Kelly Macdonald Quotes
L.A. is brilliant, but however long my trip is I'm always ready to leave. But New York I'm never quite happy to see the back of.
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I've ended up on some website list or some other list for super right-wing people. They've been tweeting some pretty rude stuff at me, so I think there's a sect of America out there that doesn't like certain opinions and can really take their claws out when they don't like what you're saying.
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I want to continue to be me and share with people.
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Any manager can do well in an expanding market.
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Never hire someone who knows less than you do about what he's hired to do.
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The Carnegie Foundation is well aware of the fact that their reports frequently find their way to dusty archives in academic institutions, but occasionally people pick up a segment of a report and act upon it.
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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'm not shy about trying to find what truth there is in any genre, whether that be an action piece, a sci-fi piece, a small indie film, or a play. I'm open to it all.
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I've always had that maternal thing: that connection with street kids and people who are misfits.
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Old people are scary. And I have to face it. I am old and I am scary.
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There's almost no author alive who isn't weathering the tumultuous changes in the publishing industry.
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I am a scientist. Mine is a professional world that achieves great things for humanity.
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I've had a good life, and was born to and among people I've admired and loved.
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If you kill someone, it shows that you are afraid of that person.
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When you're in the music business, everything is very personal, because you are invested in everything; there's a very deep, personal attachment to your music.
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As a child, I had the opportunity to meet the captain onboard a British Airways flight. It was so exciting to see the cockpit and controls. I was in awe of the captain, and he stamped my log book, which I still have to this day.
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Too many actors get on an ego trip and won't do commercials, so they sit around for 20 years between jobs.
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The fact that we're protected under that Constitution in exercising the right of free speech, it's a wonderful thing. You've got to come from somewhere else to realize how valuable it is.
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If I had my druthers, I would be a brain in a jar, with a burlap skirt around the cart I'm on - I don't attend to my physical being much.
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Anywhere in the world is a great gig if the people are pumped to hear some music.
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You know, I think that romance sort of coincides with effort, so you can fall flat on your face, but as long as you're making a great effort, I think it comes off as romantic.
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My biggest influences as an actor were Marlon Brando, and I really dug James Dean.
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The older I get and the longer I live in New York City, the more I have the desire to go elsewhere and be surrounded by nature.
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The voice I have now, I got the first time I sang in a movement meeting, after I got out of jail... and I'd never heard it before in my life.
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L.A. is brilliant, but however long my trip is I'm always ready to leave. But New York I'm never quite happy to see the back of.
