Kelly Macdonald Quotes
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The good poet sticks to his real loves, those within the realm of possibility. He never tries to hold hands with God or the human race.
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I believe the United States is the greatest country on Earth. I really do.
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I'm doing exactly what I should be doing, every day on the road.
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I really want to play a superhero. I want to take the role-model thing up a notch. I've always been a fan of movies and TV, and to be able to play the ultimate TV superhero would be awesome.
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You try to live the experience but keep your feet on the ground, not let it go to your head, because that's when you start making mistakes.
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I've done a lot of plays before where I had to do a New York accent, but never a Philly one before. They do the rhotic 'r' - where you say the 'r' - where most New Yorkers don't.
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Negative publicity makes people forget your best times.
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That is something that my mother instilled in me at a very young age - to know my self-worth. And I have had times again and again in the fashion industry where all of that was tested and I rose to the occasion because I was told that I am worthy and I should be able to walk away from something that is not worthy of me.
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All blessings come to us through our Lord. He will teach us, for in beholding His life we find that He is the best example.
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Women are treated as unjustly in poetry as in life. The feminine ones are not idealistic, and the idealistic not feminine.
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We all have prejudices to dispel: the need to get away from thinking that 'I' am important and special and 'you' are not, and the frightened mindset that tells us that certain 'others' are of no consequence.
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Who is to say that 5 men 10 years ago were right whereas 5 men looking the other direction today are wrong.
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Seek not for fresher founts afar, just drop you bucket where you are.
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Growing up, a film was an action film or it was a comedy or it was romantic, but you don't really see such stark lines between genres nowadays.
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I've done a little directing, but I love acting more.
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Sublime is the dominion of the mind over the body, that, for a time, can make flesh and nerve impregnable, and string the sinews like steel, so that the weak become so mighty.
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'I’ve never seen a soft heart turn hard,' said Taleswapper. 'At least not without good reason.'
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I do not think we are deceived to grow, But that the crudest fancy, slightest show, Covers some separate truth that we may know.In the one Truth, each separate fact is true; Eternally in one I many view, And destinies through destiny pursue.
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I was getting a lot of really nasty feedback about my weight during 'Fargo,' which is unfortunate because I am statistically a completely average-size woman.
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If you're going to write about war, which my books are about, wars are nasty things. I think it's sort of a cheap, easy way out to write a war story in which no one ultimately dies.
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O Time! Time! how it brings forth and devours! And the roaring flood of existence rushes on forever similar, forever changing!
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Learn to see a problem from a higher level of understanding. Then, it dissolves before your eyes.
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My mother's illness fitted into this protest against the treatment of the sick who could not pay, the inefficiency of commercialism, the waste, the extravagance, and the poverty.
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Sometimes I bite off a fingernail to use as a toothpick. Nasty.
