Kelly Macdonald Quotes
When I started acting I knew nothing. It was a momentous decision to pick up the flyer for the 'Trainspotting' audition. 'Destined' is a bit of a poncy word for it, but I do think I was headed in that direction.
Quotes to Explore
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As a songwriter, pop music really is a love and a joy and a science, and I feel like a lot of people look at pop music with a very formulaic perspective in numbers and patterns, but an outsider would think that the process is very natural.
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What is all our histories, but God showing himself, shaking and trampling on everything that he has not planted.
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Inside every adult male is a denied little boy.
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Nashville is one of the greatest places for the best songwriters in the world. It's been fantastic to live there and to raise our family there. It's a great town.
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You're creating new things in movies and people are going to steal them.
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Properties have different characteristics, like companies, and the market throws up more opportunities because it is inefficient.
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Lyrically, I personally lean towards venting.
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I have this kind of mild nice-guy exterior, but inside my heart is like a steel trap.
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The biggest thrill in the world is entertaining the public, there is no bigger thrill than that.
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We have to believe in free-will. We've got no choice.
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No offense to music - thank you for Entertainer of the Year and all that stuff. But if you're a father or a mother, there's nothing that beats being a parent, and that's the best time of my life right there.
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After the revolution, it might very well remain necessary to place people where they could not do harm to others. But the one under restraint should be cut off from the rest of society as little as possible.
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The creative scientific process is - It's kind of - It's a windy road that has a trajectory, but it's a slow trajectory.
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I've always kept a low profile, and I like it that way.
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Even before I competed in the Olympics, I always wanted to write a book.
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I've been designing since I was 8. I started sketching dresses I could wear when skating. I was always involved in all aspects of skating, not just the technique, the choreography, the music, but the visual aspects, too - what I should wear.
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The easiest way around the bases is with one swing of the bat.
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The physics of water is central to cooking, because food is mostly water. All steak that you cook is actually boiled on the inside.
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Every time you finish a book, you have a terrible feeling that there's just never going to be another one. But fortunately, so far, the next one has always shown up.
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One thing I'm doing on the new Titanic recording is actually bringing in different acoustic spaces.
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I had never really felt settled in Brooklyn. I think it had to do with growing up in New Jersey and being someone who her whole life wanted to live in the city, and the city meant Manhattan.
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I've lived a slower and less expensive life going off the grid, and I'm happier because of it.
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I'm interested in beauty more than anything else.
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When I started acting I knew nothing. It was a momentous decision to pick up the flyer for the 'Trainspotting' audition. 'Destined' is a bit of a poncy word for it, but I do think I was headed in that direction.
