Kelly Macdonald Quotes
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We are the only ones who really can care about the preservation Foreigners who come to excavate, maybe some of them care about preservation, but the majority care about discoveries.
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When I die, it will be a shipwreck, and as when a huge ship sinks, many people all around will be sucked down with it.
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All the women in my family are very dramatic by themselves. They make the biggest things out of nothing. I think that's where I learned a lot about being emotional.
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I think there are certain business matters which we must now conduct differently than we used to.
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I love working in Canada. The ovation is great. It makes me feel like I'm the top dog.
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I've always thought that we are what we remember, and the less we remember, the less we are.
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When we fled from the oppressions of kings and parliaments in Europe, to found this great Republic in America, we brought with us the laws and the liberties, which formed a part of our heritage as Britons.
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Everyone in the entertainment business gets crappy contracts when we start out, and into the middle of our careers. It's the nature of the business.
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Everybody's scared for their ass. There aren't too many people ready to die for racism. They'll kill for racism but they won't die for racism.
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I left school at 16 and my mother got me a job as a trainee wine taster. But one day I followed some girls into St Martin's art school and saw a voluptuous woman sitting on a stool being sketched. I decided to get myself fired.
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I know a lot of people that had one cancer that are not alive today. I've had three. So my glass is much more than half full.
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They say the promise of a witch is like a plain woman, seldom remembered.
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SMALL SONG The reeds give way to the windand give the wind away
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At this moment, the laurel bush, which had hitherto not spoken, said 'Psst!'
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3) Mother Nature doesn't care if you're having fun.
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What Kuwait did to the Palestinian people is worse than what has been done by Israel to Palestinians in the occupied territories.
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There is always something about our feeling for beautiful things which can neither be described nor communicated, which is unshared and unshareable.
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Take away from English authors their copyrights, and you would very soon take away from England her authors.
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The practical importance of the preservation of our forests is augmented by their relations to climate, soil and streams.
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Usually, you can shoot a movie in 10 or 12 weeks.
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Der, die, das, dem, den, des. German's six ways of saying 'the', like six sexual positions you never knew existed. Hey, I just sprung a boner.
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The face of "evil" is always the face of total need. A dope fiend is a man in total need of dope. Beyond a certain frequency need knows absolutely no limit or control. In the words of total need: "Wouldn't you?" Yes you would. You would lie, cheat, inform on your friends, steal, do anything to satisfy total need. Because you would be in a state of total sickness, total possession, and not in a position to act in any other way. Dope fiends are sick people who cannot act other than they do. A rabid dog cannot choose but bite.
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Having written both comedy and drama, comedy's harder because the fear of failure's so much stronger. When you write a scene and you see it cut together, and it doesn't make you laugh, it hurts in a way that failed drama doesn't. Failed drama, it's all, 'That's not that compelling,' but failed comedy just lays there.
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What I'm normally associated with are darker, more brooding roles.
