Kelly Macdonald Quotes
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Fulfilling your mission is one thing; vision is another, and having a commitment to something leads you to do better work.
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I'm the eldest at 51, and if the Stones can drag themselves around once more, then there's a few more albums in us.
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If you look at any other group of people suffering injustice, women are always in the worst situation within that group.
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Urban America is like a foreign country in a sense.
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I never personally complained; everybody else complained for me.
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Science does not know its debt to imagination.
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I have no doubt that Brian May would have had a brilliant career in science had he completed his Ph.D. in 1971.
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At the age of 16 I started performing with a dance band in the evenings and began earning more money than my father, but he was pleased for me.
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An enlarged global public society, with its many dissenting and corrective voices, can quickly call the bluff of lavishly credentialled and smug intellectual elites.
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I come from a poor family, so really, the culture I know best is the street, TV, school.
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I believe that Obamacare is bad for America.
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What do you mean you have my children at the police station? Why are my kids at the police station?
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We are ever striving after what is forbidden, and coveting what is denied us.
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To do justice to a lifelong dream of being a writer, I must give it the intense concentration and focus I gave to track. To do both with excellence is not possible. It is with a sense of sadness and joyous anticipation that I leave track and move on.
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I'm sure I wouldn't have been asked to judge the Man Booker if it weren't for 'Downton.'
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I have fun when I'm making music, and I want people to have fun when they listen to it.
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If you think about my filmography, I have never done a movie that a kid could go see, except for 'Iron Giant,' and I'm not even on the screen.
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I thought that maybe it is not so much, as he seems to think, that the world loses interest in female performers after they hit a certain age, than the performers lose interest in the world.
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Making books is a very specific kind of activity. It's not really a collection of your best pictures - although it is - but it's also a way of presenting your work so that it's not repetitive, so that it flows, and so that it makes sense in a book.
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Next time I do a play, I want to go out of town. I don't like the idea of opening in New York. I don't have to do theatre, but if you're going to do it, you should do it well. These days, everything has to be up and running in five minutes. As a result, the rehearsal time is missing.
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Friend, there's no greater investment in life than in being a people builder. Relationships are more important than our accomplishments.
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It can get a bit boring working on accents.
