very fast. I can lift heavy weights because, like most people, I started off with heavy workouts. That's stayed in my muscle memory. I feel horrible when I feel my jeans are getting tight. Workouts peace me out.
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I think people are going to keep asking me about Macaulay. Some things change and some things don't.
