Kelly Macdonald Quotes
I spent pretty much all my wages from 'No Country For Old Men' on a pair of cowboy boots. They're ridiculous. It's like wearing two Christmas trees on my legs.
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I love Johnny Cash but I don't love country music that much.
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Among men, sex sometimes results in intimacy; among women, intimacy sometimes results in sex.
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It took me years to learn that sentences in fiction must do much more than stand around and look pretty.
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I guess my favorite artists are The White Stripes or Tom Waits. The more theatrical the music is, the more I get into it. I also like the quieter folk music, that kind of old-school rockabilly or country. I'm not really picky when it comes to music, as long as it's honest.
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Black people can be the most conservative, the most discriminating. Especially among ourselves. It wasn't white people who said all black men have to wear baggy jeans.
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Whenever you hear a man speak of his love for his country, it is a sign that he expects to be paid for it.
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I have yet to see a piece of writing, political or non-political, that doesn't have a slant. All writing slants the way a writer leans, and no man is born perpendicular, although many men are born upright.
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I've done a pretty good job of hitting 18-34-year-old males, and not such a good job of reaching kids. Disney has done a great job of reaching kids, but maybe not the 18-34-year-olds. I figure I can learn a lot from Disney, and maybe, I don't know, they can learn a lot from me.
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I find men terribly exciting, and any girl who says she doesn't is an anemic old maid, a streetwalker, or a saint.
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I see when men love women. They give them but a little of their lives. But women when they love give everything.
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I'm just an instant flirt with most people. I'm very cheeky.
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I don't belong to any country clubs. I don't have this big circle of friends. Where I make my friends is where I work.
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Nine per cent of my viewers are men, of which the majority is, I think, 45 to 50. I like to tell myself it's just my dad watching.
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With 'Pretty Girls,' I saw the opportunity to talk not just about crime but what crime leaves behind.
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Cuba came to be the last country to get rid of Spanish colonialism and the first to shake off the heinous imperialist tutelage.
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In the process of ego, in the process of lobbying and in the process of just criticising for stake of criticism or in the process of politicising, don't commit national crime. Don't prevent exploration in the country. Let us move ahead more aggressively; it is in the best interest of the country.
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I drive a 1965 Shelby Cobra. I love classic muscle cars.
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Perfection is not attainable, but if we chase perfection we can catch excellence.
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I don't sing country music because I'm not capable of singing other kinds of music; I sing it because I think it's the most beautiful kind of music there is.
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So many people think that if you're writing fantasy, it means you can just make everything up as you go. Want to add a dragon? Add a dragon! Want some magic? Throw it in. But the thing is, regardless of whether you're dealing with realism or fantasy, every world has rules. Make sure to establish a natural order.
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Tillman was from South Carolina, and as I hear the story he was concerned that the corporations, Republican corporations, were favorable toward blacks and he felt that there was a need to regulate them.
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My attitude goes back to my childhood. I used to audition for theatrical roles, and you can't stand out in a room full of ambitious eight-year-old girls by acting the wallflower. I realised then that I couldn't do things half-heartedly.
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I'm not a big traveller.
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I spent pretty much all my wages from 'No Country For Old Men' on a pair of cowboy boots. They're ridiculous. It's like wearing two Christmas trees on my legs.
