Kelly Macdonald Quotes
I've done TV and I've done film, and I'm not snobby about it. It's about the project.
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He who fears to weep, should learn to be kind to those who weep.
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I was lucky enough to go home and raise our babies.
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It's impossible for China to keep 10 to 15% growth annually. The economy needed to slow down, and we have to learn to slow down.
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My father was a lawyer.
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Democracy should be practiced not every six years, but every day.
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Millions of American families affected by debilitating diseases have new hope today after the U.S. House passed legislation to support potentially life-saving stem cell research.
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If I just did music, I might go insane. I need words; I need stories. And it's the same the other way around.
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I'd have loved to have appeared in 'Absolutely Fabulous' - that's one of my favourite shows.
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I love lamb shank. It's my favorite thing. You don't have it in America. It's a younger meat - it just falls off the bone - it's kind of like a roast. I really like blackened cod too.
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In 1921, Harry Houdini started his own film company called - wait for it - the Houdini Picture Corporation.
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I'm a terrific mimic, and you can feel my funny bone.
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It was Chicago with its World's Fair which vivified the national desire for civic beauty.
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A sudden intimacy occurs when someone does your hair.
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I try to travel as much as I can... I'm always looking for a reason to.
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My father was dark skinned because he was Tatar. Sometimes Tatars can look Brazilian.
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It's what every writer needs: a daybed.
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I grew up on a wide range of stuff. OutKast, they been around for over 20 years, and some of the L.A. cats like Defari, Dilated Peoples and Likwit Crew. I was always going to these shows and catching the KRS-One tennis ball, as he would throw those out, EPMD. I could go on and on.
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My parents are from the South - they were both born in Birmingham - so my dad saw R.E.M. really early on when they were playing college stuff in Athens. He had a bunch of their cassettes from the '80s, and when I was 8, 9, or 10, those were the sort of things that were around the cassette player in the living room.
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The biggest stress for me at New York Magazine was when I was a middle-of-the-pack editor, and I had no control over my own schedule.
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Coming up with novel ideas and converting them into real products has always been as natural as breathing for me.
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I'll probably pursue doing more movies, but not horror or movies with killers in them. I'll try to stick to happy movies. I want to act and direct like Jodie Foster. I admire her because she went to college and she's still doing the same thing.
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That's what everybody remembers. They don't remember how many medals I won in my career. They remember the 10s.
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The polarization of Congress; the decline of civility; and the rise of attack politics in the 1980s, the 1990s, and the early years of the new century are a blot on our political system and a disservice to the American people.
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I've done TV and I've done film, and I'm not snobby about it. It's about the project.
